The Washington Town Council unanimously appointed former Mayor John Fox Sullivan last Wednesday to fill a vacant council seat after two other applicants withdrew from consideration.
Sullivan briefly addressed the council at the meeting, saying he would be honored to serve. He will carry out the remainder of former Vice Mayor Fred Catlin’s term after Catlin was appointed to the Architectural Review Board (ARB) in December.
The counci also unanimously named Sullivan as vice mayor.
February meeting, celebration
The next Town Council meeting has been moved to Monday, Feb. 16 at 5 p.m. After the meeting, a reception will be held at the Town Hall celebrating Presidents Day, commemorating the town’s namesake George Washington, according to the mayor.
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Ireland joined Foothills Forum as a full-time reporter in 2023 after graduating from the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication with a degree in journalism and minor in music. As a student, she gained valuable experience in reporter and editor positions at The Red & Black, an award-winning student newspaper, and contributed to Grady Newsource and the Athens Banner-Herald. She spent three years as an editorial assistant at Georgia Magazine, UGA’s quarterly alumni publication, and interned with The Bitter Southerner.
Growing up in a small town in Southeast Georgia, Ireland developed a deep appreciation for rural communities and the unique stories they have to tell. She completed undergraduate research on news deserts, ghost papers and the ways rural communities in Georgia are being forced to adapt to a lack of local news. This research further sparked her interest in a career contributing to the preservation of local and rural news.
