It's part of the post-thanksgiving tradition: gearing up to buy your Christmas tree.

If you're looking to get one the old fashioned way, then check out Sandy Creek Christmas Tree Farm in Twiggs County.

Claire Davis spent the afternoon there to learn more about what the farm has to offer and what families are doing to get ready for the holidays.

The Prine family is searching for the perfect Christmas Tree.

"One for the living room, one for my sons, the boys' bedroom and then one for the office," said Jay Prine.

For the second time this year, Georgia students will take the Milestones test.

It's a test the state uses to measure whether public schools are improving. It replaces several standardized tests that students took previously.

There is an ever-present buzzing noise at certain parts of Twiggs County's Middle-High school complex.

It may not be music to everyone's ears, but at that school, the low hum is the sound of progress.

"It's a complete HVAC renovation. We've pretty much taken the whole system completely out," Mike Harnage with Parrish Construction explains.

The company has replaced it with a new $1.5 million heating and cooling system funded in part through a penny sales tax.

"We started in mid-March and we'll finish up in about two more weeks, right before school starts," he said.

Twiggs Superintendent Elgin Dixon says the upgrades will make the school day more comfortable than the previous 24-year-old system allowed.

"They will be cool when it is hot and warm when it is cold," he said.