This week, Scott pays tribute to Congressman David Scott's decades of public service with a story you may not have heard before now.

Speaking with Pamela Lyle with the James Stewart Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and their effort to reunite a Purple Heart medal with the family of Atlanta native Raymond Leroy Mauldin. He was killed in action February 2, 1944, during the Battle of Anzio in Italy at the age of 19. The medal had been missing for four decades before it was discovered in a drawer as an estate was being settled. Private Mauldin's nephew, Gary Mauldin, had kept copious notes about the family history over the years, and those notes along with some intense digging by Pamela and her colleagues led to the opportunity to give the medal back to its rightful heirs in a private ceremony on May 2nd in Franklin, Georgia.

Georgia lawmakers approved a measure (HB 1193) that would put a literacy coach in every elementary school in the state more than thirteen-hundred of them. We speak with Dr. Lindee Morgan, the executive director of the Deal Center for Early Language and Literacy, to get a read on how those coaches will be trained and what they will do for Georgia children and the teachers who teach them. There is a big payoff at stake: children are expected to begin reading to learn after the third grade, and if they don't learn to read before then, they can be at a disadvantage that can stretch through a lifetime.

The pack date for this year's Vidalia onion crop is April 13th; that's the date the famously sweet onions can legally be shipped and sold. The Vidalia Onion Act of 1986 established the 20-county growing region and trademarked the onion name to ensure only the highest-quality onions reach consumers. Speaking here with Aries Haygood, co-owner of A&M Farms in Lyons, GA, just east of Vidalia, about what makes the region and the onions grown there special, and the role consumers have in extending the Vidalia season all the way to the edge of autumn. www.vidaliaonions.com www.vidaliaonion.org

For twenty-eight years, Sherry's Produce has been selling farm fresh fruits and vegetables to loyal customers from their stand in the corner of a parking lot at 3863 Lawrenceville Highway. Tina Dorsey helps run the business for her mom, Sherry Harris. When the strip mall and parking lot came up for sale, she tells the story of how neighbors and customers rallied to help raise thousands of dollar to help buy that corner lot when the owners came up short of the purchase price. And just last week, customers went to bat for the business again to make sure they could keep the parking spaces they needed. As one of their customers puts it, "It's all about community." (And the produce is

outstanding.)

To this day, it remains Georgia's worst aviation disaster. April 4, 1977. The crash of Southern Airways Flight 242 on a two-lane road in New Hope in Paulding County. Sixty-three people on the aircraft and nine people on the ground died that day. What aviation experts learned from the crash to make future flights safer and how the community came together to build a memorial to honor the victims and their loved ones. A memorial ceremony is planned for 11:30 AM April 4 at the site at 4235 Dallas Acworth Highway.

Speaking with Tom McCall, the president of the 300-thousand member Georgia Farm Bureau Federation about the realities of farming in this economic and political environment. And what Georgia farmers want more than anything else to be able to survive and thrive. Also, State Rep. Jutt Howard from Carrol County, one of the few fulltime farmers in the Georgia Legislature about what he is seeing in the challenging farm economy.

WSB Radio turns 104 years old on March 15, 2026. The north Georgia hydroelectric plants that powered the station had already been generating electricity for nearly a decade when it signed on the air. Speaking to Georgia Power Hydroelectric plant managers Greg Brown and Jimmy Packer from

Plant Tallulah at Tallulah Falls, Georgia. Here's how this century-old infrastructure is updated and

refurbished to generate even more power today with inputs that rival solar for efficiency.

Scott looks into the largest research ever constructed to find a treatment for young kids with autism.

While the building that houses the Prince Hall Masonic Temple and Lodge is getting ready to open to the public as part of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Park this spring, don't miss what was going on upstairs in that yellow brick building at 330 Auburn Avenue. WERD 860 AM radio became the first Black-owned, Black-operated radio station in America when it signed on in 1948. For the first time, Black Atlantans had an outlet for Black news, Black music, promoting Black businesses with Black station celebrities that galvanized the community. And when Dr. King moved his SCLC offices to the building in 1957, it hard-wired the station to become part of civil rights history. This week' Scott's speaking with AJC culture and race writer Ernie Suggs.