School system hit hard by gas inflation in 2021-22

Transportation director: ‘If it continues to rise, we’re going to have to do something’

  • Dawson Baker/The Hartwell Sun - A row of buses sits idle adjacent to Hart County High School. School officials say the school district was spending as much $9,200 on gas per week by the end of the school year.
    Dawson Baker/The Hartwell Sun - A row of buses sits idle adjacent to Hart County High School. School officials say the school district was spending as much $9,200 on gas per week by the end of the school year.

    By Dawson Baker

    Staff writer

    Most driving Americans have felt some pain at the pump caused by a steady increase in gas prices. As of Tuesday, May 27, the American Automobile Association (AAA) placed the…