RICHMOND HILL — Members of Richmond Hill City Council set the 2026 millage rate during a brief meeting Tuesday night after honoring Dr. Gloria Shearin and the late Billy Albritton, longtime residents whose service helped shape the city for decades. Shearin, a retired educator who is moving away from the area, spent four decades as a member of the Richmond Hill Garden Club and was a driving force behind a number of the club’s annual activities ranging from the Pumpkin Patch in October to its spring plant sale, Mayor Kristi Cox said. “She leaves Richmond Hill more beautiful and her garden club stronger than when she found it,” Cox said of Shearin, who was not present at Tuesday’s meeting. Albritton, who died in June at the age of 77, served on Richmond Hill City Council from 2004 to 2007 and was chairman of the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission when he passed, and Cox read a proclamation in his honor. Cox said Albritton treated everyone with “respect,” and approached “every responsibility with honesty and good faith,” and his service to the community “extended well beyond city hall.” He was a member of the Richmond Hill Lions Club, served as a volunteer with the Great Ogeechee Seafood Festival and supported the Relay for Life and American Society. Albritton, a Savannah native and member of the Georgia National Guard, moved to Richmond Hill with his wife Sheila in 1994, and was “known for his fairness, his integrity and his genuine care for the people of this city,” Cox…
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