Red Cross closes last regional office

First its Thomaston office shut down.Now, the American Red Cross is without a presence in the Lamar County area after its Griffin office was shut down due to a lack of funding.In 2008, the Thomaston office was closed and operations transferred to Griffin. Now the Griffin office has shut down and regional operations have been transferred to Atlanta.Red Cross officials may be contacted at 1-800-REDCROSS or through the agency’s web site at http://www.redcross.org