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Property Owners Slow To Allow Access To Potential Resevoir Sites

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Wednesday, November 19. 2008

Officials trying to survey three potential sites for a Jackson County reservoir are finding folks reluctant to let them on their property. “We’re still working on getting permission to get on the property,” reported Rob MacPherson of Prime Engineering, the company conducting the water resources study for Jackson County. The goal of the ... [Full Story »]

Auto Industry Bailout: Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't

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Wednesday, November 19. 2008

Now here’s a conundrum: Do you allow the use of taxpayer dollars to bail out General Motors, Ford and Chrysler — to the tune of $25 billion? Philosophically, the easy answer is “No.” That was also the easy answer as financial institutions had their hands out. But, as they say, the devil is in the details — in this case, the details of ... [Full Story »]

Drugs Led To Deaths Of Madison County Pair

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Wednesday, November 19. 2008

Two people found dead off Hwy. 106 in Madison County in July died from narcotics abuse, according to Georgia Bureau of Investigation toxicology reports. Tammy Marie Denmark, 39, Lyons, and Timothy Lee Sorrow, 31, Pine Street, Ila, were both found dead July 27 in a wooded area north of Hull-Sanford Elementary School. “The autopsy reports ... [Full Story »]

Remember Those Growth Projections? Toss 'Em Out

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Wednesday, November 19. 2008

For the past two decades, every government entity in Jackson County was preoccupied with growth. We’ve watched Jackson’s rating among the fastest-growing counties climb and listened in awe as Frank Norton predicted that Maysville will have a population of 75,000 by 2020. Then the housing bubble burst, the credit market collapsed and the ... [Full Story »]

BJC Medical Center to quit delivering babies

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Angela Gary

Sunday, November 16. 2008

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Trying to shave its operating deficit, BJC Medical Center is closing its labor and delivery services, leaving three doctors scrambling to make alternative arrangements for patients. “December 9 is the absolute last day we will deliver a baby,” announced CEO Jim Yarborough. The cutback includes closing Commerce Women’s Clinic, a ... [Full Story »]

Budget woes could hit Commerce school staff, programs

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Friday, November 14. 2008

If the state’s revenue shortfall dips to what one expert expects it to, the budget ax could fall on programs and teachers at Commerce City Schools next year. “That’s where the money is,” city schools superintendent Dr. James E. “Mac” McCoy said as he passed the unsettling news along at the school board work session Thursday. ... [Full Story »]

Theft of $10 cooler gets 3 jailed for shoplifting

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Friday, November 14. 2008

A $10.70 cooler allegedly shoplifted from the Flying J Travel Plaza may end up costing three local people a whole lot more. The Commerce Police Department charged Marion Louise Bailey, 27, 1546 Historic Homer Hwy., Homer, James Robert McDaniel, 23, 118 Old Harden Orchard Rd., Commerce, and Tabitha Pearl Pinson, 19, 275 Rattle Trap Road, ... [Full Story »]

Local sign of healthcare meltdown

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Friday, November 14. 2008

BJC Medical Center announced that it is closing its obstetrics departments. After Dec. 9, no babies will be born at BJC. The hospital is caught by the twin pressures of a bad economy and inadequate reimbursements from Medicaid, and the problem is not limited to BJC. Medicaid patients who would normally go to BJC to have babies will go to ... [Full Story »]

Lori Martin named Commerece School System Teacher of the Year

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Friday, November 14. 2008

Commerce Middle School teacher Lori Martin was recognized as the city school system’s Teacher of the Year at Monday night’s school board meeting. The Board of Education also honored the Teachers of the Year from each school. Martin won the honor for the middle school while Mandy McEntyre (Commerce Primary School), Kim McCravy (Commerce ... [Full Story »]

Drought continues, but it's not on front burner

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Wednesday, November 12. 2008

Three feet more water and a year’s experience make a lot of difference. Although the area remains mired in the worst drought in state history, the angst about reservoir levels and water restrictions is nowhere near what it was just one year ago. On Nov. 7, 2007, the Bear Creek Reservoir was 12.78 feet below full and officials spoke in terms ... [Full Story »]

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