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Low blow: dog food becomes weapon in fight

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Friday, October 16. 2009

It’s not often that one uses dog food as a weapon, but that happened in a workplace fight in the parking lot at Presto’s convenience store last week. According to the Commerce Police Department, the fight was between two men on a delivery route. A 60-year-old white male was training a 36-year-old black male on the delivery route, and the ... [Full Story »]

The tragedy of dirt

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Friday, October 16. 2009

By Willis Cook Have you ever experienced a situation that suddenly made you change your opinion about something? Something that made you see things entirely differently? I heard someone tell a story about when his parents got electricity. It was in the 1940s and the REA (what we call the electric co-operative) was signing people up for electric ... [Full Story »]

Early voting under way

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Wednesday, October 14. 2009

Early voting for the Nov. 3 General Election is under way. For Commerce voters, it began last Tuesday and will continue through Friday, Oct. 30. All early voting takes place at City Hall during regular business hours, which are 8:30 to 4:00 Monday through Friday. There are four contested races on the ballot. For mayor pro tem, Keith Burchett ... [Full Story »]

Commerce cleanup week starts Monday

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Wednesday, October 14. 2009

It’s time to take out a year’s accumulation of trash. Commerce will hold its annual “Cleanup Week” next week, Oct. 19-23. That’s the one week a year when the city’s Public Works Department will pick up items other than leaves, limbs and yard trimmings. The department will pick up household items such as furniture, appliances, scrap ... [Full Story »]

City must get sewer problem resolved

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Wednesday, October 14. 2009

Mike Sullivan is, as Ward 3 city councilman Mark Fitzpatrick pointed out Monday night, a patient man. Probably too patient. Sullivan was back before the city council about a long-standing sewage problem that results in sewage backing up into his house during times of heavy rainfall. It’s a problem he’s endured for years. Perhaps had he been ... [Full Story »]

Woman reported missing was killed in wreck

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Wednesday, October 14. 2009

A Pendergrass man got the worst possible result after he reported his wife missing Sunday. The man came to the Commerce Police Station to report his wife missing after she came home from work Saturday, told her husband she was going out to eat and to a movie with a friend, but never came home. The friend told police that she last saw Jacqueline ... [Full Story »]

UPDATED: Early voting under way

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Wednesday, October 14. 2009

Early voting for the Nov. 3 General Election is under way. For Commerce voters, it began last Tuesday and will continue through Friday, Oct. 30. All early voting takes place at City Hall during regular business hours, which are 8:30 to 4:00 Monday through Friday. Early voting is absentee voting until the week of Oct. 26-30. Until that week, ... [Full Story »]

Drought legacy: water costs more

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Wednesday, October 7. 2009

Part of the legacy of the recent drought is that water providers, encouraged by the state, changed their rate structures and increased their water rates. Let the buyer beware. Before the drought, the more water you used, the less you paid per 1,000 gallons. But the Environmental Protection Division pushed water providers for “conservation ... [Full Story »]

PTO Fall Carnival is Saturday

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Wednesday, October 7. 2009

Commerce Primary School will hold its annual fall festival Saturday from 10 a.m. at the school. In addition to the traditional offerings — games, inflatables, hay rides, drawings, a car smash, cake walk and refreshments — the 2009 event features the inaugural Tiger Trot 5K road race and a fun run. Entertainment will include Dustin Wilkes, a ... [Full Story »]

Police delay man's visit with Obama

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Wednesday, October 7. 2009

The Commerce Police Department briefly detained a 55-year-old man who said he was on his way to meet President Barack Obama. Officers had received a call from the man advising that he was a federal employee conducting a speed survey on Interstate 85 and that he would allow no one doing 80-85 miles per hour to pass him. A Jefferson officer ... [Full Story »]

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