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News from BarrowJournal - Topics from July, 2010

COLUMN: It’s time to speak up America

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Tuesday, July 13. 2010

I normally try not to write columns on serious topics. I believe everyone gets tired of news, politics, and the like sometimes, but today I need to get serious for a moment. This week, I wrote a column that was light hearted and had nothing to do with anything. I had every intent on publishing it, until last week’s column was posted online. ... [Full Story »]

LETTER: Doesn’t like negative slant on CRCT story

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Tuesday, July 13. 2010

Dear Editor: Your headline in last week’s Barrow Journal referencing the Barrow County School’s CRCT test scores, and the resulting article, showed a mirror image to what actually happened. While the headline read “CRCT results leave room for improvement”, your writer specifically reported improvement, when it was stated, “Still, ... [Full Story »]

Friend’s confession leads to arrest

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Monday, July 12. 2010

An honest admission by a Winder man earned him a citation, but landed his friend in jail. An officer stopped Thomas Consentino, 19, of 599 Mossy Trace in Winder, on North Broad Street near Ingles after noticing Consentino’s Chevrolet Silverado did not have an operative tag light. When the officer approached the vehicle, he noticed a strong ... [Full Story »]

Partner’s bar hopping leads to dispute

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Monday, July 12. 2010

Police were called to an Austin Way address in response to a physical altercation between a man and his partner. The victim said he and his partner, Anthony Robert Hobday, 39, of 320 Austin Way in Auburn, had been arguing because Hobday was hanging out at bars in Buckhead. During the argument, Hobday became angry and began hitting and ... [Full Story »]

COLUMN: Debt as a weapon

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Monday, July 12. 2010

What would happen if your mortgage holder arbitrarily decided you were no longer a worthy credit risk? What if you received notice one day that the entire balance of your mortgage or your credit card debt or your student loan was due in full immediately? For most people, it would mean economic ruin. The United States may one day find itself in ... [Full Story »]

Georgia Club honored by GAESP

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Monday, July 12. 2010

The Georgia Association of Elementary School Principals (GAESP) recently selected the Georgia Club Foundation as a 2010 recipient of the GAESP Educational Patron Award. The Georgia Club Foundation was one of four organizations statewide to receive the honor. Recipients of the award are eligible to compete for the Outstanding Patron Award that ... [Full Story »]

Vasectomy blamed for indecent exposure

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Sunday, July 11. 2010

A Jesup man was asked to leave an area gas station after the Sheriff’s Office received a complaint that the man was fondling himself in the parking lot. A deputy was dispatched to the Patrick Mill Road business after a witness advised seeing the man “playing with himself” in the cab of a commercial vehicle. The suspect was found sitting ... [Full Story »]

New E-SPLOST on primary ballot

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Sunday, July 11. 2010

As part of the July 20 election, local voters are being asked to approve a new education special purpose local option sales tax (E-SPLOST) which would go into effect when the current one expires. If passed, the new E-SPLOST would extend the current one percent E-SPLOST for an additional five years or until $54 million has been collected, ... [Full Story »]

COLUMN: Putting our broken lives into proper perspective

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Sunday, July 11. 2010

“Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.” – Zig Zigler If you haven’t been yet, go to failblog.org and thereifixedit.com. These are funny sites full of marvelous pictures of misspelled signs and botched attempts at doing and/or fixing things. They are also the story of the state of most of the Clark possessions currently. Yep! All ... [Full Story »]

More summer police patrols requested

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Sunday, July 11. 2010

Residents of an Auburn neighborhood attended the July 1 city council meeting to ask for increased police patrols to deal with unruly teens who are spending the summer nights roaming the streets and causing trouble. Former city councilman Charles Sewell and his brother, Ray, along with a woman who lives in the Heritage Way subdivision, said the ... [Full Story »]

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