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Auburn alert: vehicle fire

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Monday, January 10. 2011

Putting out a vehicle fire at County Line-Auburn Road and Mary Carter Road has added to the icy condition of the roads, and Barrow County Emergency Services is urging motorists to avoid the area. "Due to firefighting activity, the County Line-Auburn Road from Fourth Avenue to Mary Carter Road has become extremely dangerous," states a 1:11 p.m. ... [Full Story »]

Emergency Services operations on top of things

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Monday, January 10. 2011

Barrow County Emergency Services' pre-planning for the winter storm appears to be working well, according to a 9:13 a.m. press release issued by Lt. Scott Dakin. Instead of one battalion chief overseeing the entire county, the department has split the county into two coverage areas that will be overseen by two battalion chiefs throughout the ... [Full Story »]

Red Cross: 'Shelter in place' during power outage

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Monday, January 10. 2011

Barrow County Emergency Services Sunday night issued a press release about American Red Cross guidelines for opening shelters during a winter storm. "Typically, Red Cross does not open shelters for cold weather and power outages," the public notice states. "That decision is made at the chapter level on a case-by-case basis, but generally if the ... [Full Story »]

OPINION: Interview with homeschooled student Rachel Foy

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Monday, January 10. 2011

Every once in a while my husband will have a student in one of his college history courses that was homeschooled. Usually they are dual enrollment students, which means they are taking college courses during their high school years for early college credit. He has always said good things about these students, which is one of the reasons we know ... [Full Story »]

Bethlehem anxious for intersection upgrade

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Monday, January 10. 2011

Guy Herring has been a regular visitor to Bethlehem council meetings in recent months. The representative of McFarland, Dyer and Associates was back again Monday night to give the latest of a round of updates concerning the intersection improvements at Hwy. 11/ Star Street. “We’ve had two rounds of reviews with GDOT,” Herring said. “We ... [Full Story »]

Driver parks too close to police

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Monday, January 10. 2011

Officers from the Winder Police Department were at a gas station on East May Street New Year’s Day when a Dodge Caliber pulled into the parking lot and parked extremely close to the officers marked patrol vehicle. The driver, Zachary Lord, exited the vehicle carefully as to not hit the patrol car and went into the store where he began arguing ... [Full Story »]

Special Weather Advisory: Sleet Hazard

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Sunday, January 9. 2011

The National Weather Service in Atlanta issued a "significant weather advisory" for Barrow and other metro-Atlanta counties at 7:02 p.m. Monday. "National Weather Service Doppler Radar indicated a large area of moderate to occasionally briefly heavy sleet spreading northeast at 45 miles per hour across central and into North Central Georgia. ... [Full Story »]

Emergency Operations Center in operation at 10 p.m.

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Sunday, January 9. 2011

Barrow County Emergency Services is implementing a countywide plan to deal with the volume of calls expected over the next 24 hours during the winter storm. Its Emergency Operation Center will be activated at 10 p.m. tonight, according to a press release. The center will be staffed by three BCES officers who will manage public information ... [Full Story »]

OPINION: When too much is too much

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Sunday, January 9. 2011

TMI = Too much information. The malady afflicting our sensibilities as 24-hour news stations and online blogs add insult to injury to gossip to the point that fabrication clouds fact beyond recognition. It may have set the record for the longest personal opinion column in the history of printed news. Encompassing everything from the financial ... [Full Story »]

I-85 North Board of Realtors installs new officers

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Sunday, January 9. 2011

The I-85 North Board of Realtors recently named its officers for 2011 during a holiday brunch held at the Braselton-Stover House. Crystal Weise is the president for 2011. She has been a realtor for eight years and is a lifetime member of the Million Dollar Club. Weise has been with Keller Williams Lanier Partners in Braselton for a year, where ... [Full Story »]

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