News from BarrowJournal - Topics from October, 2011

Spending issue raises more questions

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BarrowJournal
Wednesday, October 26. 2011
Questions raised last week about the purchasing policies of Barrow County’s government have raised new, and more troubling, issues. County staffers last week apparently lied to the county attorney, telling her that there is no county document that establishes a spending threshold for when the Barrow County Board of Commissioners must approve ... [Full Story »] 

Principals share views on upping test scores

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BarrowJournal
Wednesday, October 26. 2011
Principals of three Barrow County schools each gave 20-30 minute presentations Tuesday night to the Barrow County Board of Education addressing areas of school improvement. Cindy Propst of Bramlett Elementary School, Jan Masingill of Yargo Elementary School and Sheila Kahrs of Haymon-Morris Middle School shared their goals on how to increase ... [Full Story »] 

Recent BCSO arrests Oct. 17-23

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BarrowJournal
Wednesday, October 26. 2011
A man was arrested last week after he allegedly pointed a gun at his stepson at a Lokey’s Ridge Road, Bethlehem residence. No one was injured in the incident. According to a Barrow County Sheriff’s Office incident report, Derrick Vinson, 41, complied with responding officers’ commands on scene. They arrested him Oct. 18 and he was taken ... [Full Story »] 

Auburn City Council to consider using itself as contractor for renovation work

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BarrowJournal
Wednesday, October 26. 2011
The Auburn City Council discussed plans last week to complete the renovation and construction on the R and R Building at 16 College Street. Braselton architect Ben M. Carter with Carter, Watkins and Associates, the firm that will be handling the project, recommended Thursday to council that the city be its own general contractor and bid out a ... [Full Story »] 

How to vote in the Nov. 8 elections

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BarrowJournal
Tuesday, October 25. 2011
No matter where you live in Barrow County, you can vote in the countywide special election in the following ways: • VOTE EARLY: Go in person to the Barrow County Board of Elections & Registration Office at 233 E. Broad St. from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. any weekday between now and Nov. 4. An early voting location has been set up inside a training ... [Full Story »] 

Election board to hear challenges earlier than thought

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BarrowJournal
Monday, October 24. 2011
At the urging of a Georgia elections official, the Barrow County Board of Elections & Registration has moved up by weeks the hearing for 476 municipal voters whose registrations have been challenged. Monica Franklin, the interim elections superintendent for Barrow County, said the hearing is at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25, on the first floor of ... [Full Story »] 

Loganville man charged with Winder rape

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BarrowJournal
Monday, October 24. 2011
A Loganville man has been charged with rape by the Winder Police Department. According to a jail intake summary compiled by the Barrow County Sheriff's Office, Richard Harold Jackson, 26, of 4759 Bypass Road in Loganville, was arrested just before 5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 22. He is charged with rape, aggravated sodomy, four counts of battery ... [Full Story »] 

Winder mayor's race finance reports for Sept.

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BarrowJournal
Monday, October 24. 2011
Winder City Councilman David Maynard in September raised more money for his mayoral campaign than Mayor Chip Thompson. But most of the $3,050 in contributions to Maynard’s campaign came from entities related to his brother, Jerry Maynard, or from entities related to Wayne Bartlett, another one of the owners of Maynard & Bartlett Realty ... [Full Story »] 

Early voting begins in Barrow

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BarrowJournal
Saturday, October 22. 2011
In the first five days of early voting for the Nov. 8 elections, municipal and county voters cast 245 county or city ballots in the single polling place set up inside Barrow County’s government administration building on East Broad Street. County interim elections supervisor Monica Franklin said by the end of the day Friday, 150 ballots had ... [Full Story »] 

Judge upholds elections board decision on Eberhart

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BarrowJournal
Friday, October 21. 2011
Superior Court Judge Joseph Booth on Friday morning upheld the Oct. 4 decision of the Barrow County Board of Elections & Registration to affirm the residency of Winder City Councilman Charlie Eberhart. At the end of an hour-long hearing on the appeal filed by Eberhart’s political opponent, Jim Cooley, the judge said there is “ample ... [Full Story »] 
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