Entries from February 2012

Thompson, Dragons shoot down North Murray

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MainStreetNewsSPORTS
Saturday, February 25. 2012
Jefferson guard scores 34 points to put Dragons in Sweet 16 If there seems to be a sense of urgency in Austin Thompson, there’s a reason. The Dragon senior shooting guard doesn’t want to play his last game. Thompson, who’s been red-hot in the postseason, dropped a career-high 34 points on North Murray Saturday night as Jefferson (20-9) ... [Full Story »] 

PHOTOS: Jefferson beats North Murray in state basketball tourney

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MainStreetNewsSPORTS
Saturday, February 25. 2012

Public auction targets property owners that owe taxes

Posted by
BraseltonNewsTODAY
Saturday, February 25. 2012
With a couple weeks before a public auction, those property owners who haven’t paid their property taxes on several commercial properties in West Jackson are paying their back taxes. The Jackson County Tax Commissioner’s Office is set to hold a delinquent property tax sale on Tuesday, March 6, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and continue to the ... [Full Story »] 

Ila to ask for cable franchise

Posted by
MadisonJournalTODAY
Saturday, February 25. 2012
The City of Ila plans to ask Charter Communications if they would be interested in a franchise agreement. The council asked city clerk Susan Steed to contact the cable company at their February meeting. Also during that meeting, the council heard that Mayor Mike Coile planned to send a letter to the Rural Development Committee (RDC) requesting ... [Full Story »] 

Benton: Changes continue for charter schools legislation

Posted by
BraseltonNewsTODAY
Saturday, February 25. 2012
Charter school advocates in the Georgia House of Representatives still lack the votes to push through a measure that would allow the creation of charter schools over the objection of local school boards. HR 1162 is a proposed constitutional amendment aimed at circumventing a Supreme Court ruling last year that said a state commission empowered ... [Full Story »] 

Grandmother accused of following relative

Posted by
BraseltonNewsTODAY
Saturday, February 25. 2012
An 18-year-old woman said her grandmother may be following her in a vehicle in the area, according to an incident report from the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office. The woman met a deputy at the Pilot Travel Center, Braselton, where she told the deputy that she had recently moved out of her parents’ house, although her family didn’t like ... [Full Story »] 

Granite Hotel a hostel for ghosts? Spirits said to haunt the old building; now where will they go?

Posted by
BarrowJournal
Saturday, February 25. 2012
The demolition of the century-old Granite Hotel in downtown Winder may be unleashing something that city officials haven’t put in the contingency plans. According to a night watch commander at the Barrow County Detention Center, the hotel built in 1899 out of blocks of granite may have harbored dead spirits – or worse – that shop owners ... [Full Story »] 

Advanced Placement results are mixed among local high schools

Posted by
BraseltonNewsTODAY
Saturday, February 25. 2012
When it comes to taking college-level courses, area high school students showed mixed results on their Advanced Placement (AP) exams in 2011. Overall, students at East Jackson Comprehensive High School fared worst among Jackson County’s four high schools as 78 out of 111 tests taken by 87 students scored only a 1 or 2 over nine AP exams in ... [Full Story »] 

Woman reports harassment by meat salesman

Posted by
MadisonJournalTODAY
Saturday, February 25. 2012
A woman on Oak Circle reported that one of two men who came to her house recently selling meat has been threatening her. According to the incident report, the woman said a black male and a white male came to her house to sell meat and she let them in her home. She said the black man took off his jacket while they were showing her the meat and ... [Full Story »] 

CHS: bettr than most on end-of-course tests

Posted by
CommerceNewsTODAY
Friday, February 24. 2012
Commerce High School students scored better than their peers across Georgia in first semester end-of-course tests for the 2011-12 school year. They bested the state mean score in seven of eight tests and had a higher passing rate than the Georgia average in all eight tests. CHS students fared worst in Math II, where their mean score was 407, ... [Full Story »] 
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