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Local schools look at issue concerning legal synthetic marijuana

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Monday, March 26. 2012

School leaders are trying to raise awareness about legal synthetic marijuana that is getting into the hands — and lungs — of local kids in grades as young as middle school. In a meeting last week, Russell Middle School principal Rob Johnson told other principals, parents and community members that the potentially lethal and otherwise ... [Full Story »]

BRIDGES: Extremism does have success in politics

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Saturday, March 24. 2012

YEARS FROM NOW, political historians will look back at the surprising popularity of 2012 Republican candidate Rick Santorum and try to determine why he had the level of success he has enjoyed. Regardless of what happened in Tuesday’s primary in Illinois, Santorum has far exceeded anyone’s expectations (including his own I would imagine) in ... [Full Story »]

Governor to welcome home local Guard unit

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Friday, March 23. 2012

Gov. Nathan Deal will be in Winder on Saturday, March 31, to welcome home the National Guard's 185th Black Hawk unit that has returned from Iraq. The event will be from 1-4 p.m. at Winder-Barrow High School's W. Clair Harris Stadium. To open the event, the Silver Wings demonstration parachute group from Fort Benning will make a jump into the ... [Full Story »]

Rezoning request heard for proposed rental development

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Friday, March 23. 2012

Auburn is one step closer to achieving its goal of being able to offer affordable rental housing to residents who claim the city as their home. At a March 15 meeting, the Auburn City Council heard a request by Brad Smith with TBG Residential real estate firm for the rezoning of an 11.08-acre parcel of land on Mount Moriah Road. The property, ... [Full Story »]

Winder PD to host fake pot awareness class

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Friday, March 23. 2012

The Winder Police Department will host a public forum April 24 to address a growing number of concerns regarding a substance being referred to as synthetic marijuana. The purpose of the forum is to invite all members of the community who wish to learn more about this topic and speak to them on what is being done to address it, a Winder Police ... [Full Story »]

Mayfield Dairy may reopen visitors center in Braselton

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Friday, March 23. 2012

Just five months after closing the doors to its visitors center in Braselton, officials from the parent company of Mayfield Dairy are discussing the possibility of reopening the facility. Officially, there’s no word on when — or if — the Mayfield Dairy Visitors Center in Braselton will potentially reopen, although representatives from ... [Full Story »]

GOP is killing its own chances at the White House

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Friday, March 23. 2012

There’s a lot of talk about March Madness going on, but I don’t think it has anything to do with basketball. The real madness now is the in-fighting of the Republican Party’s presidential campaigns. If there was ever a time that the out-of-power political party needed to be united it is this election. Under the Obama Administration, the ... [Full Story »]

Injured drunk driver found at a restaurant

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Thursday, March 22. 2012

An allegedly drunk driver was found in a Waffle House — apparently unaware that he was bleeding from the head following an accident, according to Braselton police. When police and EMS workers arrived at a Spout Springs Road location, they found a Hyundai Sonata that had crashed into a telephone pole, but its driver was missing. There was ... [Full Story »]

Deputies searching for missing Barrow man

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Thursday, March 22. 2012

The Barrow County Sheriff’s Office needs help in its search for a missing man — who was last seen on Monday afternoon walking on Freeman Johnson Road, toward Ga. Hwy. 211. Family members of James Gunter Sr., 51, contacted the sheriff’s office shortly after 4 p.m. on Tuesday, March 20, to report him as missing. The Barrow County ... [Full Story »]

Deputies still searching for missing Barrow man

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Thursday, March 22. 2012

Authorities are still looking for a man who went missing Monday afternoon where he was last seen walking on Freeman Johnson Road, toward Ga. Hwy. 211. Family members of James Gunter Sr., 51, contacted the sheriff’s office shortly after 4 p.m. on Tuesday, March 20, to report him as missing. The Barrow County Sheriff’s Office searched the ... [Full Story »]

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