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Money to be hot topic at BOC Tuesday night

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Monday, March 12. 2012

The Barrow County Board of Commissioners at a regular meeting Tuesday night will take up some issues potentially affecting every taxpayer in the county. CFO Rose Kisaalita will clarify how close was her original $1 million projection of additional FY2011 reserve funds to the final audited figure. Also on the agenda will be a presentation by two ... [Full Story »]

Judge may be recused in alleged cop killer’s trial

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Monday, March 12. 2012

The judge who is presiding over accused cop killer Jamie Hood’s upcoming murder trial may be recused. In an appeal hearing Monday, Athens-Clarke County Superior Court Judge Lawton E. Stephens, who has presided over the hearings since August, granted Hood permission to file for his recusal. Stephens told Hood and his attorney, Christian Lamar, ... [Full Story »]

Bidding process may start soon for Braselton LifePath

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Sunday, March 11. 2012

By next month, it’s possible that the Braselton Community Improvement District (CID) will begin seeking bids to construct its LifePath. The 10 foot-wide multi-use path will accommodate pedestrians, cyclists and those driving golf carts or Segways on the LifePath — which will be installed in the existing rights-of-way along Ga. Hwy. 211 and ... [Full Story »]

Pant-less man near children arrested

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Saturday, March 10. 2012

A 49-year-old man was caught this week with his pants down near a public park in downtown Winder where kids were playing. Michael Lindsey Miller, of 120 2nd St., Winder, was arrested Monday after an off-duty Barrow County Sheriff’s deputy notified authorities to suspicious behavior happening near children. The deputy, who was with his family ... [Full Story »]

Auburn Boy Scout gets BSA's highest lifesaving award

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Friday, March 9. 2012

Eagle Scout Jonathan Bennett of Auburn-based Troop 774, received the highest lifesaving award the Boy Scouts of America gives during a ceremony at the Chattahooche District Round Table meeting on March 8. He was awarded the Honor Medal with Crossed Palms, which is given "for unusual heroism and extraordinary skill or resourcefulness in saving ... [Full Story »]

Government is a necessary evil

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Friday, March 9. 2012

I’m often accused of being critical of government. Guilty. While we cannot exist without government, it has gotten too big, too expensive and too self-serving at all levels. Government produces very little, yet today consumes a huge percentage of our economy. Government does not create any wealth — the private sector creates wealth by ... [Full Story »]

County looking for money to pay narrow-banding costs

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Friday, March 9. 2012

Nine months before the Jan. 1, 2013 deadline for the federally mandated narrow-banding of emergency communications systems, Barrow County officials have learned that the local cost will be much higher than earlier estimates. At this point there is little available funding for the $3.75 million project. So commission chairman Danny Yearwood is ... [Full Story »]

SINN-CLARK: How resilient are you?

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Thursday, March 8. 2012

“You can get sympathy or you can get better but you can’t get both.” — Mario Cortes How does adversity affect you? Do you have solid coping skills? How quickly do you bounce back after something upsets, angers or disappoints you? Are you easily hurt? Do you have trouble letting things go? Do you stew and obsess? These are the kinds of ... [Full Story »]

New Lanier Tech campus in Barrow looks to get funding

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Thursday, March 8. 2012

In timing that couldn’t be more perfect for Barrow County’s future, the most powerful money committee in the Georgia House of Representatives voted Monday to include in the state government’s FY2013 budget $16 million for the Winder-Barrow campus of Lanier Technical College. Rep. Terry England, who chairs that House Appropriations ... [Full Story »]

Winder approves new building, WPD dispatch change

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Thursday, March 8. 2012

The Winder City Council took care of some major items at its regular monthly meetings Monday and Tuesday. The council unanimously ratified the mayor’s March 3 bid to purchase at auction the Midland Avenue operations center of the former Peoples Bank. The facility is to become Winder’s new city hall sometime this summer. The council also ... [Full Story »]

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