News from BarrowJournal - Topics from July, 2012

Busy morning on final day of early voting

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BarrowJournal
Friday, July 27. 2012
About 110 early voters cast ballots on the final morning of early voting for the July 31 primaries and other elections. That brought to 1,667 the number of people voting in person as of noon Friday. That is off slightly from the 1,842 people who voted early and in person for the 2008 county primaries. The opportunity to cast advance absentee ... [Full Story »] 

GSP probing bike death

Posted by
BarrowJournal
Friday, July 27. 2012
The Georgia State Patrol confirmed it is investigating a hit-and-run accident on Wednesday that critically injured a Barrow County bicyclist. William C. Hubbard, 52, of Auburn, was airlifted from County Line Elementary School to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta around 9 a.m. on July 25 after witnesses found him lying unresponsive in the ... [Full Story »] 

GSP probing hit-and-run

Posted by
BarrowJournal
Friday, July 27. 2012
The Georgia State Patrol confirmed it is investigating a hit-and-run accident on Wednesday that critically injured a Barrow County bicyclist. William C. Hubbard, 52, of Auburn, was airlifted from County Line Elementary School to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta around 9 a.m. on July 25 after witnesses found him lying unresponsive in the ... [Full Story »] 

Historic Winder church destroyed in blaze

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BarrowJournal
Friday, July 27. 2012
A Thursday night fire, apparently caused by a lightning strike, destroyed a restored, historic church near downtown Winder. The Sanctuary of the Holy Spirit on Center Street is the site of the old Methodist church. The building was constructed in 1904 and was painstakingly restored by the current congregation several years ago. Winder fire ... [Full Story »] 

Budgets, Winder, Auburn and schools...

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BarrowJournal
Friday, July 27. 2012
Good grief! Will those sanctimonious public bureaucrats never learn? Even after several years of controversy over how the Barrow County government and the City of Winder have done their annual budget process, county officials apparently didn’t get the message. Rather than setting up a formal budget review process, county officials began their ... [Full Story »] 

Historic Winder church destroyed in blaze

Posted by
BarrowJournal
Friday, July 27. 2012
A Thursday night fire, apparently caused by a lightning strike, destroyed a restored, historic church near downtown Winder. The Sanctuary of the Holy Spirit on Center Street is the site of the old Methodist church. The building was constructed in 1904 and was painstakingly restored by the current congregation several years ago. Winder fire ... [Full Story »] 

Hacker tries to sway online poll

Posted by
BarrowJournal
Thursday, July 26. 2012
A hacker voted 43 times on Thursday for a candidate in the Barrow Journal's online poll for the state senate race in an apparent attempt to sway the poll's outcome. The votes, which came from a Monroe IP address, were deleted and the hacker barred from further participation in the poll. "Although the poll is informal, we don't want people ... [Full Story »] 

Hacker tries to sway online poll

Posted by
BarrowJournal
Thursday, July 26. 2012
A hacker voted 43 times on Thursday for a candidate in the Barrow Journal's online poll for the state senate race in an apparent attempt to sway the poll's outcome. The votes, which came from a Monroe IP address, were deleted and the hacker barred from further participation in the poll. "Although the poll is informal, we don't want people ... [Full Story »] 

Cops help mom with ‘pot farmer’ wannabe

Posted by
BarrowJournal
Thursday, July 26. 2012
A Braselton mom asked police for help for her teenage son — whose ambition in life is to become a “pot farmer,” according to an incident report. The mother said her 16-year-old son had been arrested in Auburn for marijuana possession, according to police. She explained that her son doesn’t listen to her and smokes pot all of the time. ... [Full Story »] 

Is new industry in the works?

Posted by
BarrowJournal
Wednesday, July 25. 2012
Five months after the announcement of plans by Caterpillar Inc. to bring more than 1,400 jobs to a new manufacturing facility five miles east of Statham, there are some encouraging signs of potential economic development activity in Barrow County. The Winder-Barrow Industrial Building Authority held a closed meeting early Tuesday morning to ... [Full Story »] 
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