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Statham police investigate home invasion

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Monday, July 9. 2012

Statham police are investigating a home invasion that happened around 11:25 a.m. Monday at a home on Noah Lane. A white male armed with a handgun and wearing a dark hoodie, ski mask and jeans entered the residence and took an unspecified amount of cash, police said, before fleeing in a dark-colored pick-up truck. The robbery is not believed to ... [Full Story »]

GOP forum tonight

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Monday, July 9. 2012

The second of three candidate forums sponsored by the Barrow County Republican Party will be tonight at 7 at Bramlett Elementary School's gymnasium. At the forum will be candidates in the races for the Barrow County Board of Education, Chief Magistrate, State House District 114 and Senate District 47. Since this forum is an outreach to voters ... [Full Story »]

PABIS: Introverts and Coffeeshops

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Saturday, July 7. 2012

It can only be divine intervention that has brought me to this café/coffeeshop this morning to write a column. Alone. Sans Children. Actually, it’s because my five-year-old is in camp, and my wonderful husband volunteered to take the two-year-old to the park. It has always been a dream of mine to be able to sit alone and write in a ... [Full Story »]

ObamaCare won’t solve the health care problem

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Friday, July 6. 2012

It was a surprise that the U.S. Supreme Court didn’t toss out the controversial ObamaCare law last week. Although many are trying to figure out exactly what the court’s unusual ruling might do about future issues, the one clear thing is that now the federal government will forever be entangled in the direct regulation and payment of health ... [Full Story »]

Mayor urges water conservation

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Wednesday, July 4. 2012

Winder Mayor David Maynard on Tuesday night issued an urgent plea for water customers to conserve water. Water usage is up, but the city’s resources are down. "The bottom line is I urge all of you to be as conservative with water as possible," Maynard said at the end of the regular meeting of the Winder City Council. He said the municipal ... [Full Story »]

Fire damages downtown building

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Tuesday, July 3. 2012

Firefighters are investigating the cause of a blaze that damaged an abandoned downtown Winder building on Tuesday morning. The Winder Fire Department extinguished the fire shortly after arriving to the building at the corner of East Athens and Broad Streets before 9 a.m. The fire reportedly started in an unoccupied section of the structure that ... [Full Story »]

Wiring malfunction blamed for morning fire

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Tuesday, July 3. 2012

An electrical wiring malfunction with a heating-and-air-conditioning unit caused the Tuesday morning fire that damaged the building on the corner of East Athens and Broad streets in downtown Winder. Winder Fire Chief Matt Whiting said the blaze, which was called in between 8:30 and 9 a.m., appeared to be an accident. No one was injured. ... [Full Story »]

Graham endorses T-SPLOST

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Tuesday, July 3. 2012

Two weeks after the current chairman of the Barrow County Board of Commissioners made a surprise announcement opposing the regional transportation sales tax going before voters July 31, the person expected to be the next county chairman said she does support it. “I hope the voters in Barrow County will carefully examine the road projects that ... [Full Story »]

Airport issue a political ‘red herring?’

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Tuesday, July 3. 2012

With two former commissioners trying to reclaim their seats on the Barrow County Board of Commissioners, local bloggers are resurrecting the airport-expansion issue that in 2008 felled many county officials and the previous chairman of the Barrow County Board of Commissioners. But there have been at least two indications over the past week that ... [Full Story »]

Heat leads to 21 EMS calls over weekend

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Tuesday, July 3. 2012

Triple-digit temperatures over the weekend led to 21 calls for emergency medical assistance in Barrow County — most of them at the annual Fourth of July Festival in Auburn. “We had 21 heat-related calls, with the majority of them being in Auburn, due to the festival,” said Lt. Scott Dakin, spokesman for Barrow County Emergency Services. ... [Full Story »]

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