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The growing controversy over its planned annexation of the Highway 316 commercial corridor near Highway 81 has not caused the Winder City Council to retreat. At a meeting Tuesday night, the council unanimously approved five annexations, extended for seven months its contract with the business broker spearheading the initiative, and gave initial ... [Full Story »] 

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has sold two Peoples Bank buildings on North Broad Street in a package deal for $250,000. Local business broker Mike Rice told the Barrow Journal this week that the Barrow County based company, Matrix LLC, purchased the Peoples Bank headquarters building at 71 N. Broad St. and the adjacent two-story bank ... [Full Story »] 

Despite continued enrollment growth, the pace of spending by the Barrow County School System is slower now than it was at the same time last year. Chris Griner, executive director of Finance and Business Services, told the BOE that the system’s reserves as of Nov. 30 were about $7.4 million. That is about $1.4 million more than at the same ... [Full Story »] 

The special agent in charge of the Athens office of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation has accepted an offer to become the Winder Police Department’s second-in-command. Chief Dennis Dorsey introduced Jim Fullington to the Winder City Council at a meeting Monday. Fullington is retiring from the GBI on Dec. 31 and the following day will step ... [Full Story »]