Entries by Kerri Testement
BOE trims 44 positions with layoff plan
The Jackson County Board of Education approved a layoff plan on Monday that will cut 44 teaching and non-teaching positions from the district next school year. The Reduction in Force (RIF) plan is expected to save the school system $1.3 million in certified personnel costs in the 2011 fiscal year budget, which starts July 1. That amount doesn't ...
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More Jackson County school cuts looming; revenues down
The Jackson County School System is facing some grim financial news, the board of education learned on Monday. After cutting $4 million in its proposed 2009-2010 budget through layoffs, furloughs and closing the Regional Evening School, another $3 million cut may be needed. And that may still leave the school system with an estimated $2 million ...
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Deadly wreck slowed by haz mat clean-up
A deadly multi-vehicle accident in Jackson County on Interstate 85 under the Dry Pond Road bridge on Friday morning was slowed by a hazardous materials clean-up. All lanes opened at noon. The Georgia State Patrol confirmed at least one fatality in the southbound wreck, but didn’t have additional details available on the victim. However, the ...
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Judge: Hoschton must pay $230,000
A Superior Court judge has ruled that Hoschton must pay a development company almost $230,000 in a lawsuit centering on a new sewer pump station. Judge Currie Mingledorff ruled Friday that the city must pay Horizon Communities, LLC $191,631 for a new sewer pump station, and $38,347 in attorney’s fees and costs. Horizon Communities is building ...
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Water restrictions likely to end this week
The Jackson County ban on washing cars and using pressure washers will likely end this week, say officials of the Jackson County Water and Sewerage Authority. That won’t be a moment too soon for people answering the telephones at the authority’s Jefferson offices. “We’re getting bombarded with calls,” manager Eric Klerk told the ...
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Mother leaves crying baby in car at Braselton Library
A mother left her baby in a vehicle while visiting the Braselton Library, according to police. A witness told police that as she was leaving the library, she heard a small baby crying from inside a Volvo station wagon. The woman said there were no parents around the vehicle, which was turned off. Several other people then started gathering ...
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Cable-barrier stops potential I-85 collision
Braselton’s police chief thinks the new cable barriers on I-85 helped to prevent a deadly head-on collision on Monday afternoon.
“It did what it was supposed to do,” said police chief Terry Esco.
The recently-installed cable barriers were put to the test when a southbound 1996 Honda Accord apparently lost control and hit 10 metal poles supporting the cable system in Jackson County.
The vehicle landed with its top on the cable barrier. Its driver, Figueroa Alfredo Jr., Braselton, was taken to Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville, with non-life threatening injuries.
Braselton police said one tire on Alfredo’s vehicle completely lost its tread and another tire was damaged, which possibly contributed to the cause of the accident.
The wreck occurred between the Ga. Hwy. 60 bridge and Ga. Hwy. 53 in Braselton.
The Georgia Department of Transportation has been installing the cable barriers along I-85 in hopes of preventing deadly cross-over accidents on the interstate.
From The Braselton News.
“It did what it was supposed to do,” said police chief Terry Esco.
The recently-installed cable barriers were put to the test when a southbound 1996 Honda Accord apparently lost control and hit 10 metal poles supporting the cable system in Jackson County.
The vehicle landed with its top on the cable barrier. Its driver, Figueroa Alfredo Jr., Braselton, was taken to Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville, with non-life threatening injuries.
Braselton police said one tire on Alfredo’s vehicle completely lost its tread and another tire was damaged, which possibly contributed to the cause of the accident.
The wreck occurred between the Ga. Hwy. 60 bridge and Ga. Hwy. 53 in Braselton.
The Georgia Department of Transportation has been installing the cable barriers along I-85 in hopes of preventing deadly cross-over accidents on the interstate.
From The Braselton News.
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