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City Lights vendor deadline extended

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Wednesday, June 18. 2008

The deadline for vendors for the June 28 City Lights Downtown Festival has been extended to 5:00 Friday afternoon. “We have about 35 vendors, counting food,” said Hasco Craver, executive director of the Downtown Development Authority, which sponsors the event. “Because of the volume of calls and emails over the past two days, the Commerce ... [Full Story »]

Fire training facility to cost $5.3 million

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Wednesday, June 18. 2008

Jackson County will spend $5.3 million to build a fire training facility. The board of commissioners approved a contract of that amount with New South Construction to serve as the construction manager Monday night. Firemen from across the county attended the BOC meeting but none spoke. The board’s vote on the contract was unanimous. The ... [Full Story »]

County residents to get watering relief

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Wednesday, June 18. 2008

Customers of the Jackson County Water and Sewerage Authority will soon be able to water their yards and wash their cars one day a week. When that one day arrives depends upon the last digit of a resident’s address, which means people living at addresses ending in zero or one may only water their yards or wash their cars from midnight to 10 ... [Full Story »]

Work begins on cable barrier project on I-85

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Wednesday, June 18. 2008

Work was scheduled to begin this week on the long-awaited cable barrier project on Interstate 85. The safety project, designed to stop crossover accidents in which vehicles traveling in one direction cross the median and run head-on into vehicles traveling the opposite direction, will run from State Route 20 in Gwinnett County to the Franklin ... [Full Story »]

$70,000 grant to help creat 'business development center'

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Wednesday, June 18. 2008

The Department of Agriculture is giving the Commerce Downtown Development Authority $70,000 to renovate its Pine Street building. The DDA officially accepted the grant last Wednesday after Margaret Duck of the USDA read the multi-page document. The authority voted to authorize Chairman Bob Sosebee and Executive Director Hasco Craver to execute ... [Full Story »]

Trying to keep at the speed limit

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Wednesday, June 18. 2008

Driving to and from Clayton both Saturday and Sunday, I decided to experiment on driving within the speed limit. In other words, I would drive like an old person. U.S. 441 is four-laned all the way to Clayton. Speed limits range from 45 miles per hour at Banks Crossing and in the towns of Baldwin, Cornelia, Tallulah Falls and Clayton to 55 mph ... [Full Story »]

Inquiring mind wants to know

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Wednesday, June 18. 2008

Why do so many pencils have lousy erasers these days? I bet you’ve been wondering about that too. I can’t be the only one — it’s too annoying. My own personal choice for worst erasers would be the ones that look exactly like the Ticonderoga pencil erasers but turn out to be hard as rocks, useless for anything unless you enjoy making ... [Full Story »]

City needs historic preservation ordinance

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Wednesday, June 18. 2008

Another historic Commerce building fell victim to “progress” this week, when the 132-year-old Pittman House was demolished to make room for the new Walgreens Pharmacy. The destruction of the house, not to mention the magnificent oak tree on the same lot, illustrates a critical local shortcoming — we have no means of protecting our ... [Full Story »]

Cable barriers on I-85

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Wednesday, June 18. 2008

The Georgia Department of Transportation started this week on a line of “cable barriers” designed to prevent deadly crossover accidents on Interstate 85. The barrier is being installed in the median of I-85 from State Route 20 in Gwinnett County all the way to the Franklin County line. As DOT projects go, the $6.5 million is very small, but ... [Full Story »]

Clair Gaus: How will you be remembererd?

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Wednesday, June 18. 2008

Few of us, upon our deaths, will receive the tributes and accolades similar to those given to the noted political journalist, Tim Russert, who died last week. Few of us have achieved the level of excellent in our professions which he had. Few of us have written best-selling books as he had. Few of us will be remembered for our humble beginnings ... [Full Story »]

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