Continuing with this edition, past newspaper front pages will highlight local news and history in Winder and Barrow County. This front page is from the Oct. 15, 1969 edition of The Winder News.
Candidates for Statham mayor and an open city council seat were in agreement Monday, Oct. 14, that the city’s audits and the water supply are critical issues.
The Come Alive Ministries Pregnancy Care Center in Winder hosted its annual "National Life Chain" event on Sunday, Oct. 6. About 70 people, representing different local churches, attended and stood along May Street holding "pro-life" signs.
A story about a lawsuit, involving former employee Carole Amos, the City of Statham and several individuals in the Sept. 25 edition of the Barrow News-Journal includes two errors.
The Statham City Council unanimously agreed to adopt the “rollback” millage rate Tuesday, Oct. 15.
It is the purpose of the Nativity Lutheran Church in Bethlehem to share the good news of Jesus Christ through worship, learning, witness and service. With that in mind, Patti Axel gave up her lengthy career as a registered nurse to become an ordained Lutheran minister.
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Early voting in upcoming the Statham and Winder municipal elections began Monday, Oct. 14, and runs through Friday, Nov. 1.
Ninth District Opportunity, Inc. is offering home heating help for the elderly and medically homebound for Banks, Barrow, Clarke, Dawson, Elbert, Forsyth, Franklin, Habersham, Hall, Hart, Jackson, Lumpkin, Madison, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Rabun, Stephens, Towns, Union and White counties.
The Barrow County Farm Bureau (BCFB) received four awards for its volunteer programs during the Georgia Farm Bureau (GFB) 4th District annual meeting, held Sept. 19 in Watkinsville. Douglas Garrison is the BCFB president.
As of 2 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation had still not released the identity of a body found floating in a Winder pond on Oct. 2 as it awaited complete results from its crime lab.
Bethlehem Christian Academy seniors Haylee Mezzles and Eli Parker were crowned the school's homecoming queen and king during the Knights' game against Augusta Prep on Friday, Oct. 4.
The court-ordered mediation between Barrow County and its municipalities over two unresolved service-delivery areas will be held Tuesday, Nov. 5, Bethlehem mayor Sandy McNab told the town council during its meeting Monday, Oct. 7.
In a brief meeting Thursday, Oct. 3, the Auburn City Council approved a pilot study — at an hourly rate, not to exceed $117,380 overall — to test equipment the city plans to use at its future water treatment plant.
Continuing with this edition, past newspaper front pages will highlight local news and history in Winder and Barrow County. This front page is from the Oct. 8, 1969 edition of The Winder News.
The Winder City Council, at its Tuesday, Oct. 8 meeting, approved a nearly $2 million agreement related to the city’s massive joint raw water reservoir project with the City of Auburn, which is scheduled to be constructed over the next few years.
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The Barrow County Board of Commissioners, at its Tuesday, Oct. 8 meeting, was supportive of a request to rezone property on Highway 211 just outside the Winder city limits to allow for the building of a residential subdivision with at least 220 homes. But the board opted to hold off on a vot…
The biggest challenge for the Barrow County School System may be finding enough bus drivers, superintendent Chris McMichael said Oct. 1 during his “state of education” talk to the Barrow County Chamber of Commerce.
Ninth District Opportunity, Inc. is offering home heating help for the elderly and medically homebound for Banks, Barrow, Clarke, Dawson, Elbert, Forsyth, Franklin, Habersham, Hall, Hart, Jackson, Lumpkin, Madison, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Rabun, Stephens, Towns, Union and White counties.
Preliminary testing results indicate that foul play "does not appear to be involved" in the death of a man who was found floating in a pond in Winder on Wednesday, Oct. 2.
A Braselton man was recently arrested during an investigation into statewide burglaries of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Management Areas.
The Barrow County Chamber of Commerce governmental affairs committee has announced candidate forums for the upcoming municipal elections in Statham and Winder.
Continuing with this edition, past newspaper front pages will highlight local news and history in Winder and Barrow County. This front page is from the Oct. 1, 1969 edition of The Winder News.
A shared investment in economic development between Barrow County and its cities and marketing the Center for Innovative Teaching as a community destination center were the top items from the Barrow Summit 2.0, held Sept. 24-25 at the Georgia Club in Statham.
The new Barrow County high school that will be adjacent to Sims Academy will be the Barrow Arts & Sciences Academy.
The First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), 275 North 5th Ave., Winder, and Winder-Barrow High School will co-host an “Out of the Darkness” community walk on Saturday, Sept. 28, in an effort to raise awareness of and contribute to prevention of suicide.
A contract for a private company to mow grass on rights-of-way along county-maintained roads and a pair of items related to the Victor Lord Park expansion project were among the topics discussed by the Barrow County Board of Commissioners during its monthly work session Tuesday, Sept. 24.
Continuing with this edition, past newspaper front pages will highlight local news and history in Winder and Barrow County. This front page is from the Sept. 24, 1969 edition of The Winder News.
The Barrow County Planning Commission has recommended the rezoning of property on Highway 211 just outside the Winder city limits that would allow for the building of a residential subdivision with about 200 single-family homes — about 50 fewer than the company looking to develop the propert…
The Barrow County Sheriff's Office is continuing its search for a missing man.
Both of Barrow County’s high schools beat the state average graduation rate in 2019.
A former Statham employee filed a lawsuit Sept. 9 in Barrow County Superior Court seeking compensatory and punitive damages for nude photos of her on a city computer.
Barrow County and its municipalities have been temporarily relieved of sanctions as the parties get set to begin court-ordered mediation over unresolved service-delivery issues.
An Auburn man was killed and two others were seriously injured after a wreck on Sept. 11 in the Braselton area.
When Johns Manville got set to begin operations at its brand-new Winder plant in July 1969, The Winder News reported the 340,000-square-foot, fiberglass insulation manufacturing facility was set to be completed that fall.
The Auburn City Council, at its Sept. 5 meeting, approved a balanced $6.17 million total operating budget for Fiscal Year 2020, a slightly less than 12-percent increase from the city’s budgeted expenditures for the current fiscal year.
The Statham City Council meeting devolved into a talking-over-each-other free-for-all for a few minutes Tuesday, Sept. 17.
Continuing with this edition, past newspaper front pages will highlight local news and history in Winder and Barrow County. This front page is from the Sept. 17, 1969 edition of The Winder News.
Mainstreet Newspapers is launching a new website starting Sept. 18.
Winder native Kenneth Lumpkin has been appointed to the Jackson EMC Foundation Board of Directors.
A Barrow County School System bus driver was arrested Tuesday, Sept. 17, after a gun was found in her purse.
The annual 9/11 ceremony at Bear Creek Middle School, organized by Barrow County Teacher of the Year David Kendrick, is because “this was before you were around.”
A Winder man was arrested for hit and run Monday, Sept. 16, following a vehicle accident on Highway 316 that left the driver of the other vehicle seriously injured.
Two female students fought in a hallway at Winder-Barrow High School Thursday, Sept. 5, and one suffered a fractured skull, setting off a social media frenzy over the incidents.
Continuing with this edition, past newspaper front pages will highlight local news and history in Winder and Barrow County. This front page is from the Sept. 10, 1969 edition of the Barrow News-Journal.
Barrow County plans to seek federal funding for a State Route 316/U.S. 29 corridor study and preliminary engineering for a project to widen a 7.2-mile stretch of Highway 211.
The Winder Downtown Development Authority, on Tuesday, Sept. 10, took the first step toward a new Division of Family and Children Services building near the current Social Security Administration facility.
The Winder City Council, on Tuesday, Sept. 10, unanimously passed a resolution signaling its support for locally-established building design standards for residential dwellings, a topic that has been a hot-button issue among the state legislature.
Four candidates qualified Sept. 3-5 for the special city council election in Statham. The election, to fill the seat vacated by Eddie Jackson, who is running for mayor, will be held Tuesday, Nov. 5, at the same time as the city’s general election.
The Upper Oconee Basin Water Authority agreed unanimously Aug. 28 to spend $521,810 on three drives to provide water to its customers.
A large crowd of about 200 turned out Saturday, Aug. 24, for the Barrow County Republican Party's annual barbecue fundraiser at the Winder Lions Club. The event is regarded as one of the top GOP events around the state and a frequent stop during campaign season by Republican candidates runni…
Aldo Chicas said he didn’t “think about ever applying for Georgia State” and now he plans to study film and audio at the school in the fall of 2021.
An Auburn man who shot and killed his neighbor and his dog in July 2017 has been sentenced to life in prison.
The Bethlehem Town Council will likely have more discussion at its Monday, Sept. 9 meeting of a request to annex property off Highway 316 into the town after Barrow County leaders aired their concerns about the request.
Barrow County School System superintendent Chris McMichael got a year’s extension on his contract and a pay raise Tuesday, Sept. 3, following a unanimous vote by the county board of education.
Grading much of the Park 53 industrial park property is a key priority for Barrow County leaders in Fiscal Year 2020, and officials are currently mulling over an engineering proposal for that task.
Barrow County may seek federal funding for a pair of transportation-related projects that the county’s public works director described to the county board of commissioners as “of the utmost importance.”
The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled that Paul Hamilton, the former Barrow County magistrate judge convicted last year for the 2015 murder of his nephew, is indeed entitled to a new trial.
The Barrow County Board of Education voted unanimously Tuesday, Sept. 3, to sell $22.9 million in bonds for school construction.
Continuing with this edition, past newspaper front pages will highlight local news and history in Winder and Barrow County. This front page is from the Sept. 3, 1969 edition of The Winder News.
The Georgia Department of Transportation announced on Aug. 23 the awarding of 13 construction contracts totaling more than $37 million around the state, including the realignment of the roadway and bridge on State Route 11 over the Apalachee River at the Barrow and Walton County line.
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