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Bobbie Jo Sumner confers with her attorney Bubba Head. (File photo)

Updated: High profile cases to be heard Thursday

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Walter Geiger

Monday, June 26. 2017

Updated: 8 hours ago

Multiple high profile criminal cases are on the pre-trial docket for Lamar superior court June 29. Judge Bill Fears will preside.

Among those cases is a pre-trial hearing in the case of Bobbie Jo Sumner. [Full Story »]

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Whether dead from the 1864 train wreck are buried in Wadsworth Cemetery is disputed.

Updated: Engineer's account of Civil War train crash here

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Walter Geiger

Wednesday, June 21. 2017

Updated: 27 minutes ago

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By Walter Geiger

As the Lamar County commission prepared to hear arguments from Barnesville officials regarding the relocation of approximately 103 graves from the old Wadsworth Cemetery to Greenwood Cemetery for industrial purposes, a fascinating account has surfaced from the engineer of one of the trains involved in a horrific crash nearby during the Civil War.

The crash occurred Sept. 1, 1864 in Lavender’s Curve when a southbound train carrying wounded and a northbound train carrying supplies hit head on. There are differing opinions as to whether some of the at least 31 killed in the crash are buried in Wadsworth Cemetery.

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Food

Loaded Wedge Salad

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Walter Geiger

Tuesday, May 23. 2017

With iceberg lettuce, Vidalia onions, tomatoes and bacon on sale at Giant Mart this week, here's a winning recipe to try.

INGREDIENTS
2 tomatoes (about 8 ounces total), diced
Salt
1 small Vidalia onion, minced
White wine vinegar, for soaking onion
4 ounces sliced bacon, cut into 1/2 inch pieces
2 ounces fresh bread crumbs (about 1/2 cup)
Ground black pepper
2 ounces mild blue cheese
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 tablespoon fresh juice from 1 lemon
1 head iceberg lettuce, outer leaves discarded and quartered through core so that each quarter holds together
Minced chives, for garnish
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