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Chief Douglas Matthews and others try to calm a man who claimed he was thrown from a vehicle by others on Sims Street Tuesday evening. (Photo: Walter Geiger)

Man claims he was thrown from vehicle

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Walter Geiger

Tuesday, June 15. 2021

BPD officers and first responders were dispatched to Sims Street Tuesday afternoon where a man with a head injury claimed he had been pushed from a moving vehicle. At least one witness corroborated the man's claims.

He had an altered mental status and was uncooperative at times. Chief Douglas Matthews finally calmed the man, who may have been under the influence, somewhat. A Monroe County EMS unit was summoned to the scene to evaluate him.

The call was dispatched at about 5:30 p.m.

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Features

Duck Derby benefits B&G Club

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Walter Geiger

Thursday, June 10. 2021

Tickets are on sale for the annual Duck Derby which benefits the Boys & Girls Clubs of North Central Georgia of which the Barnesville club is affiliated. Tickets are $20 each. Each ticket number is assigned to one of 6,000 rubber ducks.

On Saturday, July 3, the ducks will be dumped into the Yellow River near Porterdale. The first duck to cross the finish line wins $10,000 for its sponsor. There are lesser prizes for second, third and fourth place.

Paper tickets are available from any B&G Club board member or online at bccncg.com. For more information, call Sandra Watts at 678.572.3156.

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COVID-19 Monitor

June 13: 1366 cases, 47 deaths

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Walter Geiger

Sunday, June 13. 2021

Lamar County held at 1366 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 47 deaths as of the June 13 case count update from DPH. Lamar has recorded 125 hospitalizations.

Lamar deaths include: (latest) white female (57), black female (78), white male (63), black female (82), black female (68), black male (59), white male (82), white female (71), white male (70), white female (74), white male (78), black male (62); white female (73), white male (66); white male (81); black male (67); black male (64); white male (85); white male (81); white male (60); white female (80); black male (53) white male (81); white male (70); white male (86); black female (84); white female (68); black female (73); black male (90+); white male (69); white male (73); white male (55): white female (88); black female (66); white female (70); white female, (72); white male (80); black male (49); white female (81); white female (83); white male (87); white female (88); white male (86); white female (85); white female (74); black female (87); white male (85).

Statewide there have been 899,433 confirmed cases with 64,375 hospitalizations and 18,300 deaths.

Surrounding counties:

Pike: 1098 cases, 76 hospitalizations and 28 deaths.
Upson: 1835 cases, 181 hospitalizations and 112 deaths.
Monroe: 1916 cases, 200 hospitalizations and 88 deaths.
Butts: 2374 cases, 138 hospitalizations and 81 deaths.
Spalding: 4220 cases, 481 hospitalizations and 167 deaths.

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Sports

LC's Aniya Barron (16) was named Region 3AA Player of the Year. (File)

LC soccer standouts lauded

Posted by

Walter Geiger

Wednesday, June 9. 2021

At the end of another highly successful season, the LC soccer program presented awards to players on the middle and high school teams at a ceremony held last month. The winners were:

LCMS Girls:
Wren Lonberg, most valuable player; Jenny Beverly, best defensive player; Ava Bushby, best offensive player; M’Kenzie Smith, most improved; Ava Lonberg, Fearless Trojan award; and Giada Ritch, coach’s’ award.
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Opinion

Let's face it

Posted by

Walter Geiger

Wednesday, June 9. 2021

The Bible doesn’t offer an objective account of the events it narrates. It doesn’t intend to do so. Its presentation of those events is agenda-driven.

Those who passed along, preserved, wrote, edited, and compiled what we have in our Bibles believed that God was involved in the stories they recorded. God’s involvement in the history of ancient Israel, in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, and in the establishing and development of the early church is the subject matter of the Bible. As the Gospel of John says about its contents, “These are written so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name” (20:31). What John says of Jesus, all of the biblical writers, editors, and compilers would say about what they produced: “We have said these things in these ways so that you might believe that God involves God’s self in the world and in our lives.”
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