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Randy Vining of Milner in the Predator kayak he designed. (Photo: Jason Arnold)

Updated: Local fisherman sees kayak he designed go to market

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Walter Geiger
Tuesday, June 18. 2013
Updated: 8 hours ago
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By Walter Geiger

Randy Vining of Milner saw a dream fulfilled last week when a fishing kayak line he helped design was introduced to the market for the first time.

Randy has vivid memories of fishing with his grandfather, Hugh Vining, in a jon boat on area rivers as a child. [Full Story »]
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Michael Rainer

New officer joins BPD

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Walter Geiger
Tuesday, June 18. 2013
Michael Rainer, 38, has joined the Barnesville police department as a patrol officer. [Full Story »]
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Lance (left) and Lawrence Austin don their Tech jerseys.

Updated: Austin twins commit to Tech

Posted by
Walter Geiger
Monday, June 17. 2013
Updated: 8 hours ago
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According to their Twitter accounts, Lance and Lawrence Austin have officially made early commitments to attend school and play football at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. [Full Story »]
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Crime and Arrests

Sheriff Report

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Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 18. 2013
Between Saturday, June 8, and Friday, June 14, the Lamar County sheriff’s office made the following arrests: [Full Story »]
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Sports

Players are (front row l-r) Hunter Hubbard, Tadavius Chaney, Daylon Cauthen, Dalton Kelley, Hunter Cromer, (second row l-r) Austin Ziehme, James Nale, Bayle English, Jayden McDaniel, Braden Maisonet, Tymon Thomas, Samuel Blevins, (back row l-r) coaches Anna Maisonet, Kelby Huggins, Danny English and Marshall Woodall.

7/8 Lamar Braves win first place

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Walter Geiger
Thursday, June 13. 2013
The 7/8 Lamar Braves finished first place this year with a 9-2 record. The coaching staff was pleased with the way the players responded to the fundamentals that were taught.
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Opinion

Robert Heiney

NSA keeping you safe through your dishwasher

Posted by
Walter Geiger
Monday, June 17. 2013
By Robert Heiney

It’s fun to watch the blustering, posturing and outright lying when a big news story exposing some government malfeasance shows up on prime time. Amidst the recent revelations that the National Security Agency has been spying on millions of terrorists, oops, I mean American citizens, we find the usual federal government thugs. [Full Story »]
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Georgina and Bill Boggs are pictured in Barnesville with their children Nancy and Billy.

Updated: Boggs brushed history

Posted by
Walter Geiger
Monday, June 17. 2013
Updated: 1 day ago
By Sherri Ellington

Growing up in a small town in Newfoundland was just a normal childhood for Georgina Boggs – except the word “Titanic” could never be mentioned. Her father had unknowingly watched it sink.

“My father wasn’t a fisherman – none of his father’s sons followed in his footsteps – but he had a vessel he’d hire out to take people places,” she said. “They were out there watching her and didn’t know she had struck an iceberg. They heard the band and people singing and thought they were having a gorgeous time out there. He thought the flares they sent up were just to let the people know they were passing by.” [Full Story »]
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