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Entries from March 2009

Spring has sprung (according to the clocks)

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Sunday, March 8. 2009

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This year, U.S. clocks spring forward an hour at 2 a.m. local time on March 8. [Full Story »]

Spring forward tonight

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Walter Geiger

in Top Stories

Saturday, March 7. 2009

Don't forget to set your clocks forward one hour before retiring tonight for Daylight Savings Time. [Full Story »]

Shots fired; alleged shooters crash car

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Walter Geiger

in Crime, News, Top Stories

Saturday, March 7. 2009

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More wanton violence erupted in Barnesville today when shots were fired in the area of Sims Street, Johnstonville Road and Crawford Road. No one was hit by the gunfire but two people were injured in a subsequent car crash in which a vehicle overturned. [Full Story »]

Tough choice: beer or energy

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Friday, March 6. 2009

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Local Jason Byars talks beer with CNN. [Full Story »]

Two busted for meth

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Walter Geiger

in Crime, News

Friday, March 6. 2009

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A probation violation investigation resulted in two arrests for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute here March 5. [Full Story »]

Attorney general to keynote meth summit

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Walter Geiger

in Crime, News, Top Stories

Friday, March 6. 2009

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Sheriff Larry Waller has announced that Georgia attorney general Thurbert Baker will keynote a meth summit to be held in Lamar County on June 2, 2009 at the Middle School Auditorium. The summit was prompted by a series of stories on the local meth problem in The Herald-Gazette. [Full Story »]

Bank robbery a family affair for United Bank heist suspect

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Walter Geiger

in Crime, News

Friday, March 6. 2009

Reporter Joe Kovac Jr. of The Macon Telegraph profiles Leonard William Willis Jr. whose wife is also in prison for bank robbery. [Full Story »]

Suzanne Carter Dunson

Posted by

Walter Geiger

in Obituaries

Thursday, March 5. 2009

Mrs. Suzanne Carter Dunson, 68, of Greenville, formerly of Spartanburg, passed away peacefully on March 5, 2009 at St. Francis Memorial Hospital.  [Full Story »]

Community award winners named

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Staff Writer

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Thursday, March 5. 2009

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Lamar County's 2009 citizen superlatives were named tonight at the 26th annual Community Awards Banquet sponsored by the Barnesville-Lamar County Chamber of Commerce. [Full Story »]

Joblessness continues assault on record book

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Walter Geiger

in News

Thursday, March 5. 2009

The Georgia Department of Labor (GDOL) reported today that the unemployment rate in the McIntosh Trail area rose to a preliminary unadjusted rate of 11.1 percent in January, up 4.5 percentage points over the year from January of 2008. [Full Story »]

Arrest made in Milner murder

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Walter Geiger

in Crime, News, Top Stories

Thursday, March 5. 2009

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Authorities have made at least one arrest in connection with the weekend murder of William Charles (Bubba) Milner of Lamar County. Here is the report from the Jackson Progress-Argus. [Full Story »]

Truby’s Trojan Tidbits; March Madness

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in Opinion

Thursday, March 5. 2009

Thanks to those who took part in and attended our education summit last month. It’s a great format we hope will continue in upcoming months. [Full Story »]

Cops: Man hit banks to buy drugs

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Walter Geiger

in Crime, News, Top Stories

Thursday, March 5. 2009

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Employees at United Bank in Barnesville may have been in more danger than originally thought Wednesday. Information has surfaced indicating Robbery suspect Leonard William Willis hit eight banks in a short period of time to get money to feed a severe drug problem.

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Milner man arrested on weapons charge

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Walter Geiger

in Crime

Wednesday, March 4. 2009

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A 33-year-old Milner man was arrested Feb. 27 on weapons charges.
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Bank robbery suspect's identity confirmed (press conf. video included)

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Walter Geiger

in Crime, News, Top Stories

Wednesday, March 4. 2009

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As reported here earlier, the man who allegedly robbed United Bank on Main Street in Barnesville this morning has been identified by authorities as 45-year-old Leonard William Willis of 10958 Reading Rd. in Jacksonville, Fl. [Full Story »]