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Entries from April 2009

Truby’s Trojan Tidbits: Superintendent gives report on schools (part 2)

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in Opinion

Thursday, April 2. 2009

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Interesting info.

Here are a few news items that caught my attention recently. In the last 10 years the free breakfast program has doubled nationally, but millions are still coming to school without getting any meal before the first bell rings. [Full Story »]

Rains wreak havoc on roads, cause closings

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Walter Geiger

in News, Top Stories

Thursday, April 2. 2009

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Heavy rains falling on saturated ground have wreaked havoc with county roads today. Multiple roads are closed and things are likely to get worse before they get better. [Full Story »]

United States Census 2010: Annual estimates show slight growth

Posted by

Sherri Ellington

in News

Thursday, April 2. 2009

With the 2010 Census coming up, the U.S. Census Bureau has released its annual estimates of population as of July 2008. The figures indicate Lamar County saw a slight growth over the past eight years after the 2000 Census was adjusted. [Full Story »]

Got skills? High school career fair is today

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Staff Writer

in Top Stories

Thursday, April 2. 2009

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Participants will be on the air as well as learning about job skills Thursday, April 2, when the high school hosts the first Got Skills? career fair with the chamber of commerce. [Full Story »]

Gordon pumps over $100 million into local economy

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Walter Geiger

in News, Top Stories

Wednesday, April 1. 2009

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Gordon College pumped more than $100 million into the regional economy during fiscal year 2008, according to a report released Wednesday by the University System of Georgia.

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The drought is broken

Posted by

Walter Geiger

in Geiger's Counter

Wednesday, April 1. 2009

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I could hear the roar of the normally placid creek long before I got to it.

Filled with runoff from nearly five inches of rain upstream, it burst through a culvert pipe onto our property with fire hose velocity. [Full Story »]