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Website traffic prompts server upgrades

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Saturday, November 21. 2009

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The overwhelming success of the barnesville.com and pikecountygeorgia.com websites has required an extensive upgrade of the servers hosting them and those upgrades are due to begin soon. [Full Story »]

Count Barkula was a howling success

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Friday, November 20. 2009

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On Halloween local pet owners let the dogs out. [Full Story »]

Light it up

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Thursday, November 19. 2009

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The annual Illumination Celebration will be held Wednesday, Nov. 25. [Full Story »]

Suspects sought in two armed robberies

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Thursday, November 19. 2009

The Barnesville police department is seeking suspects in two more armed robberies here – and one is the so-called sock robber.

Wednesday, Nov. 11 at about 10:25 p.m., two men entered the Pizza Hut and robbed the manager, who was alone in the store closing. The suspects, described as black males, had a small caliber pistol. [Full Story »]

A RETURN to Barnesville

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Thursday, November 19. 2009

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The Return, a Beatles tribute band, will be in concert at the new Lamar County Fine Arts Center Thursday, Nov. 19 at 8 p.m. [Full Story »]

Holiday Houses set for Dec. 5

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Wednesday, November 18. 2009

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The Barnesville Women’s League will hold its annual Holiday House Tour of Homes Saturday, Dec. 5, from 3-7 p.m. [Full Story »]

Early voting starts

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Wednesday, November 18. 2009

Early voting for the Dec. 1 Barnesville runoff election began Monday and will run through Tues-day, Nov. 24 from 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and 1:30-5 p.m. [Full Story »]

FluMist is available in Lamar

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Tuesday, November 17. 2009

Right now the health department has a very limited amount of FluMist for H1N1 "swine" flu but no shots for H1N1 at this time. [Full Story »]

Santa Claws & Paws

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Tuesday, November 17. 2009

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On both Saturday, November 21st from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, November 22nd from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at The Villas on Forsyth the Barnesville-Lamar County Humane Society will be offering pet pictures with Santa. [Full Story »]

Man on trial flees courtroom

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Tuesday, November 17. 2009

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A Barnesville man and his girlfriend are now cooling their heels at the Lamar County jail after he fled a courtroom appearance after being ordered by Judge Tommy Wilson to take a drug test.
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Man arrested after chained pit bull dies

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Friday, November 13. 2009

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A Barnesville man has been arrested for allegedly leaving a pit bull chained to a porch after he moved from the residence. The emaciated dog was found alive but later died of malnutrition. [Full Story »]

Bizarre crash snarls four-lane traffic

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Friday, November 13. 2009

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A bizarre accident snarled traffic on Highway 41/341 near Hot Shot Friday morning. [Full Story »]

The Return kicks off Fine Arts Center season

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Friday, November 13. 2009

The Return, a Beatles tribute band, will be in concert at the newly completed Lamar County Fine Arts Center Thursday, Nov. 19 at 8 p.m. Enter the contest to win two tickets under the online exclusive section of this page. [Full Story »]

Walters brothers meet with Perdue in Afghanistan

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Thursday, November 12. 2009

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Two Lamar countians deployed with the 48th Brigade in Afghanistan were among those meeting with Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue who is visiting with troops there. [Full Story »]

Dog found at Gordon College

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Thursday, November 12. 2009

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A beautiful pup appeared Monday on the campus of Gordon College near the IC Building.

Although she has no tags she has a sweet temperament albeit a bit shy. According to those who are currently caring for her she gets along well with other dogs and even cats and appears to be housebroken. [Full Story »]