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Realtime results from tonight's Awards Night Banquet....

Citizens of the Year: Missy Kendrick and Amanda Rose.

Businessperson of the Year: Missy Kendrick, IDA.

Law Enforcement Officer of the Year: Bryan 'Ernie' McWhorter.

Career Woman of the Year: Amanda Rose, Chamber of Commerce.

Volunteers of the Year: Rev. Lonnie Grant and congregation of First Church of the Nazarene.

Farmer of the Year: Russ Walters, Walters Farms.

Firefighter of the Year: Joe Peters, LCFD.

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Brief but heavy hailstorm hit downtown Barnesville at 1:20 p.m...severe weather sirens sounding.

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Hailstorm video taken with iPhone follows:

Untitled from Walter Geiger on Vimeo.

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A Canton man who pleaded guilty just days ago to killing a seven-year-old Canton girl committed suicide this afternoon at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification prison just across the Lamar County line in Butts County Thursday afternoon [Full Story »] 

By Walter C. Jones
Morris News Service

When the Board of Regents voted unanimously to shrink eight colleges down to four, it pulled off a near miracle in public-policy terms.

Consolidation of some of the state’s 35 schools has been kicked around for decades with no result because of the political sensitivity. Just floating the idea in a legislative committee hearing in 2010 led to public denounciations and demonstrations. [Full Story »] 

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From the 1.17.2012 print/e-edition of The Herald-Gazette

Except for a little cleanup work, the Lamar County tax assessors office has completed its revaluation of all properties despite a 27% budget reduction in 2011. [Full Story »] 

Capt. Carole Sutton is retiring effective Jan. 31 from her position as jail administrator at the Lamar County S.O. She has 12 years of service over two stints with the department and 20 years with the Spalding Co. sheriff's office [Full Story »] 

A very serious traffic accident Monday night at the intersection of College Drive and Spencer Street in Barnesville resulted in numerous injuries. At least two people were sent to the Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon. [Full Story »] 

Christopher Hightower reports that plans have been finalized for the local celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day here Jan. 16.

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