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A group of residents was at Monday night’s Barnesville city council meeting to take up the long smoldering issue of speeding on Greenwood Street after a crash Labor Day night that wrecked three cars, two of which were parked at the time.

Just before 10:30 p.m., a southbound 2014 Nissan Sentra driven by Zoria-Erianna Wilkerson, who had only a learner’s license, crashed into two cars parked at the Worthy residence at 612 Greenwood Street. Two witnesses said Wilkerson was traveling at a high rate of speed when she hit the parked cars. Another witness disagreed. [Full Story »] 

The LCHS JV football schedule has been updated.

LC will host Heritage Sept. 15 at 5:30 p.m.

Upson-Lee will be here Sept. 22 at 5 p.m.

Due to a snafu with its fax machine, the chamber of commerce may not have received your application for the Buggy Days parade if you sent it by fax. Those who faxed such applications are encouraged to send them again to be sure. The fax number there is 770.358.5886. You can also call the chamber office at 770.358.5884 or parade chairman Tim Cherry at 770.358.2789.

Buggy Days 2016 offers up its annual Kids Night this afternoon from 4:30-6 p.m. at Trojan Field. The event, sponsored by the Women's League, will feature face painting, a cakewalk, pinatas, police cars, fire trucks, etc.

It is free and designed for children ages 12 and under.

For more information, call 770.358.5884.

Spalding sheriff Wendell Beam has issued a lookout for the truck pictured herewith with regard to a possible teen predator incident that occurred September 9.

A youg female said two men in the truck began following her as she drove along Hamil Road in eastern Spalding County about 7:45 a.m. It continued to follow her along East McIntsoh Road to Old Atlanta Road. When she stopped at a traffic light, the driver of the truck got out and tried to open the door of the female's vehicle.

She drove west on McIntosh Road but, at a second stop light, the driver of the truck approached her vehicle a second time with what looked like a gun in his hand. The female finally stopped at a church and the truck drove west on Hwy. 92.

The suspect driver is a white male in his 20s. He is tall and slender and has dark brown hair and a beard. He was wearing a black t-shirt and jeans. The passenger in the truck was also a white male in his 20s. He is heavyset with strawberry colored hair.

The truck is white, possibly a Ford Ranger, with black bumpers, chrome wheels and a black toolbox in the back.

If you have any information on this truck or those in it, call the Spalding S.O. CID at 770-467-4282

Mr. Claude Fink, age 101, of Barnesville, passed away Sunday, September 11, 2016, at Pike Manor in Zebulon. Mr. Fink was born April 12, 1915 in Cartersville, Georgia, son of the late James Coleman Fink Sr. and Sarah M. Hudson Fink. He was preceded in death by his wife, Mable Colwell Fink. Mr. Fink retired from the William Carter Company and was a United States Army veteran of World War II.
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Teens are invited to a special art night Wednesday at the Barnesville Library. All supplies will be provided.

Mrs. Norma Jean Campbell Langford, age 55, of Barnesville passed away on Thursday, September 8, 2016 in a Fulton County Healthcare Facility. She was the daughter of the late Mr. Raymond “Bo” Campbell and the late Mrs. Elsie Beatrice Bethune Campbell, and was also preceded in death a granddaughter, Lacy Marie Arnold. She had been a Textile Worker for The William Carter Company. Mrs. Langford loved her family, her grandkids, and her cats. She especially loved her rocking chair. [Full Story »]