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The moisture is back

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Tuesday, March 17. 2009

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I got to spend all day Saturday in the woods. It was a rare occasion. I
love the outdoors but spend much less time there now than I used to due
to family and business responsibilities. [Full Story »]

Polls expected to pick up momentum this evening

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Walter Geiger

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Tuesday, March 17. 2009

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Poll workers have been underwhelmed thus far today as voters have avoided voting in the special election to fill the ward two seat on the Barnesville city council like the plague. [Full Story »]

Karoline Alyssa Page

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Tuesday, March 17. 2009

Keith and Kelly Page of Yatesville announce the birth of their daughter Karoline Alyssa Page at 10:17 p.m. Friday Feb. 13, 2009, at Spalding Regional Medical Center in Griffin. [Full Story »]

Stokes

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Tuesday, March 17. 2009

Richard B. Stokes, 58, of Barnesville died Thursday, March 12, 2009. Services will be held Saturday, March 14, at Pine View Baptist Church at 11 a.m. The family will receive friends at the Williams Funeral Home Friday from 6-8 p.m. [Full Story »]

DeLoach

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Tuesday, March 17. 2009

Alvah Leonard "Len" DeLoach Jr., 61, of Myrtle Beach, S.C., died Sunday, March 1, 2009. Services will be held Saturday, March 14, at 2 p.m. at Glenwood Cemetery in Thomaston. [Full Story »]

Brown

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Tuesday, March 17. 2009

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Edna Darden Brown died Wednesday, March 4, 2009. Services were held Saturday, March 7. [Full Story »]

Foshee

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Tuesday, March 17. 2009

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Dorothy Daniel Foshee, 90, of Barnesville died Monday, March 9, 2009. Services were held Wednesday, March 11. [Full Story »]

O'Neal

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Tuesday, March 17. 2009

Mrs. Lessie Bell Johnson O’Neal, 90, of Barnesville, died Monday, March 9, 2009. Services will be held Thursday, March 12, at 11 a.m. in Greenwood Cemetery. [Full Story »]

Lamar County Trojans baseball boys defeat Macon Co.

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Tuesday, March 17. 2009

On a night with weather better-suited for duck hunting, the Lamar County Trojans Baseball Team took some much needed heat with them to Macon Co. in the form of their bats, for a Region 5-AA contest with the Macon Co. Bulldogs.
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LCSO, NTF make meth arrest

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Walter Geiger

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Monday, March 16. 2009

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Lamar sheriff's deputies and agents of the Narcotics Task Force executed a search warrant at 131 Bulldog Court today, making one arrest and seizing four grams of methamphetamine and a quantity of marijuana, according to sheriff Larry Waller.

Bulldog Court is located off Unionville Road in Lamar County. [Full Story »]

Lamar County Golf scores

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Monday, March 16. 2009

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According to the head golf coach at Lamar County High, the golf team is maturing and getting better every day. [Full Story »]

Back on Uncle Sam's plantation

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Monday, March 16. 2009

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By Star Parker (submitted)

Six years ago I wrote a book called Uncle Sam's Plantation . I wrote the book to tell my own story of what I saw living inside the welfare state and my own transformation out of it.
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how much rain...

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Walter Geiger

in Geiger's Counter

Monday, March 16. 2009

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is in your gauge? [Full Story »]

Barnesville ward two voters go to the polls

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Walter Geiger

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Monday, March 16. 2009

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Voters in Barnesville’s Ward 2 go to the polls Tuesday to choose between two candidates to fill the unexpired term of former city council member Annie Mae Harris who resigned last summer. [Full Story »]

Gordon Men’s Baseball Takes Three, Drops One

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Monday, March 16. 2009

The Gordon College men’s baseball team is 16-11 for the season and 5-1 in conference play after dropping one to Darton College but bouncing back with a three-game win over Vincennes University. [Full Story »]