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how not to run a day care center

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Friday, March 13. 2009

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from associated press reports...

Ten children drank windshield wiper fluid after a staffer at an Arkansas day care mistakenly put the liquid in a refrigerator and served it, hospital officials said Friday.
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Cops get stimulus money

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Friday, March 13. 2009

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With the local crime rate spiraling upward at a dizzying pace, local law enforcement agencies learned last week they are eligible for stimulus funds. [Full Story »]

B’ville’s recycle(d) center opens

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Friday, March 13. 2009

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Since 1984 Barnesville has been offering curbside recycling in city limits. [Full Story »]

Dream Affairs Catering to make "daily living easier"

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Thursday, March 12. 2009

Winemakers in other parts of the world are always shocked to learn that Georgia - affectionately known as the peanut state - grows wine grapes. [Full Story »]

Stepping Stones Educational Therapy Center's Annual Spring Event

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Thursday, March 12. 2009

You can win a Nissan 350ZX or $25,000 in cash money at the Stepping Stones Educational Therapy Center's Annual Spring Event. [Full Story »]

Notice of computation and canvassing of election returns

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Thursday, March 12. 2009

Pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 21-2-492, notice is hereby given that the computation and canvassing of the returns of votes cast in the March 17, 2009 Municipal Special Election will take place in the Lamar County Courthouse, 408 Thomaston Street on March 17, 2009 beginning at 7:00pm [Full Story »]

Girl Scouts work hard to close the cookie deal

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Thursday, March 12. 2009

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"Would you like to buy a box of girl scout cookies?" [Full Story »]

Magistrate Richard Stokes is dead

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Thursday, March 12. 2009

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Lamar County Magistrate Judge Richard B. Stokes passed away this morning. Stokes was 58 years old. [Full Story »]

Lamar County hosts anti-meth summit in June

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Thursday, March 12. 2009

Sheriff Larry Waller has announced that Georgia attorney general Thurbert Baker will keynote a meth summit to be held in Lamar County on June 2, 2009 at the Middle School Auditorium. [Full Story »]

Grove Street auto graveyard claims a couple more

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Wednesday, March 11. 2009

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Just after lunch hour the now infamous corner of Grove Street and GA-7 played witness to another car accident. [Full Story »]

Lamar County Trojans baseball report

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Wednesday, March 11. 2009

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The Lamar Co. Trojans came away from Aldora Field on Tuesday night, March 10th, with an 8-4 win over their Region 5-AA opponent, Crawford Co. [Full Story »]

Monumental Task

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Wednesday, March 11. 2009

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Engraver Randy Parham of Eatonton sandblasts the name of MSG Davy N. Weaver onto the war memorial on the Lamar courthouse lawn Friday. [Full Story »]

C&D landfill rears its controversial head again

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Tuesday, March 10. 2009

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A hearing is scheduled for March 31 in Lamar County superior court regarding the E.T. Carlyle Co.'s request to develop a construction and demolition landfill in northeast Lamar County off Possum Trot Road. [Full Story »]

Commission says no to funds for personal property audits

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Tuesday, March 10. 2009

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Commissioner George Brown's request that up to $7300 be added to the budget of the Board of Assessors for personal property audits aimed at struggling small businesses went down in flames at tonight's county commission meeting. Brown sought the funding so tax assessors could visit some 13 local businesses and audit depreciable assets in person. [Full Story »]

LIFE OR METH (online poll)

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Tuesday, March 10. 2009

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Over the past three weeks The Herald-Gazette received mixed reviews for the three-part series on methamphetamine – the use, abuse, cost, and destruction of the drug that has wreaked deadly addiction and destruction in our community. Some readers were outraged that we would include such vicious images while others were happy we dared to identify a problem exists in Barnesville-Lamar County. [Full Story »]