Entries by Walter Geiger

Between Monday, October 8 and Monday, October 15 the Barnesville Police Department made the following arrests: [Full Story »] 

By Mike Ruffin

According to the most recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), we have until about 2030 to make drastic changes to prevent environmental catastrophe. If we can hold global warming to under a 0.9 degree Fahrenheit increase, then, as a story at PBS.org says,
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As Lamar was bracing for Hurricane Michael, Darrell and Darlene Hickman shut the doors on the B&L Convenice Store they had operated at the corner of College Drive and Taylor Street in Barnesville for 30 years. “We shut it down last Tuesday at about 9 p.m. The fuel tanks were getting low. We’re going to miss it. You wouldn’t believe how many people came by there just to stop and socialize,” Darrell said last week.

The Wash House, the laundromat adjacent to the store, remains open but will soon move to the former Some Beach Tans location at the corner of Veterans Parkway and Redbud Drive. “We are working with Atlanta Gas Light on getting the gas service we need to run the dryers. We want to get the folks who need it a good, clean laundromat. They need a place to wash their clothes. We want them to have a good place. It will be clean and comfortable,” Darrell added.

The B&L property is owned by an LLC managed by the children of Will Hill Newton who has owned the B&L property for a long time. The same group also owns the land on which Hardee’s, Giant Mart and United Bank are situated. [Full Story »] 

Early voting in the Nov. 6 general election got underway Monday and runs through Friday, Nov. 2. Ballots may be cast and absentee ballots requested at the elections board office at the county annex building on Thomaston Street in Barnesville.

Early voters can cast ballots from Monday, Oct. 15 to Friday, Nov. 2 daily from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. The office will be open on Saturday, Oct. 27 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. as a convenience to those who cannot get there on weekdays.

At presstime Monday, elections supervisor Anita Reid and her staff had served 78 early voters and mailed out 314 absentee ballots of which 120 had been returned.
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Jessica and Ryran Traylor have been members of Lamar Gives 365 since its inception. Ryran’s mom, Tammie Merritt, was one of the original founders of the organization and came up with its logo statement ‘Love where I live. I give’ during one of the original strategy sessions.

Jessica now heads up the membership team for the organization which in just four short years has awarded 47 grants totaling $110,000 and built an invested endowment of over $250,000.
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County crews have been busy working on clearing and grading at the site of the Liberty Hill Park on Hwy. 26 East. Some $450,000 in SPLOST funds have been earmarked for the project and another $100,000 in grant monies is going into the effort. [Full Story »] 

The post below carries all the various warnings Lamar County is under. Conditions will worsen after dark.

Sustained winds will go from 11 mph. at 7 p.m. to 26 mph. by 8 p.m. The heaviest rains will begin at about the same time. Wind gusts could double the sustained winds and go up to 50-75 mph. overnight.

With the ground already wet, this will being down tress which will, in turn, bring down power lines. Other poles and lines will fall on their own. Tornadoes are an additional threat. One has already been spotted in Upson County. Stay alert!

High winds will continue overnight until about 7 a.m. Thursday. Then Michael blows off with some sun by 9 a.m. and full sun by 4 p.m.

Then fall weather moves in for the weekend. Friday's high will be 76 degrees with a low of 51 degrees.

UPDATE: County offices will not open until noon Thursday due to weather.