Entries by Walter Geiger

Our fantastic Barnesville Rotary Club recently had a program presenter from a metro area club who was touting a free school lunch program in Honduras.

It seems a member of his club had taken a motorcycle trip through central America and met a starving girl at the Honduran border. He was touched and started a well-intentioned program through which hundreds of school lunches are now provided to needy students in that area. [Full Story »] 

By Walter Geiger

Word leaked out at last week’s county commission meeting about demolition work underway at the old Booker School/Barnesville Primary School campus off Forsyth Street in Barnesville. [Full Story »] 

This year Lamar County will celebrate National Night Out from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 4 at Summer’s Field and also at Milner City Park.

The events will give citizens the chance to meet public safety personnel while enjoying music, free food, games, prizes and fun.

“In an effort to provide convenient locations for all communities within Lamar County, the Lamar County Sheriff’s Office together with the Milner Police Department will be hosting the National Night Out Against Crime at the City Park in Milner, while the Barnesville Police Department hosts the event at Summer’s Field Park,” said Ginger Story of LCSO. [Full Story »] 

The GBI has taken warrants for Jackson police officer Sherry Hall, alleging she faked an incident in which she reported she was shot by a suspect. [Full Story »] 

The Lamar County Trojans (3-1) are in Madison tonight to take on the Morgan County Bulldogs.

Check back often for realtime scoring from the game by Walter Geiger.


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At their Sept. 13 meeting, the Lamar County Board of Education heard a report from superintendent Dr. Jute Wilson that the ESPLOST vote is set to be on the ballot in November.

ESPLOST must be approved by voters every five years and must be used for capital project expenditures. ESPLOST is a one penny sales tax placed on local consumer purchases that is used to help fund buildings and supply technologies needed to help give students quality education, according to Dr. Wilson. [Full Story »] 

By Walter Geiger

In an unexpected move during a bizarre hearing Sept. 14, suspected hit and run driver Bobbie Jo Sumner took the stand and shot down her own legal team’s motion to suppress statements she made to police after she was taken into custody on July 2, 2013.

Sumner is charged with first degree vehicular homicide, hit and run and four counts of making false statements in connection with the June 29, 2013 death of Gordon student Alexandra Noelle Desir. Desir was on her way to work at Huddle House from her GSC dorm when she was struck and killed while walking on Rose Avenue.

Auto parts left at the scene led authorities to search for a white Saturn Vue. Sumner owned a silver Saturn Vue. Officers Freddie Oates and Michael Rainer went to her Rogers Circle home on July 2, 2013 to inquire about the car. Sumner told them she had hit a deer and the car was in Griffin being repaired. [Full Story »] 

By Mike Ruffin

The other Sunday, I was preaching about Jesus again. I seem to be stuck on that subject.

Anyway, the text was Matthew 13:1-23. In the first few verses, Jesus tells a crowd what is usually called the parable of the sower (although a better name is the parable of the soils). He just tells the story and leaves it hanging there.

He offers no explanation or interpretation to the crowd, although he does later explain it to his disciples. It’s easy to imagine the people asking each other what that was all about. [Full Story »] 

A conservator of paintings with the Atlanta Art Conservation Center of the High Museum of Art recently inspected the lifesize portrait of John B. Gordon, Gordon State College’s namesake.

Conservator Larry Shuts’ visit is part of a plan to get the large portrait ready to hang in a location on campus that will allow it to be properly displayed and preserved. [Full Story »]