Entries by Walter Geiger

According to Chief Mike Bailey of the Milner Police Department, at approximately 7:15 p.m. Friday one of his officers responded to a call of an attempted child abduction on Main Street.

A female that is suspected of several other attempted child abductions approached a home in Milner posing as a DFCS worker. She was driving a black Jeep Cherokee without a license plate. The incident occurred at a residence on Main Street in Milner.

No children were harmed.

Investigators are searching for the woman believed to have been responsible for several child abduction attempts. Anyone with any information is asked to call 770-467-4282. [Full Story »] 

The Lamar County Trojans (1-1) travel to Thompson Stadium in Macon tonight to battle ACE Academy. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m.

If you can't go, check back often for realtime scoring from the game by Walter Geiger.

10:32 1st qtr.: LC 7 ACE 0: KT Brownlee 51-yd. TD run. Ethan Popham PAT.

6:54 1st qtr.: LC 14 ACE 0: Brownlee 11-yd. TD run. Popham PAT. Key play: Interception by Devin Bateman.

3:03 1st qtr.: LC 21 ACE 0: Bateman 54-yd. TD run. Popham PAT.

8:28 2nd qtr.: LC 28 ACE 0: Braydon Pines 7-yd.TD run. Popham PAT.

3:57 2nd qtr.: LC 28 ACE 3: ACE 44-yd. FG.

3:42 2nd qtr.: LC 35 ACE 3: Bateman 98-yd. Kickoff return for TD. Popham PAT.

HALFTIME: 35-3.

5:28 3rd qtr.: LC 42 ACE 3: Bateman 17-yd. TD run. Popham PAT.

8:09 4th qtr.: LC 48 ACE 3: Joey Stratton 76-yd. TD run. PAT failed.

FINAL: 48-3.

By Walter Geiger

An unusual shipment arrived at an out-of-the-way location off Chappell Mill Road in northeast Lamar County last week - a 6000-pound section of wing from a scrapped Boeing 767. Awaiting it inside was a 767 landing gear.

Jeff Barkes and his crew at D-Check Developments will use the parts, which came from a boneyard near Tucson, Arizona, to develop one of their Omni Arm devices to speed up the process of changing out landing gears on the aircraft which is used around the world. [Full Story »] 

Our youngest, Livia Lanier, is now a freshman at UGA. She called one day last week to let us know she had gotten her football tickets for all the home games in Athens this fall. She was excited and with good reason.

Kirby Smart has exorcised all that remained from the Mark Richt era of underachievement. We need look no farther than last season when Smart took his team to the national title game in a year most of the pundits thought he would go 8-3 or something like that. [Full Story »] 

By Rachel McDaniel

Several houses have been moved from the historic Aldora Mill Village but 18 two bedroom homes are still for sale for only $2,000 each - not including the cost to move them. The houses were built in 1957 and when water and sewer lines beneath the aging neighborhood deteriorated beyond repair, the city decided to sell the houses, move them and rebuild in the same location.
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By Kay S. Pedrotti

The Milner City Council, after enlisting Wayne Patterson’s help as a consultant to the city, has unanimously approved Patterson as the new city administrator. He succeeds the late Harold Wilson. [Full Story »] 

Between Monday, August 13 and Monday, August 20 the Barnesville Police Department made the following arrests: [Full Story »] 

The school system and Parrish Construction have released new drone footage of the LCHS construction site. It is embedded in this open post. [Full Story »]