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A 60-year-old Meansville man was killed in a one-vehicle accident on Hwy. 18 West here Friday afternoon. [Full Story »] 

At a tense bond hearing in Butts County superior court Tuesday, Judge Tommy Wilson set bond for alleged Waffle House shooter Robert Lewis Henderson Jr. at $1 million in property or $100,000 in cash.

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Retired Army Sgt. Joshua David Moran will be the keynote speaker at the 2019 Veterans Day observance Monday, Nov. 11 at 11 a.m. at the veterans memorial near the Barnesville library.
This year’s event is hosted by American Legion Post #25. Following the ceremony, lunch will be served to veterans and guests at the civic center.

An honor roll of veterans who died in the past year will be read at the ceremony by VFW vice-commander Richard Wright. A 21-gun salute and the playing of ‘Taps’ will follow. To ensure your friend or loved one is included on the honor roll, call the Legion post at 770-358-2905 or the VFW post at 770-872-2132.

Sgt. Moran is pastor at Thread of Hope Ministries and active in the American Legion. He enlisted on Aug. 8, 2003 and was medically retired on Feb. 7, 2010 due to injuries received during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

He served as an M1 armor crewman and 88M motor transport operator. He achieved the rank of Sgt. E5 and was awarded multiple service medals including the combat action badge. Thread of Hope Ministries hosts a regular veterans support group meeting Monday nights at 7 p.m.

At 2 p.m., the focus shifts to Milner for an observance at the Veterans Memorial at Milner city park, hosted by the mayor and city council and organized by Fred Stephens.

Registered voters in Milner go to the polls today with the opportunity to radically change the makeup of their city council. There are two races on the ballot and four council posts on the line.

The polling place is moving this year to the new Milner Community library. Voters can cast ballots there from 7 a.m. - 7 p.m.

Wayne Inglett and Skip Seda are battling for the post vacated by the resignation of Roger Samples who is moving out of the community.

Three other posts, those of incumbents Betty Wilson and Fred Stephens and the slot formerly held by Tracey Alford who resigned, are also up for grabs. Those positions will be filled by plurality voting. The top three vote getters among six candidates will win four-year terms. The six vying for the spots are Wilson, Fred Stephens, Regina Stephens, Helen Palacios-Jordan, David Jerry Smith and Vickie W. Smith.

This is a candidate-rich ballot for Milner, perhaps the most choices ever offered voters there. The assumption has been turnout would be high today but early voting has not indicated that.

During the early voting period, elections supervisor Anita Reid and her staff served only 28 advance voters and dealt with 2 absentee ballots.

You can get realtime updates on election results tonight at barnesville.com. A recorded message of results will also be available by calling The Herald Gazette newsroom at 770-358-NEWS.

Barnesville’s historic Greenwood Cemetery will come to life Sunday as costumed characters portraying prominent citizens from long ago present tales of their lives and times. The tours, set for 3 p.m. 4 p.m. and 5 p.m., are sponsored by the Greenwood Cemetery Preservation Association and the Azalea Garden Club.

Tour proceeds will go toward creating a second, formal entrance on the south side of the graveyard near the tombs of the late mayor Dewaine T. Bell and county commissioner Gene Hardwick. Advance tickets are on sale at the chamber of commerce office for $25. Tickets will be $30 Sunday.

Participants will meet at the Depot for cocktails and hors d’oeuvres before being transported via golf cart to the cemetery.

The tour will begin at the Collier mausoleum and plot where descendant Glenn Collier will portray Jena Cuthbert (J.C.) Collier, a wealthy planter. Susan Walter will portray her grandmother, Evelyn Collier Cason.

At other burial places, Capt. Dan Rainey will play Col. J.J. Rogers and Judge Byron Smith will portray George L. Summers. Al Medcalf of the SCV will hold forth in the Confederate portion of the cemetery and honor Dr. J.H. Connally.

Monica Walters will bring to life Augusta Lambdin while Stafford King Gudenrath of Macon, a direct descendant, will portray Sarah Ann Blalock Stafford, wife of J.W. Stafford.

Josiah Holmes gave the original four acres for the cemetery which was established in the 1830s. The cemetery is maintained by the City of Barnesville.

Tours will last about an hour. For more information, call the chamber office at 770-358-5884.

Greenwood Cemetery is an historic sleeping place with many colorful characters from Barnesville’s rich history interred there. Many will be featured on the Lantern Tour set for Nov. 3.

The cemetery is full of twists, turns and legends - one of which assistant city manager and local historian Tim Turner got involved with earlier this year when an e-mail arrived at city hall from Belgium seeking information about someone buried here from Cees and Veronique Hermens Verschuur. Veronique grew up in a centuries-old farmhouse in the south Netherlands near Mastricht. On Oct. 14, 1943, a B-17 bomber crashed on the family farm. It was piloted by Lt. Doug Murdock of Barnesville. [Full Story »] 

For the first time in school history, the LC Lady Trojans (20-9) play in the Elite 8 round of the GHSA Class AA state softball tournament today and travel to the Olympic softball venue in Columbus to take on the Jeff Davis Yellow Jackets (18-14) at 4 p.m. The format goes from best of three to double elimination from here on out.

Lamar is one of three teams from tough Region 5AA that are still in it. Bremen faces Banks County after eliminating Dade and Berrien. Heard battles Harlem after knocking out Pepperell and Bleckley County.

If LC wins in round one, they will battle the Banks County-Bremen winner at 10 a.m. Friday. If they fall, they drop to the losers bracket and face the Banks-Bremen loser at 2 p.m. Friday.

Jeff Davis entered the postseason as the #3 seed from Region 2AA. They knocked out Screven County and Monticello in the first two rounds.

After 2: LC 3 JD1

After 4:LC 3 JD 1

After 6:LC 3 JD 1

FINAL: LC 4 JD 1

The LC Lady Trojans volleyball team travels to Rome today for a 5 p.m. match with defending state champ Coosa High in the Class AA state volleyball tournament. Coach Princess Banks' team plays at 5 p.m.

LC dispatched Davidson Fine Arts in straight sets 25-13, 25-22, and 25-23 Saturday in the first round. Players of the match were Kaitlynn Rogers and Jaime Riehle.

A utility crew cut into a gas line on Rose Avenue just before noon Monday, resulting in a serious gas leak. Rose and Greenwood Street were closed and a few residents were evacuated.

A 21-year-old Forsyth man was sentenced to five years with four years to serve in prison Oct. 10 by Judge Tommy Wilson for punching a female BPD officer in the face during a Jan. 18 melee at the local Waffle House. [Full Story »] 

A 2:15 p.m. crash on Ga. Hwy. 7 at the Hwy. 36 bypass sent three women to the hospital here Tuesday.

Initial indications were a Honda Civic pulled out of the bypass into the path of a northbound Kia Sorrento which struck it broadside. The driver of the Civic, the lone occupant of the car, was unconscious at the scene for some time and taken by ambulance to Macon Medical Center.

Two women in the Kia were also transported. One had a laceration to her nose. Another was suffering chest pains. A small child in a safety seat in the Kia was unhurt.

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A woman who played a leading role in the early history of Gordon will be spotlighted during the Lantern Tour event Nov. 3 at Greenwood Cemetery. Funds generated by the tour will go to build a south entrance to the historic graveyard and other improvement projects.

Augusta Beauregard Riviere Lambdin was born here just as the Civil War was heating up in 1861. In 1870, leading businessmen decided to create a centralized school and on Sept. 1, 1872 Charles E. Lambdin and his son, Azmon A. Murphy, opened Gordon Institute in Granite Hall, a former opera house on Market Street. [Full Story »]