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'Rectify' filming on Morgan Dairy Rd.

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Walter Geiger

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Monday, June 18. 2012

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The Sundance Network series 'Rectify' is filming today on Morgan Dairy Road in Lamar County. [Full Story »]

Details of cop shooting released

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Walter Geiger

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Friday, June 15. 2012

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The Spalding County S.O. has issued a news release on the shooting of a Griffin police officer Tuesday. [Full Story »]

Shot officer handled dead police dog

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Thursday, June 14. 2012

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The off-duty Griffin police officer who was shot in a domestic disturbance in Spalding County was a Lamar County man who handled a police dog that was killed here in 2009, The Herald-Gazette has learned. [Full Story »]

Off duty Griffin officer shot

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Walter Geiger

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Wednesday, June 13. 2012

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Bill Taylor of WKEU radio in Griffin is reporting an off duty Griffin police officer was shot Tuesday night. [Full Story »]

Grand jury in session. Here's what they're doing

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Walter Geiger

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Monday, June 11. 2012

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The June term Lamar County grand jury convened Monday at the courthouse. Here are the cases before them:

Cortney Contia Adams, theft by taking, criminal trespass;

Timmy Jerome Alford, drugs not in original container, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, possession of controlled substance and sale of controlled substance; [Full Story »]

Local firm's patent used illegally

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Walter Geiger

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Saturday, June 9. 2012

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By Kay S. Pedrotti

The lower hem of your T-shirt may be costing a Barnesville company thousands of dollars. Bottoms Associates, inventors of an automated “hem former,” has learned that companies in South America are duplicating the hem former and undercutting Bottoms’ price for the sewing machine attachment as well as shipping tops made with the pirated part back for sale in the United States. [Full Story »]

Davis benefit is tonight

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Walter Geiger

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Friday, June 8. 2012

First Works Church is planning a concert to support Lamar County senior soccer player and honor graduate Taylor Davis who is undergoing treatment for leukemia. It will be held Friday, June 8, at 7 p.m. at First Works Church on Old Milner Road. The doors will open at 6:15 p.m. and Davis’ fellow soccer players will help collect donations at the door.
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C&D landfill site in foreclosure

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Monday, June 4. 2012

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By Walter Geiger

The long-lingering saga of the proposed C&D landfill in northeast Lamar may have come to an end.
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GC eliminating mens' soccer

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Sunday, June 3. 2012

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Having sent three teams to national title tourneys this year, Gordon is apparently pulling the plug on another sports program. [Full Story »]

View Venus in transit Tuesday at GC

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Walter Geiger

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Friday, June 1. 2012

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The community is invited to the Gordon College campus to view a celestial event Tuesday evening. [Full Story »]

Gordon takes command of Series

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Walter Geiger

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Thursday, May 31. 2012

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By Ken K. Green

Gordon College entered the ten-school JUCO World Series as the tenth seed but now stands as the only unbeaten in the double elimination tournament after holding off number eight seed San Jacinto-North of Houston, Texas 9-7 in Grand Junction, Colorado Wednesday night. [Full Story »]

Meansville man killed in wreck

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Walter Geiger

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Tuesday, May 29. 2012

A Meansville resident died in a fatal car wreck in the early morning Friday, May 25 on Thompson Road in Upson County. Kenneth Doyle Gresham, 46, of Apple Road, was life-flighted to a Macon hospital where he was pronounced dead at 3 a.m. [Full Story »]

Caldwell to seek house seat

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Thursday, May 24. 2012

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Former Griffin circuit superior court judge Johnnie L. Caldwell, Jr. has qualified to run for state representative in District 131. [Full Story »]

Print edition distribution delayed

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Walter Geiger

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Tuesday, May 22. 2012

Due to complications from a power failure at our Macon, Ga. printing plant, distribution of the 5.22.2012 print edition of The Herald-Gazette will be delayed today.

Subscribers will not be receiving newspapers in the mail Tuesday and distribution to retail outlets and news racks will be late. The e-edition is online and is available at the link at the top right of this page. Print subscribers receive the e-edition free.

This delay is due to problems beyond our control and is the first delay in delivering to our mail subscribers in over 30 years. We apologize for any inconvenience and are working diligently to correct the problem.

TSPLOST vetting process slogs on

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Sunday, May 20. 2012

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T-SPLOST meetings continue to be held around the county in the lead-up to the next May 24 question and answer session at the Barnesville Civic Center. It will be held at 7 p.m. [Full Story »]