Candidates Chris Hightower and Ronald Horton will square off next Tuesday in a special election to fill the unexpired term of former Barnesville city council member Annie Mae Harris who resigned last summer.
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More wanton violence erupted in Barnesville today when shots were fired in the area of Sims Street, Johnstonville Road and Crawford Road. No one was hit by the gunfire but two people were injured in a subsequent car crash in which a vehicle overturned.
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Sheriff Larry Waller has announced that Georgia attorney general Thurbert Baker will keynote a meth summit to be held in Lamar County on June 2, 2009 at the Middle School Auditorium. The summit was prompted by a series of stories on the local meth problem in The Herald-Gazette.
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Lamar County's 2009 citizen superlatives were named tonight at the 26th annual Community Awards Banquet sponsored by the Barnesville-Lamar County Chamber of Commerce.
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Authorities have made at least one arrest in connection with the weekend murder of William Charles (Bubba) Milner of Lamar County. Here is the report from the Jackson Progress-Argus.
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Employees at United Bank in Barnesville may have been in more danger than originally thought Wednesday. Information has surfaced indicating Robbery suspect Leonard William Willis hit eight banks in a short period of time to get money to feed a severe drug problem.
As reported here earlier, the man who allegedly robbed United Bank on Main Street in Barnesville this morning has been identified by authorities as 45-year-old Leonard William Willis of 10958 Reading Rd. in Jacksonville, Fl.
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"Oh, the places you'll go! You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights,"Dr. Seuss spells out in the book Oh, The Places You'll Go!
The book has become one of the most popular gifts for graduates everywhere and spells out some of life's smaller lessons about believing in yourself and always being encouraged. But it is not a book that will be read at graduation.
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Public schools in Lamar County are closed Monday due to inclement weather. Update: Classes at St. George's Episcopal School in Milner have also been cancelled. Update II: Classes at Gordon College are cancelled until noon. GC staff should report at 10 a.m. if travel permits.
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