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Dad-Daughter dance is Feb. 9

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Thursday, January 24. 2013

The seventh annual Dad-Daughter Dance will be held Saturday, Feb. 9 at the Barnesville Civic Center from 7 to 9 p.m. [Full Story »]

Local firm lands big contract

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Monday, January 14. 2013

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Bombardier Aerospace of Montreal has chosen D-Check Development's Omni Arm to install the nose landing gear on its new C Series aircraft. [Full Story »]

Jimmy Burnette’s Model A dream realized

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Wednesday, January 9. 2013

By Kay S. Pedrotti

If you see a happy couple riding through Barnesville in a 1928 Model A, usually accompanied by a singing Jack Russell terrier named Sparkle, it’ll be Jimmy and Bobbie Burnette.
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Found Dog

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Thursday, January 3. 2013

Dog found near Holloway Road.

If this is your dog call Octavia Jackson at 770-358-5163

Hope for ‘peace on earth, good will toward men'

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Monday, December 24. 2012

By Don McKee
Marietta Daily Journal

Christmas Eve. This is the season that had its origin in the divine message of “peace on earth, good will toward men.”

In America, we can count our many blessings — among them “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” We can enjoy peace in our homeland at least insofar as outside forces are concerned. But in some parts of the world, the story is starkly different for Christians on this Christmas Eve.
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Nancy Anderson delighted with retirement

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Friday, December 14. 2012

By Kay S. Pedrotti

She has a skylighted atrium and a sunny screen porch at her house, but the best light in Nancy Anderson’s home emanates from her personality.
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Chicken Picatta

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Tasha Webster

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Thursday, December 6. 2012

Ingredients:
2 8oz. skinless, boneless chicken breasts, cut in half horizontally [Full Story »]

Homemade Ranch Dressing

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Monday, November 12. 2012

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Ingredients:

1 cup Oikos plain greek yogurt [Full Story »]

'All Together Different' kicks off Nov. 10

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Friday, November 2. 2012

Artist Eleanor Dixon Stecker of Barnesville will be part of a three-artist show at A Novel Experience in Zebulon Nov. 3-30 called All Together Different. An artists’ reception will be held Saturday, Nov. 10, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. [Full Story »]

Mathieson sweeps awards at Ga. National Fair

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Thursday, October 25. 2012

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By Sherri Ellington

Local woodturner Niall Mathieson ran away with all the awards, including people’s choice and best of show, again this year at the Georgia National Fair in Perry for his massive wood turnings and carvings. This is his third year competing, and he had several other pieces place but they have not yet been officially announced. [Full Story »]

Fundraiser for Rachel English

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Friday, October 19. 2012

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An account has been set up and a fundraiser is planned for this weekend to help the family of Rachel English, 7, who has just arrived home from the hospital after being treated for pneumococcal meningitis.

The fundraiser will take the form of a gospel singing at First Works Church, led by the English Family with other local singers, at 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 20. The money will be used to help defray transportation and daily household costs for her parents Jonathan and Jessica English and her three siblings. [Full Story »]

GBT hosts GHOSTS

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Monday, October 15. 2012

Griffin Ballet Theatre will host GHOSTS October 20. [Full Story »]

Big changes in farming, regulations in 72 years

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Wednesday, October 3. 2012

By Kay S. Pedrotti

In a ground-zero position of observation for 72 years, members of the Akins family of Barnesville say farming and agriculture needs have undergone enormous changes since 1940.

Current manager Bruce Akins, son, grandson and nephew of the family members who founded Akins Farm and Home, says he now needs innumerable separate licenses for all his services and products -- there is no such thing as spraying a field or mixing fertilizer without approval of the state. [Full Story »]

Go Dawgs! at SGES

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Wednesday, September 26. 2012

Botox the Bulldog was shocked when Will Mulder showed up at the annual Blessing of the Animals at St. George’s Episcopal School in Milner Friday wearing a replica of his UGA jersey. [Full Story »]