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ACCORDING TO POST 26 GA. STATE PATROL IN THOMASTON, A MEANSVILLE MOTORIST DIED EARLY FRIDAY AFTER HE WRECKED TRYING TO PASS ANOTHER CAR ON THOMPSON ROAD.
KENNETH D. GRESHAM , 46, OF 563 APPLE ROAD, MEANSVILLE WAS LIFE-FLIGHTED TO A MACON HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 3AM. TROOPER BRAD THOMPSON SAID GRESHAM WAS NOT WEARING A SEAT BELT.
BLACKSTON ANNOUNCED HE PLANS TO RESIGN AT TUESDAY’S MEETING. HE TOLD TGA NEWS WEDNESDAY HE WILL QUALIFY TO RUN FOR CHAIRMAN IN THE JULY 31ST PRIMARY.
RALPH ELLINGTON TOLD TGA NEWS WEDNESDAY HE WILL SEEK BLACKSTON’S DISTRICT 3 POST.
AT TUESDAY’S MEETING BLACKSTON SAID IN HIS HEART HE KNOWS ITS THE RIGHT DECISION. REPORTS ARE UNLESS SOMEONE QUALIFIES FOR THE DISTRICT THREE COMMISSION POST THIS WEEK, A SPECIAL ELECTION WILL BE NEEDED.
SOUTH, A FORMER COUNTY COMMISSIONER, TOLD TGA NEWS MONDAY AFTERNOON HE PLANS TO QUALIFY THIS WEEK. SIX YEARS AGO SOUTH WON THE DISTRICT THREE SEAT ON THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, BUT RESIGNED AFTER TWO YEARS, AS MANDATED BY LAW, TO RUN FOR COMMISSION CHAIRMAN.
INCUMBENT MAURICE RAINES SAYS HE WILL SEEK ANOTHER FOUR YEAR TERM AND HE WAS UPBEAT ABOUT THE CONDITION OF COUNTY GOVERNMENT IN REMARKS TO THOMASTON KIWANIS LAST WEEK.
VOTERS HAVE UNTIL JULY 2ND TO REGISTER TO VOTE IN THE JULY 31ST PRIMARY. CANDIDATES CAN QUALIFY WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY OF THIS WEEK.
FOLLOWING AN EXECUTIVE SESSION TUESDAY, THE THOMASTON CITY COUNCIL APPROVED A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING LEGAL ACTION TO ENFORCE THE GA. OPEN RECORDS ACT.
CITY HALL CLAIMS COUNTY GOVERNMENT HAS FAILED TO RESPOND TO OPEN RECORDS REQUESTS FOR FINANCIAL DATA FOR A TAX EQUITY STUDY STARTED OVER A YEAR AND A HALF AGO.
THE THOMASTON MAYOR AND COUNCIL CLAIMS ITS NOT GETTING ITS FAIR SHARE OF TAXATION.
MAJOR DAN KILGORE TOLD TGA NEWS LATE FRIDAY, GREGORY LAWSON, 18 WAS IN THE CLAYTON COUNTY JAIL—THE 2ND INMATE CAPTURED AFTER TWO ESCAPED FROM THE UPSON COUNTY JAIL ON A GARBAGE DETAIL SAT. MAY 5, 2012.
UPSON COUNTY PROBATE JUDGE DANIELLE MCRAE HAS APPOINTED CHRIS BIGGS TO SERVE THE UNEXPIRED TERM OF SANDRA TRICE DISTRICT ONE, WHO RESIGNED AFTER ENTERING A GUILTY PLEA.
BIGGS HAS SERVED ON THE UPSON COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION AND IS A PHYSICAL THERAPIST AT URMC. HE WAS SWORN-IN AFTER TUESDAY’S MEETING.
SHERIFF DON PEACOCK SAID THE TWO ESCAPED OVER THE WEEKEND DURING A GARBAGE DETAIL. DEMERIS JERROD MILDTON, 23 , WAS FOUND IN CLAY COUNTY, FLORIDA OUTSIDE A SHOPPING MALL AND IS BEING RETURNED TO THE UPSON COUNTY JAIL.
GREGORY LAWSON, 18 , IS STILL AT LARGE, U.S. MARSHALLS ARE LEADING THE SEARCH FOR HIM.
SHERIFF PEACOCK RECEIVED THE 2012 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FROM DISTRICT ATTORNEY SCOTT BALLARD DURING THE ANNUAL LAW ENFORCEMENT BANQUET FOR THE GRIFFIN JUDICIAL CIRCUIT.
ACCORDING TO THE UPSON COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE A HOUSE UNDER CONSTRUCTION AT 424 OLD SWIFTON ROAD WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE FRIDAY. THE PROPERTY OF STEPHEN LAWRENCE.
THE S.O. REPORT SAID THERE ARE INDICATIONS SOMEONE TRIED TO ENTER A BARN ON THE PROPERTY BY CUTTING THE LOCK AND BREAKING-IN THE DOOR.
THE PROPERTY OWNER SAID HE LOCKED THE GATE WHEN HE LEFT THE HOUSE AROUND 1PM FRIDAY, BUT IT WAS OPEN WHEN SALEM FIRE DEPARTMENT RESPONDED.
IN A PRESS RELEASE ISSUED FRIDAY, THE HOUSE DISTRICT 127 LEGISLATOR SAYS HE NEEDS TO DEVOTE MORE TIME TO HIS FAMILY AND GROWING LAW PRACTICE.
THE DISTRICT INCLUDES A PORTION OF UPSON AND LAMAR COUNTIES AND ALL OF PIKE COUNTY.
A LAMAR COUNTY RESIDENT, RYAN CHRISTOPHER , HAD PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED HE WOULD RUN FOR THE SEAT IN THE JULY 31ST REPUBLICAN PRIMARY.
DURING A TUESDAY NEWS CONFERENCE, UPSON COUNTY COMMISSION CHAIRMAN MAURICE RAINES SAID THE DISTRICT ONE COMMISSION POST HAS BEEN VACATED AFTER SANDRA TRICE ENTERED A GUILTY PLEA FRIDAY IN UPSON SUPERIOR COURT. IT WILL BE OFFICIAL WHEN SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE CHRIS EDWARDS ISSUES AN ORDER LATER THIS WEEK TO BE SENT TO GOVERNOR NATHAN DEAL.
THE CHAIRMAN SAID AT THAT TIME, THE OFFICE OF THE PROBATE JUDGE WILL PROVIDE FOR AN APPOINTMENT FOR THE REMAINING MONTHS IN MS. TRICE’S TERM, A SPECIAL ELECTION WILL NOT BE NECESSARY. HE TOLD TGA NEWS HE HOPES THE APPOINTMENT CAN BE MADE PRIOR TO NEXT TUESDAY’S REGULAR MEETING.
