A Centre man has been arrested on a charge of manufacturing methamphetamine.
Officers with the Alabama State Probation Office, with agents from the Cherokee County Narcotics Unit and the Sheriff’s Department – executed a Probation Violation Warrant, at the home of 32 year old Charles Monroe Edwards III.
Upon executing the warrant and clearing the residence at 13905 U.S. 411 North in Centre authorities discovered a meth lab.
Edwards was taken into custody and was charged with both a Probation Violation and the Unlawful Manufacture of Methamphetamine 2nd Degree
WEIS
AFTER SUFFERING THROUGH YEARS OF DROUGHT, 2009 WAS A VERY WET YEAR… TO PUT IT MILDLY. A ONCE-IN-500-YEAR FLOOD IN SEPTEMBER HELPED PUT OUR RAINFALL TOTAL OVER-THE-TOP HERE AT WQCH… WHERE WE RECORDED JUST SHORT OF 89 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION FOR THE YEAR.
TO PUT THAT IN PERSPECTIVE… THE 2009 TOTAL IS 28 INCHES HIGHER THAN THE PREVIOUS YEAR… AND MORE THAN 50 INCHES HIGHER THAN A VERY DRY 2007.
WQCH
New Year’s Holiday Traffic Count
NEW YEAR’S HOLIDAY PERIOD
6 p.m. Thursday – midnight Sunday, January 3, 2010
78 Hours
|
HOLIDAY COUNT |
CRASHES |
INJURIES |
DEATHS |
|
Current Count |
1,450 |
304 |
9 |
|
Estimates |
2,330 |
1,004 |
16 |
|
2008-09 Experience* |
2,998 |
1,222 |
22 |
*102-hour holiday period
NEW YEAR’S HOLIDAY PERIOD FATALITIES
By GSP Troops
Troop A (2): GSP Cartersville; Cherokee Co. Sheriff’s Dept.
Troop B (1): Winder Police
Troop C (0):
Troop D (1): Bibb Co. Sheriff’s Dept.
Troop E (3): GSP Madison (2); Elbert Co. Sheriff’s Dept.
Troop F (0):
Troop G (1): GSP Thomasville
Troop H (0):
Troop I (1): Savannah-Chatham Metro Police
The holiday traffic count is updated periodically each day of the holiday period and is a safety initiative of the Georgia State Patrol and the Crash Reporting Unit of the Georgia Department of Transportation
mr. Murl Hammond, age 73, of myrtle Beach, South Carolina, passed away Friday, January 1, 2010 in Georgetown, South Carolina. He was born March 28, 1936 in Fyfe, Alabama. He was the son of the late Milton Elijah and Mary Etta Henson Hammond. he was self-employed and a member of the Church of God. Mr. Hammond was preceeded in death by brothers, Marchman Hammond, David Hammond, Grover Hammond, Elijah R Hammond, Edward hammond, sisters Katie pike, Vesta Pike, Lottie Richardson, Gladys Mozzella.
Survivors incldue brothers and sisters-in-law, George and Agnes Hammond, Trion, GA, his twin Earl and Reoberta Hammond, Pensacola, FL, sisters and brothers-in-law, Mary Clayton, Cartersville, GA, Clois and John Hicks, Dalton, GA, Lois and carl Anderson, Summerville, GA, Hazel and Albert Garret, Litchfield, Ky, special niece and nephew, Terra Turner, Larry Nelson, special friend, Shirley Sellers.
Funeral service will be held at 2:00pm Sunday, January 3, 2010, from the Mason Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Andy Hutchens officiating with interment in the West Hill Cemetary. Active pallbearers, Kyle Shepard, William Browning, todd Browning, Houston Hammond, Toni Dowdy, Carl Anderson.
Mr. Hammond will be in state at the Mason Funeral Home and the family witll receive friends from 6 to 8pm Saturday, January 2, 2010.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Associated Press announced their all-state teams last week. The AJC`s all-state team was picked this year by GHSF Daily. Todd Holcomb, a former AJC sports writer, has coordinated the selection of the AJC`s team the past three years.
The AP team is chosen by a panel of Georgia sports writers.
- Here are local players who made first-team all-state in Class AA:
- Player of the year: Da`Rick Rodgers, Calhoun (AP)
- Player of the year: B.J. Bostic, Jefferson County (AJC)
- QB: Nash Nance, Calhoun (AP)
- WR: Da`Rick Rogers, Calhoun (AP, AJC)
- OL: Kyle Harris, Pepperell (AP)
- OL: Catlin Alford, Adairsville (AP)
- PK: Adam Griffith, Calhoun (AP)
- PK: Tommy Harris, Armuchee (AJC)
- DL: Catlin Alford, Adairsville (AJC)
- LB: Victor Beasley, Adairsville (AP, AJC)
- LB: Kedron Aker, Calhoun (AP, AJC)
- RET: Senorise Perry, Chattooga (AP)
AP honorable mention: Dustin Christian, Calhoun;
AJC honorable mention: QB Nash Nance, Calhoun; LB Jake Schmidt, Armuchee; ATH Senorise Perry
Coosa Valley News
According to a study by the Pew Research Center Georgia is ranked the ninth most relgious state in the United States. Of the Georgians polled 86% said that religion was `very imporant` to them.
The poll rankes states on four questions: the importance of religion in people`s lives, frequency of attendance at worship services, frequency of prayer and absolute certainty of belief in God.
The Top 10 are as follows: Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, South Carolina, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Georgia and Kentucky.
Georgia ranked 14th in worship attendance and eighth in both prayer and belief in God.
Overall, 90 percent of Americans said they believed in God or some form of `universal spirit`.
Coosa Valley News
Bobby Winters
Catoosa County commissioner Bobby Winters wants to halt construction of Georgia Northwestern Technical College’s satellite campus on Cloud Springs Road in Catoosa.
Winters said much of the site — at the intersection of Dietz and Cloud Springs roads — is in a flood plain, which is an area prone to flooding.
“Whenever you build on a flood plain,” Winters said, “the water has to go somewhere, and Mitchell Acres is across from the site.”
Winters is seeking a stop-work order on construction.
He said that because the location of the site is in his district, he is obligated to protect the people in his district from potential flooding. He said the Mitchell Acres subdivision is already prone to flooding.
He said a private business or industry would not be able to build on the site because it is built on a flood plain.
“It’s like we’ve got two sets of standards,” Winters said.
County Board of Commissioners chairman Keith Greene said that isn’t the case. He said this is the first time Winters opposed the college being built at the Dietz Road site.
In April, the county voted unanimously to approve a letter of intent with Georgia Northwestern to build a cam-pus on the site.
The letter included the county donating the tract of land to Georgia Northwestern and required the college to have a site study performed and to obtain any required permits.
“I want people to understand that we’re not doing anything with this property that is illegal,” Greene said.
State Republican Sen. Jeff Mullis of Chickamauga said he was “surprised” by the news of Winters pursuing the stop-work order.
“Georgia Northwestern has strongly considered Catoosa as its next location for a campus,” Mullis said. “When commissioners make these types of comments, the state can see a problem.”
The state of Georgia has invested $3 million into the project. Mullis and state Republican Rep. Jay Neal hope to acquire bonds from the Georgia General Assembly to further fund the project
Greene said there is no reason for Winters to pursue the stop-work order because no work has yet to be done on the site. He said although some of the 37-acre site is in a flood plain, the campus is expected to be 65,000 square feet.
“The campus won’t take up the entire site,” Greene said.
Asked about pursuing a campus at another location, Winters said he had been pushing for more than five years to get a college on the Benton Place campus off Battlefield Parkway.
“I would love to see a college (on the Benton Place campus),” Winters said. “It would cost less and it wouldn’t be built on a swamp.”
Winters said it would be costly to clear, pave and bring a sewerage system to the Dietz Road site. He said Geor-gia Northwestern could build behind The Colonnade, which is on the Benton Place campus, for a lower cost to the county.
He said a multi-level building could accommodate the college’s need for space — a reason for the college to be built on the Dietz Road site.
“We could work something out,” Winters said.
Craig McDaniel, president of Georgia Northwestern, will not comment on the issue until the first of the year.
Walker County Messenger
Mr. Lorenzo (Pete) Wilson, ate 81, a resident of Bittings Avenue Summerville, Georgia passed away Friday (January 1, 2010) morning at his residence. Born in Duttono, Alabama on October 16, 1928, he was a son of the late James Aubrey Wilson, Sr. and Lena Ave Eva Gibson Wilson. Mr. Wilson wa a member and Deacon of Midway Baptist Church, was retired from the needling department of Georgia Rug Mill and was retired used car dealer.
Surviving are his wife,Jane Wilson; son and daughter-in-law-Mike and Beverly Wilson of Summerville; grandchildren, Lori Powell, Lee Wilson, and Kim Wilson; great grandchildren, Kristen Hines and Devan Powell; sisters, Claudine Fowler of Hernando, FL., Maughee Evans of Trion, Montez Gladney of Summerville,and Joan Renslow of Summerville; brother, Charles B. Wilson of Summerville; several Neices and Nephews also survive.
Funeral services will be held Sunday, January 3rd, at 2pm from the J.D. Hill Memorial Chapel of Earle Rainwater Funeral Home with Rev. Larry Brooks and Rev. Billy Dempsey officiating, interment in Greenhills Memory Gardens.
Active Pallbearers include: Rex Evans, Jamie Renslow, Quinton Wilson, Gary Duke, Preston Greer and Tracy Rainwater; Honorary Pallbearers include: members of Midway Baptist Church, John (Monk) Groover, and Charles Padgett. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Saturday, January 2, from 6 until 8pm.
Catoosa County sheriff Phil Summers said the shooting of a truck driver traveling along I-75 Tuesday may have been accidental.
“We’re looking into the investigation from all angles,” Summers said today, “and it’s anticipated that the bullet came from an accidental hunting or target practice mishap.”
But the investigation is ongoing and no conclusions have been drawn, he cautioned.
Summers said the investigation will include interviewing those living in neighborhoods where the shooting oc-curred.
George F. McKeever, a truck driver from Floral City, Fla., was shot in the arm Tuesday afternoon with a bullet from a high-powered rifle. He was driving along I-75 at the time. The bullet went through the passenger’s side win-dow and struck him in the arm. The incident occurred near exit 350 on I-75 at Battlefield Parkway.
McKeever was taken to Erlanger hospital for evaluation and is expected to fully recover.
According to the Catoosa County Sheriff’s Office, “At approximately 4:30 p.m. on December 29, Catoosa County 911 Center received a call from East Ridge Police Department in reference to a shooting incident that occurred in Catoosa County. Catoosa County officers met with East Ridge Police officers at the Tennessee Welcome Center on I-75 in East Ridge. Information was obtained that apparently a truck driver traveling north on I-75 was injured when a bullet shattered the passenger’s side window and struck him in the right arm.”
Rome News Tribune