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County considering tax increase
by Ray Lightner
May 22, 2013 | 2 2 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
Spalding County is considering a property tax increase to balance the budget and avoid employee furloughs or salary cuts. A millage rate increase is one of the possibilities the county is consider...
City OKs water agreement with county
by Ray Lightner
May 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
The current water sales agreement between Griffin, Spalding County and the Spalding County Water and Sewerage Facilities Authority expires in 2020. Both sides have been looking for an extended ag...
Griffin OKs more money for the airport
by Ray Lightner
May 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
The City of Griffin approved almost a quarter million dollars for the Griffin-Spalding Airport this fiscal year. The $225,600 in for the airport’s operating budget is to buy more fuel. Airport Di...

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    Boy Scouts statue titled Trail to Manhood outside the National Scouting Museum in IrvingBy Marice Richter GRAPEVINE, Texas (Reuters) - The Boy Scouts of America will vote on Thursday on a proposal to remove its ban on openly gay scouts that has been in place throughout the organization's 103-year history. The vote by more than 1,400 delegates comes amid intense lobbying by gay-rights activists and members of conservative organizations. The proposal would not remove the organization's ban on gay adult leaders. Representatives from both sides have rallied in Grapevine, Texas, near Dallas, where the scouting organization is hosting its national annual meeting. ...


    Thu May 23 12:36:01 UTC 2013

    Mourners leave the first memorial service for a child killed by the tornado that struck Plaza Towers elementary school in Oklahoma CityBy Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Hundreds of people gathered in stormy weather on Thursday to mourn a 9-year-old girl who loved to sing, dance and paint, as funerals began for 24 victims of a massive tornado that obliterated whole sections of Moore, Oklahoma. Antonia Lee "Tonie" Candelaria was one of seven students killed at Plaza Towers Elementary when a tornado packing winds of 200 miles per hour slammed into the building on Monday afternoon just before school was to have let out. Plaza Towers and another elementary school in the path of the tornado did not have storm shelters. ...


    Thu May 23 13:00:59 UTC 2013

    Candidates hold U.S. flags during a naturalization ceremony to become new U.S. Citizens at Convention Center in Los AngelesBy Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Supporters of U.S. immigration reform are hoping that the smooth and drama-free passage of their legislation through a Senate committee - a departure from almost everything that has happened in Congress over the past four years - will boost the likelihood of the bill winning full Senate approval. Even Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, the senior Republican on the Judiciary Committee who voted against the immigration bill on Tuesday, told Reuters TV that the "very fair" debate by the panel "does improve its chances. ...


    Wed May 22 18:29:42 UTC 2013
    A year after Superstorm Sandy, residents along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts should prepare for "an extremely active" hurricane season in 2013, U.S. forecasters say. There will be between three and six major hurricanes this year with winds above 111 m.p.h., according to the 2013 hurricane outlook unveiled by the National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration's [...]
    Thu May 23 13:56:38 UTC 2013
    MOORE, Okla. — Some of the photos are crumpled. Others coated in crud. But what the monster tornado couldn’t obliterate are the memories captured in the images. A girl playing kitchen with her pink toy stove. Colleagues clowning around the office. A father posing with his young girls at a daddy-daughter dance. “These are things [...]
    Thu May 23 13:10:56 UTC 2013
    MOORE, Okla.—As a helicopter pilot for KCAL-TV in Los Angeles, Jim Gardner had flown over deadly mudslides and earthquakes, covered car chases and was shot at by snipers during the L.A. riots. Yet Gardner is best known for giving the world its first glimpse of O.J. Simpson’s infamous white Bronco leading police on a low-speed [...]
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