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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...
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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...
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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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NASCAR K&N Pro Series East driver — and Spalding High junior — Jacob Wallace leans on his car before his race at Richmond International Raceway in Richmond, Va. last month. Flanking Wallace is his car chief Wayne Hansard (with equipment) and crew members Jody Wilkinson of Griffin and Brandon Brillant of McDonough. (Photo courtesy of Tracy Wallace)
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Griffin native Jacob Wallace, finishing up his junior year at Spalding High, participated in his first NASCAR K&N Pro Series East race of the year on April 25 at Richmond International Speedway in ...
Max Gresham, who races in the truck series, has family ties in both the Milner and Sunny Side areas. (Photo courtesy of Eddie Sharp Racing)
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CONCORD, N.C. — It was difficult for Griffin, Ga. native Max Gresham to pinpoint his favorite part of Friday’s North Carolina Education Lottery 200 at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Certainly a car...
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By 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
By 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
By Jane Sutton MIAMI (Reuters) - Military and civilian lawyers for prisoners at the Guantanamo naval base urged U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to improve conditions for detainees, putting more pressure on the Obama administration to make good its promise to close the camp. The plea from 18 lawyers representing "high-value" prisoners came before a speech by President Barack Obama on Thursday when he will address counterterrorism measures such as drone strikes and closing Guantanamo. ...
Wed May 22 22:30:47 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 [...]
Thu May 23 12:52:27 UTC 2013
Five-year-old Tatum Raetz was cheered on by hundreds of police officers Wednesday at her kindergarten graduation. What was going to be a happy occasion took a heart-breaking, tragic turn when her father, Phoenix Police Officer Daryl Raetz, was struck and killed by a car Sunday during a DUI arrest. The officers were there "in proxy [...]
Thu May 23 12:20:46 UTC 2013
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