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Signature collection for a petition to allow package sales of distilled spirits in Lumpkin County continues. Petitions will be available at most meetings. Please help bring the tax currently being paid by Lumpkin County residents back to our county. For more information contact Emily Lewy at 706-864-4613. <emily@lumpkinsunshine.com>
Special BOC WORK SESSION on recycling will take place on February 22 at 6:00 PM in the Lumpkin County Administration Building (the former courthouse). Continue reading »
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by Emily Lewy
It appears that the Dahlonega City Council jumped the gun in making charges against a fellow council member without first getting all the facts. More than six weeks after a public statement alleging improprieties, they still have not charged him with any specific act of wrong doing. What they have done is create an atmosphere of intimidation and they have made disparaging remarks in public against their fellow member.
By allowing Councilman Ariemma to be tried and convicted in the newspaper, council members have done what they accuse him of doing. An ordinary man, and especially a guilty man, could be expected to consider a request for his resignation a threat when it immediately followed a public accusation. Such a tactic might work on some ordinary elected official, but Johnny Ariemma is not ordinary. He is as principled and straight an arrow as anybody you will ever find. Those fellows should have known that he would not be bullied; but then, they are not used to a man like Johnny. Continue reading »
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Macon’s Freudenberg recycles plastic bottles into roofing material
By RODNEY MANLEY
On the floor of the Freudenberg Texbond plant in south Macon, dozens of 1-ton sacks of plastic flakes — chipped from bottles of Coke, Pepsi, Mountain Dew and other soft drinks, along with a few amber beer empties — sit in rows divided by color.
The brown bags are from Canada, the green from Mexico.
“We just can’t get enough in the States, so we have to buy it from other places,” said CEO Richard Shaw. Continue reading »
by Emily Lewy
The Lumpkin County Parks and Recreation Department and The Georgia Mountains YMCA will hold two public hearings at Park & Rec, 365 Riley Road, Dahlonega to receive comments on the YMCA proposed management of the County Park & Rec programs and operations.
Public Hearing times are: Monday, November 15 at 7:00 PM and Thursday, November 18 at 9:00 AM. Continue reading »
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