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  • 12Sep
    LCHA info, Meeting Updates Comments Off

    The Lumpkin County Homeowners Association (LCHA) will meet on Tuesday, September 28 at 7:00 PM in the meeting room of United Community Bank located on Morrison Moore Parkway across from the Post Office.

    Join us for lively discussion and updates on all the issues.  You are encouraged to share your concerns.  Candidates are encouraged to attend and participate in the discussion.

    We believe that working together we will be more effective at dealing with issues than we are as individuals going up against the challenges alone. Continue reading »

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  • 09Jul

    Chairman John Raber began the first Public Hearing on the budget with a failed attempt to keep people from speaking out.  He announced, “I will arrange for you to be the one to stand in front of an employee and tell him why he is losing his job if any of you think county jobs need to be eliminated.”  Before the meeting was over two hours later, several residents not only volunteered to take him up on it; they accused him of trying to intimidate them. Continue reading »

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  • 21Oct

    The Lumpkin County Homeowners Association (LCHA) will meet on Tuesday, October 27 at 6:00 PM in the meeting room of United Community Bank located on Morrison Moore Parkway across from the Post Office. Continue reading »

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  • 16Oct
    Commentary, Issues, News Comments Off

    Commissioners graciously accepted the Blackburn Park petition at the beginning of their Wednesday evening meeting.

    It seems that the official county form for petitions adopted in July by unanimous vote of the board was merely a recommendation and not a requirement.  Quotes from Commissioners in The Dahlonega Nugget article on October 14 continue to verify that they did not agree on what they voted for.

    It seems that they do now agree to accept petitions as required by the 1st Amendment of the United States Constitution.   Chairman Raber was quoted as saying,  …All we did was ask that people follow a form so petitions could be legitimized. Yet, the commissioners blindly approved a document that provides for $1,000 fines and imprisonment of up to five years. Continue reading »

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  • 09Oct
    News Comments Off

    Petition protest: Group to challenge BOC policy
    [By Sharon Hall. Originally published in The Dahlonega Nugget Wednesday, September 30, 2009]

    Lumpkin County Homeowners Association members plan to put the county’s new rules concerning petitions to the test at the next regular meeting of the board of commissioners Wednesday, Oct. 14. They voted last week to present a petition that does not conform to the new rules, opposing the harvesting of hardwood trees from the Blackburn Park property. Continue reading »

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