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Vol. 123 No. 24
Your Newspaper - Toombs, Montgomery & Wheeler County, Georgia
June 16, 2021
Formula for
success: rise early,
work hard, strike oil.
- J. Paul Getty
News
BYTES
From Pandemic
to Prosperity
Job Fair
"Employment Fair
2021: From Pandemic
to Prosperity-
Bridging Talent with
Opportunity," will be
held Wednesday, June
23, 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. at
Southeastern Technical
College. The event
is being sponsored
by STC, the Greater
Vidalia Chamber
of Commerce and
the Toombs County
Development Authority.
For information
or to register, call
538-3207; on-line
contact, lhelms@
southeasterntech. edu.
(See article, page 14A.)
Disk Golf Course
Ribbon-Cutting
A ribbon cutting for
the Disk Golf Course at
Partin Park is planned
for June 17 at 5 p.m.
behind the Octagon
House at the park.
Alumni Soccer
Match
This Friday night in The
Pit an alumni soccer
match between Lyons
and Vidalia will be held.
Former soccer players
from each school will
take the field at 7:00
p.m. for bragging rights.
Admission to the game
is $5 per person, with
all proceeds to be
split between the two
programs.
IN THIS ISSUE
Editorials Page 5A
Obituaries Page7A
From the Record Page 10A
Your Mind On Line Page 10A
Sports Page 1 B
State Poised to Clear Old Rail Line;
Amberwood Resident Voices Concern
By Deborah Clark
Regional Editor
dclarkadvance@gmail.com
A Georgia Department
of Transportation (GDOT)-
sponsored project to clean up
about five miles of an old rail
road line running through Vi
dalia has some residents of Am
berwood Subdivision worried.
A news release issued May
11 announced that GDOT is
scheduled to begin a railroad
corridor rehabilitation project
starting in the City of Vidalia at
U.S. Highway 280/West First
Street in Toombs County and
eventually progressing south
ward into Montgomery Coun
ty-
The project consists of
clearing thick, overgrown veg
etation from 25 feet on each
side from the centerline of the
railroad tracks to stop further
deterioration of the rail line.
“The environmentally sound
and sensitive project restricts
digging out vegetation so as
not to disturb ground eleva
tions and follows streamside
Please see Rail page 4A
ABANDONED TRACK - Amberwood Subdivision residents Betty and Phil Moxley point out the old railway in
close proximity to their home. The Moxleys have maintained the vegetation between their yard and the
adjacent tracks for safety and aesthetic reasons for years, They are fearful thaf fhe state's new interest
in the old railbed might threaten their peaceful neighborhood,
Montgomery County Seeking
To Create Board of Elections
By Makaylee Randolph
Contributing Writer
Montgomery County is
moving toward changes that
will help elections go more
smoothly and ease the work
load of the Probate Judge.
Currently elections in
Montgomery County are
overseen through a collec
tive effort between Regis
trar Bobbie Carpenter, who
oversees voter registration
and absentee ballots, and
Probate Judge Rubie Nell
Sanders, who acts as the
election superintendent and
oversees the staffing for elec
tions, advance voting, and
election day activities.
Please see MoCo page 10A
Photo by Makaylee Randolph
OVERWHELMING TASK - Probate Judge Ru
bie Nell Sanders, who serves as Montgomery
County's election superintendent and over
sees staffing for elections, advance voting,
and Election Day activities is looking forward
to transitioning her election duties to a county
Board of Elections. Above, she stands in front a
desk stacked with election paperwork and poll
pads that are awaiting processing,
Lyons Housing Authority Secures
$500,000 Grant from HUD
The Lyons Housing
Authority has received
$500,000 from the U.S.
Department of Hous
ing and Urban Develop
ment to clean up lead
paint hazards in public
housing. The local allo
cation was part of nearly
$51.4 million awarded
to 25 public housing
agencies in 19 states and
was the only one made
in the state of Georgia.
The funds are ear
marked to identify and
reduce lead-paint based
paint hazards in thou
sands of older public
housing units. Provided
through HUD’s Public
Housing Capital Fund,
these grants will be tar
geted for public hous
ing units currently oc
cupied by families with
young children.
Shawnee M. Gunn,
Executive Director for
the Lyons Housing Au
thority, noted that the
Please see Lyons page 3A
Libraries Are
Fully Open
SUMMER STORY TIME IS BACK! - Children and par
ents alike are glad for story time at the Library. Jen
nifer Jones, Library Clerk, reads The Squirrels Who
Squabbled to a group of attentive listeners. The
11a.m. Monday Story time is also on Facebook live
at Ohoopee Regional Library System, Jones is study
ing for her Master's in Library Science to be a chil
dren's librarian.
By Rebekah Arnold
Contributing Writer
"The only thing that
you absolutely have to
know is the location of the
library," declared Albert
Einstein. The German-
bom theoretical physicist
had no idea how, decades
after his time, the local
library location and the
internet would team up
to expand the value and
usefulness of the library
even more.
Activities at public
libraries for adults and
children happen year-
round, but summertime
ushers in more hands-
on opportunities for all
ages, including those for
families to explore to
gether. During 2020, vir
tual access at home, or
at community hotspots,
became the most promi
nent method for reading,
learning, and business
transactions.
To agree with Ein-
Please see Libraries page
9A
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