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♦ TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2006
SCAM
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and cut down some trees
but never completed the
job,” Williams explained.
“It appears Mr. Adams col
lects money down and starts
the work but never comes
back to complete the job,”
Williams said.
Both parties on the con
tract agreed the victim paid
Adams a down payment and
would pay the remaining
balance when the job was
completed. “This leaves the
victim’s yards a mess and
leaves them with the respon
sibility of hiring someone
else to come in to complete
the job and clean up the
brush.”
Adams is signing con
tracts with these victims
under the business name of
Middle Georgia Tree Service.
There have been a number
of reports filed in the past
four years of similar inci
• dents involving Adams and
Middle Georgia Tree Service
in Houston County.
Williams said he is still
researching the company
name to see who the owner
is, but Adams is the one
signing the contracts.
After Adams’ arrest, there
have been several more
victims come forward and
report similar incidents,
Williams said. “More charges
are expected to be filed later
this week.”
“These are reported inci
dents,” Williams said, “it is
unknown how many times
this has happened and the
victims have not reported it
to law enforcement.”
Anyone with information
on these or who have
been victims of this scam
are asked to call Williams
at the Houston County
Sheriffs Office Criminal
Invesitigation Division at
(478) 542-2085.
DEALER
From page iA
Department Narcotics
Investigation Unit, said “we
worked it about six months.
Allen was head of the organi
zation at the time.”
Watson estimated: “The
organization probably
brought in a pound a week
of methamphetamine to the
Middle Georgia area. The
drugs came from the Atlanta
area, were broke down in
Athens and distributed to
Macon and Warner Robins.”
The joint investigation
originally led to 16 indict
ments. “All but one have
pled,” Watson said. “It
worked out pretty well.”
Watson thanked Athens-
Clark County and Jones
County sheriffs depart
ments and the district attor
ney offices from Bibb and
Houston counties, for their
work in the investigation
and well as the U.S. District
Attorney’s Office.
FAIR
From page iA
■ In another meeting ear
. Her, a Capital Request to
the Office of Planning and
Budget was submitted to
expand the livestock and
horse facilities - a $24 mil
lion dollar project - and
a request for more than
$500,000 in needed equip
ment.
According to Froehlich,
these improvements are
needed to allow the facil
ity to “grow and expand” so
that the Perry Fairgrounds
and Agricenter can “main
tain and increase market
share. There is an economic
impact to be realized,” he
said.
Correction
In Friday’s Houston Daily
Journal story “Pine boxed,”
Clarence Copeland said he
was incorrectly identified
as the owner of Oak Level
Cemetery. Copeland said the
church, Oak Level Baptist
Church, owns the cemetery
and he is one of 10 deacons
at the church.
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Moratorium for developments off dirt roads
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Houston County will be
controlling the growth in
areas of the county where
dirt roads are concentrated
- for at least 90 days.
The county commission,
during its meeting last week,
unanimously approved a 90-
day moratorium for all sub
divisions off dirt roads. In
a memo to the county com
mission County Building
Official Tim Andrews
requested the moratorium
for residential and commer
cial subdivisions and the fil
ing of zoning requests that
will adjoin or be accessible
from a county dirt road so
CONCERNS
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Commission Chairman Ned
Sanders explained the coun
ty can’t do any work of any
kind out there. “It is a tem
porary state road. They own
it for the time being.”
County Director of
Operations Tommy
Stalnaker agreed with
Vaughn.
“It is beyond deplorable.
If we had jurisdiction, we
would get it done. It’s frus
trating to me to see it like
that.”
Stalnaker noted because
of liability issued the county
cannot go out there to put
a street sign back up. He
pledged to call someone at
the DOT and get something
done. “I’ll express your com
ments to the state folks.”
Stalnaker noted that once
county gets the road, now
set for December, “we have
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that some regulations can
be drafted.
Andrews noted the coun
ty’s comprehensive land
development regulations
currently do not address
subdivisions off unpaved
roads. “The need to better
manage the growth in these
areas is needed,” Andrews
told the board in the memo.
Commissioner Larry
Thomson made the motion
for the moratorium, “so
we can better handle the
growth problem.”
The motion was second
ed by Commissioner Tom
McMichael, who said “if it
is not resolved in 90 days,
we’ll renew it until it is.”
McMichael noted “the
an inmate work crew dedi
cated to keeping it mowed,
picked up and clean.”
Sanders noted crepe
myrtles have already been
planted at the north end of
the project. “It’s the begin
ning of what we’ll do.”
The commission also
voted send a list of 20 road
projects to the state DOT for
the 2007 Local Assistance
Roads Program.
“We don’t get all of these,”
Sanders said.
“It will depend on the
how the project fits money
wise.”
We’ll probably get five or
six miles,” Stalnaker said.
Sanders told the audience
“this is some of your money
paid in motor fuel taxes com
ing back to the community.
This is for resurfacing, not
the paving of dirt roads.
Stalnaker noted thee
state furnishes the asphalt
and contracts out the pav
ing. On of the recent LARP
LOCAL
money is not there” for the
county to pave the roads to
keep up with the current
growth.
Commission Chairman
Ned Sanders noted at
Tuesday’s meeting the mor
atorium was “90 days from
today, to give us time to put
any restrictions on it, and to
make it fair.”
Commissioner Jay Walker
asked for and got clear
ance for County Attorney
Mike Long that it was not
a conflict of interest that
Walker owned property off
a dirt road. The county also
signed off on two annexa
tion requests for the city of
Perry. The county did object
to one of the proposed rezon-
projects, a portion of Moody
road, was done quickly.
The projects include - Old
Perry Road from Ga. 96 to
Sandy Run Road, Grovania
Road from Pyles Road to
Elko Road, Story Road from
Dunbar Road to Elberta
Road, N. Tamie Circle from
Houston Lake Road to S.
Tamie Circle, Lake Joy
Road from Ga. 96 to Ga.
127, Tidwell Road from
Moody Road to Mt. Zion
Road, Wimberly Road from
U.S. 341 until the pavement
ends, Horseshoe Drive
beginning and ending at
Heritage Drive, Whitley
Drive from Sullivan Drive
to Pike Acres, Flournoy
Road from Pitts Road to
Fuller Road, Cliff Howard
Drive from Morning Dove
to Dove Cove, Wrasling
Way from Houston Lake
Road to Peach Blossom
Trail, Wellston Circle off
Houston Lake Road, Ola
Circle from Elberta Road to
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ings for the annexations.
The commissioners did
not object to the annexation
and rezoning of 66.5 acres
on Thompson Road, west
of Interstate 75. The appli
cant, the Knight Group of
Jonesboro, wanted the prop
erty rezoned from county
Residential-Agricultural
to Perry Planned Use
Development for the second
phase of Walker Farm sub
division.
According the site draw
ing, 282 lots, 80 feet by 100
feet, are proposed with about
4.25 lots per acre and 10
feet between the dwellings.
Phase I, already annexed by
Perry, has about 126 acres
with 406 60 by 100-foot lots
Mason Drive, Pinedale Drive
from Corder Road to the
dead end, Willingham Drive
from Moody Road to Mt.
Zion Road, Lake Drive from
Leverette Road to Nelson
Drive, and Habersham
Lane from Hampton Way
to the dead end.
Commissioner Tom
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proposed.
Tire commissioners object
ed to the Perry’s PUD zon
ing for 41 acres on Wooden
Eagle Trail off Lake Joy
Road, but did not object
to Perry’s annexation.
McMichael said “it doesn’t
fit the pattern for a PUD.”
“I agree with Tom,”
Walker said, “leave it what
it is R-2 and R-3.”
Charlie McGlamry of
Centerville made the
request, to rezone the tract
from county R-2 to Perry
PUD, but no site plan with
the number of dwellings,
units per acres, set backs
and buffers was provided to
the county with the request
from the city.
McMichael noted “no com
missioner lives on any of
these roads.”
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