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6A ♦ TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2006 SCAM From page iA 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. Subscribe today! Call 987-1823 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 From page iA 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 . n is . - m ■ HtaipWv ~ f \ BROADBAND so>l Q R K Y month 4mw^w GREAT VALUE! 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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 HIGH-SPEED INTERNET: DOWNLOAD FIGHT SONGS RESEARCH PAPERS ONLINE 30-DAY SATISFACTION GUARANTEE '*. .=\«pßrtA? vy *h} aaßßßEgggßftrt; ; 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 f h’r su \ih> ri /v’/f /z /xvs There's nothing quite like walking outside and taking a deep breath of fresh, clean air after a thunderstorm. Wouldn i you like to be able to step buck inside and enjoy that same fresh air all the time? 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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.” People Pleasing! (We wil! delight you 1) wmiMOB. »-?S Kslt IJf • M7-M77 PHONE BROADBAND DIGITAL TV A/V communications Brow places