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VOLUME 137, NUMBER 145
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Thursday
July 26, 2007
The Home Journal’s
FRONT
PORCH
IN BRIEF
Informed Citizens
United to host forum
Informed Citizens United will
host a Community Forum at the
Nola Brantley Library on Watson
Boulevard in Warner Robins
Saturday from 10 a.m.-noon.
The forum, according to a release,
is designed to give county residents
the opportunity to express their feel
ings about the good and bad aspects
of living in today’s Houston County.
The meeting is open to the public.
Morningside to hold
election, meeting
Morningside Elementary School,
according to a release, will hold a
School Council election Aug. 29 at 6
p.m. (in the school’s lunchroom) for
one parent representative.
The first 2007-2008 Morningside
Elementary School Council meeting
will be held Sept. 5 at 7:30 a.m. in
the Professional Learning Lab.
Morningside is located at 1206
Morningside Drive in Perry. Principal
Pat Witt may be contacted either by
phone at 478-988-6261, Ext. 24260,
or by e-mail at pawitt@hcbe.net.
HCHS to provide
freshman orientation
Houston County High School will
host a freshman orientation Aug. 2
at 6:30 p.m. Incoming freshmen and
their parents, according to a release,
are invited to attend the open house
to receive important information on
school rules and procedures.
Also per the release, there will
not be an open house for students in
10th through 12th grades. To receive
their schedules, sophomores, juniors
and seniors should report to their
connection teacher on the first day
of classes, Aug. 6.
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Walgreens going up but historic
home becomes the cost of progress
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Journal Charlotte Perkins
This Perry home, which has been used as an insurance office by Eiwood Waites in recent
years, was built in the late 1930 s and is listed as a historic building by the Georgia Historic
Preservation Division. Plans are under way to demolish it to make way for the Washington
Street entrance to the new Walgreens which will be built in the parking lot area between
Washington, Ball and Commerce streets.
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
Pending the approval of the Perry Planning
Commission, the old Perry bungalow-style
home now known as the Eiwood Waites
Insurance Agency, will be torn down to make
way for an entrance to the Walgreens Drug
Store planned by the Paradise Development
Group.
Home invasion
duo now in jail
By RAYLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Both suspects in a July 18 morn-
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LORENZO
WILUS
Monday. Tolbert was arrested at his
Macon residence without incident
See DUO, page 6A
LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
ing home invasion
robbery on Bear
Branch Road in
Kathleen are now
behind bars.
Michael Dewayne
Willis, 29, of Fort
Valley, and David
L. Tolbert Jr., 33,
of Macon, are both
being held without
bond in the Houston
County Detention
Center on charges
of armed robbery
and kidnapping.
Willis turned
himself in Tuesday
afternoon at the
Houston County
Sheriffs Office.
Warrants for his
arrest were issued
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The Washington Street entrance to the pro
posed Walgreen store and parking area will
be opposite the Washington Street entrance
to the CVS drug store on the corner of
Washington and Commerce.
The Perry Downtown Development
Authority voted Tuesday night
not to oppose the demolition.
See WALGREENS, page 6A
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Police hunt 2 in
Fillers robbery
By RAYLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Perry Police are inves
tigating the armed rob
bery of the new Fillers on
Houston Lake Road.
According to Perry
Police Sgt. Ken Ezell, two
armed men entered the
store at 2390 S. Houston
Lake Road, at about 1:21
a.m.
Both, identified as black
males, wore colored latex
gloves, masks and hood
ies and were described as
being about 5-foot-11 to
6-foot tall and weighing
130 to 150 pounds.
The gunman had a dark
blue hoodie, a white filter
mask and sunglasses.
County sot to roise tax pate
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
If approved next
Tuesday, county taxpay
ers will be paying a little
more in taxes when the
tax bill comes.
How much is a little?
Approximately $3 more
for a SIOO,OOO house and
$7 more for a $200,000
home, according to
Commission Chairman
Ned Sanders.
He said at a hear
ing Wednesday that
the “slight, marginal
increase” in the millage
rate - to 9.45 - mills is
up 1.39 percent from last
year’s rate of 9.32 mills
and 1.6 percent above the
rollback rate of 9.3 mills.
He also said the increase
would cost about 25 cents
a month for the owner of
a SIOO,OOO home and 59
cents for the owner of a
$200,000.
“That’s not too bad,”
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he said.
The total net increase,
with the county raising its
millage rate 0.13 mills and
the school board reduc
ing its rate to 0.03 mills
- from 12.5 to 12.47 mills
- is a 10th of a mill, which
Sanders said, equals $3.
Residents in the unincor
porated areas of Houston
County will also see a
reduction in the county
fire tax millage rate.
County Administrator
Steve Engle said the fire
tax would drop from 1.19
mills to 1.18 mills.
“We’re bringing enough
in that we can lower it,”
Engle said.
“We face increasing
pressure in the increase
cost of goods an services,”
Sanders said, explaining
the need for the tax rate
increase, saying those
“are factors beyond our
control.”
The commissioners
See RATE, page iL4
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and light
blue latex gloves.
The other suspect had
a grey hoodie, black ski
mask, purple latex gloves
and a black aluminum
baseball bat.
The suspects forced the
clerk to give up an undis
closed amount of cash and
left on foot in an unknown
direction.
The robbery was
See ROBBERY, page 6A
Adrian
Chase
works
on an art
project
during an
art camp
held at the
Perry Arts
Alliance
Center this
past week.
For more,
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