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Huntington Middle School was host to some special visitors Tuesday when two buses arrived with education stakeholders from across the state.
The local school was one of 13 stops on the 16th annual Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education Bus Trip Across Georgia that serves to
honor achieving schools and programs and showcases best practices that might be adaptable elsewhere. ABOVE: Dr. Gwen Taylor addresses the
group. BELOW: The buses arrive.
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County changes two street names; sets moratorium on sign permits
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Managing Editor
Freddy Krueger might
have been mad. Nobody
else was (nobody spoke out
“against” at least.)
Elm Street is no more, or at
least any Elm Street’s in the
“county” portion of Houston
County. (Elm Street in Perry
is safe.)
The Houston County
Commissioners voted unani
mously Tuesday during their
regular meeting to change
the name of Elm Street to
West Houston. They also
voted to change Brown Drive
to Holiday Street.
“This originally came
from the private roads com
mittee,” explained County
Attorney Tom Hall in regard
to why. He also noted it was
tabled about a year ago until
further study could be done.
(And by the way, for those
Maker: Warning system under way
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Managing Editor
How long did it take the
county to mobilize once it
found out the referendum
for an All Hazards Warning
System for Houston County
had passed Nov. 4?
“At 8:15 a.m., Nov. 5”
said County Director
of Operations * Tommy
Stalnaker to the Vision 2020
Advisory Board during its
meeting Thursday at the
County Annex. “I received
a telephone call. I’m going
to hold the name but I think
you’ll be able to figure out
who it was (if not Houston
County Commission
Chairman Ned Sanders, it’s
a mystery).
“’I just want you to know
we need to start imple
mentation today on the All
Hazards Warning System,”’
Stalnaker said the person
on the other end of the line
said (once again presumably
Sanders).
Since that day, Stalnaker
said, he and Emergency
Management Director Chief
Jimmy Williams have been
“conferring.”
“Over the next 45-60
days,” he explained, “we
expect to have more mate
rial to tell you where we’re
at and where we’re going.
As far as timelines, it takes
an awful lot of people to
pull this together. That’s the
beginning, pulling together
all the various consultants
and engineers and various
experts in the field.”
“It has not laid dormant
since the election Nov. 4 and
that voice I can’t imagine will
let it. He wanted to ensure
who didn’t know, Freddy
Krueger is the monster
in the horror movie series
Nightmare on Elm Street.)
“To determine which roads
are public and which are pri
vate.” He also noted that
where the former Elm Street
indicated a sharp turn on
county maps it was instead a
“gentle curve”.
“This is an area of growth,”
he said. Based on the let
ters sent out, approximately
11 families will be affect
ed. “This will help in that
growth.”
It will also help avoid con
fusion in regard to 911, sher
iff, fire and/or ambulance
responses, “or anything else,”
Chairman Commissioner
Ned Sanders said.
“It’s to straighten up and
clarify some of our older
records,” Sanders said.
“(They’ve) been overgrown
we were proceeding ahead.
He has pushed forward. He
made a pledge to the citizens
when this was voted on (that
if it was approved) it was
going to happen and happen
in a timely manner. I can
assure you, with him pulling
the train it’s going to hap
pen and going to happen in
a timely manner.”
Whereas that is pushing
forward, a couple of other
items on the advisory board’s
agenda were voted to be put
on hold - at least until those
who could speak to them
had something to report.
Laws governing low-speed
vehicles was one. Dual use of
Robins AFB’s runway (the
vision to have a civilian ter
minal outside its gates).
In regard to the vehicles,
“We really haven’t had a
public outcry,” said Warner
Robins Police Department
Operations Division'
Commander Maj. John
Wagner, “as far as vehi
cles riding up and down in
Warner Robins. Gas prices
have come down. About the
only place we’ve seen them
is on Davis Drive.
“So we’ve had no change
in legislation. It’s been a
mute point in the city. We’ve
had absolutely no complaints
on that. No accidents have
occurred. We’ve had no inju
ries or incidents, so it’s been
pretty much a mute point.”
On the runway, Centerville
Mayor Bubba Edwards
echoed what he had said last
meeting in that there had
been no new progress. He
also added he knew the City
of Warner Robins and the
county were tied up in the
Bus trip across Georgia
with the passage of time.
This brings them in line with
modern surveying and map
ping we have today.”
Another action the commis
sioners voted unanimously to
approve was the adoption of
a 30-day moratorium on the
issuance of any sign permits
in unincorporated Houston
County. In conjunction with
that, they voted to adver
tise for a public hearing on
an amendment to Section 97
of the Comprehensive Land
Development Regulations on
signs.
Background on this - Hall
referred to it as “technical
problems” - was the county
was slated to hold a public
hearing on this Sept. 2. Or,
that was the date advertised.
However, according to the
commissioners’ handout for
the meeting, Planning and
Zoning requested additional
G-RAMP project.
“One plumb at a time,”
Edwards said.
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Neal Hilton
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Special to the Journal
During its board meeting
Nov. 11, Georgia Electric
Membership Corporation,
according to a release, re
elected Neal Talton vice
chairman
of the2oo9
board of
directors.
Talton is
the owner/
operatorof
Ocmulgee
Dairy,
Inc. in
Bonaire.
He has been a fixture in the
local community, serving
on the board of directors of
Flint Energies for 15 years
(currently serving as assis
tant secretary/treasurer.),
American Dairy Association
- SUDIA State Board of
Directors, Houston County
Development Authority
(current member and
past chairman), Atlantic
Bank Community Board,
and Administrative Board
Chair of Bonaire United
Methodist Church.
He is currently serving as
vice-chairman of Georgia
EMC Board of Directors,
vice chairman of GEMC
Directors Association,
Warner Robins Chamber
of Commerce, Southeast
Dairy Herd Improvement
Association and Dairy
Farmers of America Co-op.
He and his wife, Ginger,
currently reside in
Bonaire.
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PERRY, GA
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