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Winder Weekend
A PUBLICATION OF
The Barrow Journal & The Barrow County News — Merged August 2016
Newspapers
merge in
Barrow
County
The Barrow County News,
Winder, has been acquired
by Main street Newspapers,
Inc., of Jefferson and has
been merged with the Bar-
row Journal.
Mainstreet Newspapers,
Jefferson, is owned by Mike
and Scott Buffington, sec
ond-generation publishers
who publish six weekly
newspapers in Northeast
Georgia.
The merged newspapers
will be delivered to sub
scribers via mail on a week
ly basis and will be available
in stores and news racks
around Barrow County.
The name of the newly
merged newspaper has not
yet been determined.
Customers can continue
to use the current Barrow
County News phone num
bers, email and P.O. Box
information in the coming
weeks during the transition
to a merged operation.
The merged newspaper
will operate from the cur
rent Journal office at 77
East May Street, Winder.
Office hours will be 8:30
a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays
through Fridays.
The current office of the
Barrow County News at
West Athens Street will be
closed.
Barrow County News
reporters, Scott Thompson
and Charles Phelps, have
taken positions with Main-
Street Newspapers.
POSTMASTER: Send address chang
es to: The Barrow Journal, 77 East
May Street, Winder, Georgia 30680
Mainstreet Newspapers, Inc.
Periodicals postage paid at Winder,
Georgia 30680 (USPS 025-132)
Email: news@barrowjournal.com
Phone: 770-867-NEWS (6397)
Fax: 678-425-1435
SUBSCRIPTIONS:
$25.00/yr.
Mailing
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School bells ring again
A NEW SCHOOL YEAR BEGINS
Students change classes on the first day of school at Winder-Barrow High School (above) while buses prepare to take
students home from the first day of classes at the new Russell Middle School (below). See more back to school pictures
on pages 3-4. Photos by Jessica Brown
