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o o 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 Label Below 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