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32 Pages 3 Sections, Plus Preprints A Publication of MainStreet Newspapers, Inc. Winder, Barrow County Georgia 50« Copy Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Barrow
Briefs
Tour of
homes set
The Barrow Preservation
Society will have a Spring Tour
of Historic Homes in Old Town
Winder on Saturday, April 21
from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The
tour will include 11 historic
properties and will showcase
renovation and preservation
projects within these homes and
businesses. Tickets are $5 and
can be purchased at Hill’s Ace
Hardware, Ann’s Flower Shop
or Salon 52 West, or at the tour
headquarters, 52 West Candler
St., on the day of the tour. For
more information, email pre-
servebarrow@windstream.net.
Spring
cleanup event
The annual Spring Clean-Up
day is coming up in Bethlehem.
The Town of Bethlehem is
celebrating Earth Day on April
25, with a Spring Clean-Up
Day.
“Bring your junk, no tires,
paint, items with Freon or con
struction waste, curbside on
April 24 and it will be picked
up on April 25,” leaders state.
If you have any questions,
call 770-867-0702 from 12-6
p.m., Monday through Friday.
WDBA golf
tournament
The Winder Downtown Busi
ness Association will host its
first annual golf tournament
Wednesday, May, 9, with a
shotgun start beginning at 1
p.m., at The Chimneys, 338
Monroe Hwy., Winder. The fee
is $100 per player and $400 per
foursome. Team hole sponsor
ships are available for $500,
vendor tent sponsorships are
available for $200 and a hole
sponsorship is available for
$150. Make checks payable to
the Winder Downtown Busi
ness Association or pay at pay-
pal.me/WDBA.
For more information, call
404-213-8579 or email winder-
downtownba@gmail.com.
Index:
Public Safety
7-9A
Opinion
4-6 A
Lifestyle columns
2-3C
Church News
10A
Classifieds
4-5C
Legals
6-9C
Obituaries
11A
Sports
1-6B
Mailing
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Teen charged with murdering girlfriend
A 16-year-old Barrow County male has
been charged with murdering his girlfriend
at a home in Winder last week.
Deputies from the Barrow County Sher
iff’s Office responded just after 1:30 p.m.
Thursday to a trailer park residence at 454
East Midland Ave, and found a 16-year-old
female dead in one of the bedrooms from
what is believed to be a stab wound, accord
ing to sheriff’s office officials.
Deputies received information from a
family friend who had come to the home
that the suspect, who had stayed with the
body, told him what happened and left on
foot shortly before deputies’ arrival.
A little less than an hour later, the suspect
was apprehended and is being held at a
regional youth detention center.
Sheriff Jud Smith said Tuesday morning
results from the crime lab to determine
the cause of death had not come back, and
investigators were still trying to determine
whether the death occurred the night before
the body was found or before then.
“We are also still trying to piece together
a motive,” Smith said. “We have a lot of evi
dence to go through involving the incident.”
The Sheriff’s Office has not released the
names of the suspect or victim because of
their status as juveniles, though the suspect
will be tried as an adult.
No other information was available as of
press time.
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The Barrow News-Journal has relocated its office to 122 West Athens St., Suite A, in Winder,
next to Sanders Furniture. The newspaper opened there Monday, moving from its previous
location at 77 East May St. We look forward to serving our readers in our new location
Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Wednesdays and Fridays
from 9 a.m. to noon. Our phone number remains the same at 770-867-NEWS (6397). Send
address changes to P.O. Box 1506, Winder, GA 30680. Photos by Scott Thompson
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Statham
suspends
business
license after
drug arrest
By Ron Bridg'eman
News-Journal Reporter
The Statham City Coun
cil suspended the business
license of Kenny’s Food
Mart, the BP gas station
and convenience store,
Tuesday night after city
police arrested a clerk for
selling drugs at the store.
The council voted 4-1
to suspend the business
license of Kenny Nurani,
owner of the store. The
store is at 1937 Atlanta
Hwy.
Council members reject
ed pleas for leniency from
the store manager, Amanda
Cronic, and Nurani.
City police arrested
Mohammed Chinwala, who
was a clerk at the business.
He is charged with pos
session of a controlled
substance, possession with
intent to distribute a con
trolled substance and sales
of a controlled substance.
Police chief Allan John
ston said an undercover
agent bought drugs from
the clerk at the counter of
the store. He said he then
went in the store and arrest
ed the man. Barrow County
sheriff’s deputies also par
ticipated in the arrest.
Police also got a search
warrant for the room Chin
wala lived in next door to
the store.
In the room of the house.
Johnston said marijuana
and suspected heroin and “a
pretty significant amount”
of money were confiscated.
Johnston closed the store
for 24 hours after the arrest.
See Statham on Page 2A
Pay increases planned for BCSO, detention center employees
By Scott Thompson
News-Journal Editor
Barrow County Sheriff’s Office
and Detention Center employees
would get around a 3.4-percent
pay increase next fiscal year
under a preliminary recommend
ed county budget, but not the full
amount Sheriff Jud Smith was
requesting.
The county board of commis
sioners held the first of a series of
budget workshops on April 10 as
the county works on crafting, and
adopting by June, a budget for
FY2019 which begins July 1.
County manager Mike Ren-
shaw presented the board with a
report on a pay classification and
salary study for the sheriffs office
conducted by Condrey and Asso
ciates, Inc. The firm compared pay
schedules for the BCSO against
20 other law enforcement agen
cies in surrounding counties and
municipalities and then proposed
a couple of plans to make the
sheriff’s office more competitive
with the comparable agencies.
The plan recommended by
Renshaw would increase the
employees’ salaries by 3.4 percent
and have an estimated $315,482
impact on the proposed budget,
and it would place the depart
ment’s pay scale slightly above
the mean of the comparable labor
market, which “should prove to be
effective in attracting and retain
ing a quality workforce,” the firm
said in the report.
The firm also recommended
annual salary adjustments across
the board, when market condi
tions dictate, in addition to any
performance-based increases.
However, Renshaw did not rec
ommend a one-time equity adjust
ment the firm suggested to coun
teract pay compression (position
salaries being grouped closely
together regardless of length or
quality of service). That adjust
ment would have an estimated
$718,049 impact on the proposed
budget. Smith had requested a
full implementation of the plan.
but Renshaw said that would
be difficult to accomplish and
stay within the budget without
any kind of millage increase.
He noted that ahead of FY2017,
the board approved across-the-
board salary increases for gen
eral county government employ
ees that were recommended by
See Budget on Page 2A
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