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Art on display
The January artist of
the month debuts at
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St. Marys.
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On the horizon
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city’s plans for the
upcoming new year.
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Johna Strickland Rush
johna@tribune-georgian.com
The death of a Camden County
woman is under investigation after
sheriffs deputies discovered her body
Tuesday, Dec. 25, in her Waverly
home.
Brenda King, 49, was pronounced
dead at the scene.
Her cause of death is still pending,
according to Dr. Edmund Donoghue
in the Georgia Bureau of Investiga
tion’s medical examiner office in Sa
vannah.
A few minutes before Christmas
day, deputies were dispatched to
King’s residence because she had not
been seen since Dec. 20 and several
people were worried that something
may have happened to her, according
to the incident report.
Deputies knocked on the door,
heard a dog barking inside the house
and proceeded to knock on the doors
and windows. All of the doors were
secured, according to the report.
After King’s daughter arrived, the
glass in a door was broken and
deputies entered the home, finding
the doors and windows were locked
and most of them were barricaded
with furniture.
Deputies found King, who was un
conscious and not breathing, in the
master bathroom.
Gator tales
Johna Strickland Rush | Tribune & Georgian
Cate Williams, interpretive ranger at Crooked River State Park, conducts a pres
entation Friday, Dec. 28, for a group of children at the park’s nature center. Alliga-
torTebow helps out.
Police eyeing
chaplain claims
Man arrived on accident scene
Emily Heglund
editorl@tds.net
Law enforcement officers
are investigating reports of a
man claiming to be a chap
lain on local emergency
scenes.
The man gave his card to
paramedics on scene at a ve
hicle accident a few days ago
but is not affiliated with any
local public service agency,
Camden County Fire Rescue
Chief Dennis Gailey said
Monday.
“No department has spon
sored them that we can de
termine,” he said.
The man is reported to be
driving a Ford Crown Victo
ria with Florida tags, a yellow
light bar and chaplain decals
on the sides, Gailey said.
The business card he gave
paramedics lists Florida
phone numbers and a local
post office box number.
Gailey said he noticed the
Crown Victoria about a week
before the accident at which
We hope this is someone
who is misguided but
with good intentions.
— Deputy William
Terrell
sheriff’s office
spokesman
the man appeared. He al
legedly tried to obtain pa
tient information from the
paramedics, but the emer
gency medical personnel did
not give out the information.
Gailey alerted the Camden
County Sheriff’s Office,
Kingsland Police Depart
ment and St. Marys Police
Department after para
medics reported the incident
to their supervisors.
Sheriff’s office spokesman
Deputy William Terrell said
several similar incidents have
been reported.
“We hope this is someone
who is misguided but with
good intentions,” he said.
County
facing
tests in
new year
Johna Strickland Rush
iohna@tribune-georgian.com
Camden County administrator
Steve Howard is heading into 2013
with the attitude that challenges are
opportunities — and county leaders
will certainly face a number of chal
lenges.
A tax digest that has been declin
ing.
The effects of a fiscal cliff that
could trickle down to the county.
Asking voters to decide about
Special Purpose Local Options
Sales Tax VII, and what happens if
residents don’t approve continuing
the 1-percent sales tax, which ex
pires in June.
New sheriff in town
Superior Court Judge An
thony Harrison (above, left)
swears in Sheriff Jim Proctor
on Thursday, Dec. 27, at the
county courthouse in Wood
bine. Today is Proctor’s first
official day as the head of
the Camden County Sher
iff’s Office.The ceremony in
cluded prayers and a speech
by Darryl Griffis (at left),
chief of the Kingsland Police
Department.
See TASKS, page 7
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