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Georgia Senate
appropriated t)K raises for state
workers, teachers
-Capitol Beat News Service
The Georgia Senate's budget-writing committee approved a $29.9
billion mid-year state budget Monday with raises for teachers and
state employees and a $1.6 billion refund for Georgia taxpayers.
The mid-year budget covering state spending through the end of
June represents a $2.7 billion increase over the fiscal 2022 budget
lawmakers adopted last spring.
Gov. Brian Kemp and legislative leaders can afford to be gener
ous this year as state tax revenues continue to bounce back from
huge declines suffered during the early stages of the coronavirus
pandemic two years ago.
"Georgia's economy is resilient," said Senate Appropriations
Committee Chairman Blake Tillery, R-Vidalia. "Georgia's econo
my has continued to grow."
The Senate panel put its stamp of approval on a $5,000 pay in
crease for state employees and a $2,000 raise for Georgia teachers
Gov. Brian Kemp recommended in January. The increase for teach
ers completes the $5,000 raise Kemp promised on the campaign
trail four years ago.
The election-year tax refund would be worth $250 for single state
income tax filers and $500 for joint filers.
The mid-year spending plan also includes $388.2 million
to fully fund the state's K-12 student funding formula, $93
million to accommodate an increase in student enrollment
last fall, $188 million to replace aging school buses and
$432 million to begin a "state prison transformation" that
includes buying a private prison and building a second one.
The Senate version of the mid-year budget would increase
the $5,000 raises Kemp is proposing to $9,000 for employ
ees of the departments of Corrections and Juvenile Justice,
which have been hit particularly hard by turnover.
Other Senate changes include $189.2 million to provide
a 20% state match to the federal funds Georgia is due to
receive from the infrastructure spending bill Congress
passed last November, $20 million for economic develop
ment grants to downtown areas of rural communities and $5
million in equipment and operating grants to college nursing
programs.
"It's no secret that our state needs nurses," Tillery said.
The full Senate is expected to adopt the mid-year budget
later this week.
Brier Creek to hold 3rd
annual banquet
The Brier Creek Revolutionary War Battlefield Associa
tion, Inc will hold its 3rd Annual Banquet at the First
United Methodist Church Social Flail in Sylvania on
Friday night, March 4, 2022, at 6:30 p.m. With President
Stephen Hammond presiding, we will have an outstand
ing meal and a program presented by Jason West from
Gwinnett County, GA. His program will be a portrayal of
Button Gwinnett, an American Founding Father who, as
a representative of Georgia to the Continental Congress,
was one of the three signatories from Georgia on the
United States Declaration of Independence. If you would
like to attend our 3rd annual banquet Friday night, March
4th, please call Sherry Christopher at 229-315-0960 or
478-299-8135 to be added to the banquet list. Pictured
at last year’s banquet is the color guard including Steve
Burke, Dess Smith III, Wilder Smith, Jr. and President
Stephen Hammond, (photo contributed)
The Sylvania Times
Friday, Mar. 4: The 243rd Anniversary of the
Battle of Brier Creek. Programs start at 9 a.m.
Tuesday, Mar. 15: The Sylvania City Council
Meeting meets at the Cail Building at 6 p.m. The
public is invited to attend.
Tuesday, Feb. 15: The Screven County Commis
sion meeting will be held at 6 p.m. in the county
offices. The public is invited to attend.
Monday, Mar. 15: The Screven BOE meeting
will be held at 5 p.m.at the BOE building.
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Pippin Court was at 216 North Main Street
April 5-7: The 71st annual Screven County Live
stock Festival will be held. More details to come.
Mandy B. Howard, Bob Smith, & Renee Smith (photo by Sarah Saxon)
Good news for
local historians
-Joe Brady
Sylvania Times Editor
Some good news for local historians has come in
the form of digitized deed records from the Screven
County Clerk of Court office. “Koffie Technologies
started in January, and it took about three weeks to
digitize the plats from 1793 to 2003. They will be
indexed and available in the next 6-9 months on the
GSCCCA website.” Mandy Howard, Superior Court
Clerk explains.
The services of Koffie were paid for by the GCSS
office at no expense to the Screven County taxpayer.
“Our oldest plat is from 1793 which is the year
Screven County was founded,” Mandy says. “Our
deed records are indexed from 1977.” To copy the plat
is $.50 per page and is reinvested into the Historical
Deed Project
“We will be a certified county within 3 years,”
Mandy explains. To be certified, a county must have
digitized and indexed records for 50 years. “I want
to thank my predecessor, Janice Reddick. She got
Screven County involved in this project during her
tenure. There is a need to protect these old records,
this way, they are forever protected.” Mandy has been
the Clerk of Court since 2021.
“My office’s primary goal is to be more accessible to
the public. By completing this project, we are one step
closer.”
FOR SALE
The Town of Hiltonia is
accepting bids for the sale of a
2010 SCAG Tiger Cat zero turn
48” mower. $700.00 reserve.
Needs repairs. Sold as is Sealed
bids should be placed at:
Hiltonia Town Hall located at
2386 Waynesboro Hwy
Hiltonia. GA 30467.
All bids must be in by 12:00
noon on
Friday, March 11, 2022
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William Franklin “Bill” Sowell, a Private in the 54th Georgia Infantry
Regiment during the War Between the States, passed away yesterday. He
was preceded in death by his wife, Mary Elizabeth “Betty Pryor who died
a year ago. He was buried next to his wife at Harmony Methodist Church
Cemetery.
Sidney Johnson Robbins, son of Dicy Jane Enneis and Isaac Dean
“Babe” Robbins, passed away last Friday. He is survived by his wife,
Annielove Bochwell Robbins and children, Annie, Bernice, and Sidney, Jr.
Burial was at Sylvania City Cemetery.
Miss Pearl F. Kimbrell and Mr. George Washington Thompson, both
of the Hurst Community, are to be wed on 9 Mar 1922. The bride is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Green B. Kimbrell. The groom is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Homer Mulkey Thompson.
Private Grady A. Glisson, USMC, son of Mrs. Annie Bevill of Oliver,
is presently assigned to Camp Catlin, Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii.
He is among the members of the military fire department and serves as
hoseman.
Social Security Wage Records list 75 million names, with many of these
names being identical. The Smiths of the nation lead all the rest among
the Social Security records, with 1.145 million, with the Johnson being
second with 904, 752.
Baseball Season to Open May 6 With Sylvania Playing Millen; First
Home Game Set for May 7.
Black Community Gives Support to Heart Drive. Billie McGee Director
for funds of the Black Community, notes that it is significant at this time
that God has granted us an opportunity to help in the struggle to alleviate
massive deaths due to heart disease.
Now completing his fifteenth year as County Agent in Screven County,
James W. “Bill” Brannen, will head up Plans for the 57th National County
Agents Association Convention, which will be held in Atlanta in Nov
1982.
Much before the year 1900, a group of families feeling the need of a
place of worship came together and through faith in God and themselves
built the original Wesley Church. This building was a one-room log
structure and not on the present site, but a few miles north, just off the
Buttermilk Road and near the McBride settlement. The following pioneer
families were in attendance there: Fewis Fewis family, Dr. A. D. Fewis
family, the West family, including the Reverend Ben West, the Hanns,
Fariscys, Frawleys, Browns, Herringtons, Crews, Connors, and Waters.
This week in Ii^7
Fand proposals stir debate. Proposed new land developments regulations
for Screven County continue to generate discussion locally. Central to the
discussion is whether or not the county should require a minimum lot size
for new dwellings. Part of the problem is that there is a public perception
that the final regulations will limit all new Screven homebuilders to build
onminimum five-acre lots.
Eric Bargeron, Wes Withrow, Kevin Thompson, and David Reed placed
among the top 10 percent in the nation recently on the American Associa
tion of Teachers of German examination. These are special achievement
test given to upper-level high school German students.
The following eleven Screven County students were tapped for National
Honor Society: Ebony Fulcher, Feigh Fulghum, Kim Thompson, Wes
Withrow, Tasha Brooks, Amanda Brown, Nathan Bums, Jared Elliott,
Jeremiah Flanders, Mark Wells, and Fauren Zeagler.
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