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OCTOBER 3, 2010
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VOLUME 16 NUMBER 9
NEWS BRIEFS
Early voting now
Early voting for the November 2,
2010, General Election is going on
now at the Carroll County
Elections & Registration Office,
lower level lobby, 423 College
Street, Carrollton. Early voting
will close on Friday, October 29,
2010 at 5:00 pm. Sample ballots at
www.carrollgaelections.com
Upcoming events:
• EMC Annual Meeting, Oct.
7th: page 43 for more information
• MECCAFest, Oct. 9th-10th:
see page 6 for more information
• Ashbrook Village Grand
Opening, Oct. 9th: see page 17
for more information
• 34th Annual Kiwanis/Sheriff
Youth Football Bowl, Oct. 23rd,
30th, Nov. 6th: see page 5 for
more information
• “Halloween Heyday”, John
Tanner Park, Oct. 30th: see page
33 for more information
• 10th Annual Halloween
Carnival & Shriners’ Antique
Car Show, McIntosh Reserve
Park, Oct. 30th: see page 50 for
more information
• “Ruby Green Yard Sale”, to
raise funds for mammograms,
Nov. 6th: see page 10 for more
information
INSIDE:
Crossword page 53
Sudoku page 52
News Recap page 4
Restaurant Inspections page 52
Marriages page 52
STAR of Month page 34
Opinion pages 39, 40, 41
Obituary listing page 31
Feature “State of Carroll” 8
Meth Summit to be held Oct. 212 school board
seats up for grabs
by Sam Gentry
The Carroll County Meth
Coalition’s annual drug awareness
summit will be held on Oct. 21
from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Tabernacle
Baptist Church in Carrollton. The
event is free and the community is
invited to attend.
In its fifth year, the theme of the
summit is “Drugs and the Ripple
Effect.” Investigator Reagan
Clayton of the Carroll County
Sheriff's Office - also the chairman
of the coalition - said the event
“offers much needed and valuable
information regarding the effects of
drugs and drug activity in our com
munity, state and country.” The
focus is on education, prevention,
treatment and enforcement.
Clayton said the seminars are
See METH SUMMIT page 2
by Sam Gentry
Election Day is only a month
away, and two seats on the Carroll
County Board of Education are up
for grabs, the District 2 seat held
by incumbent Dorothy Burton-
Callaway and the District 7 seat
being vacated by John Stephens.
See SCHOOL BOARD page 46
Commission
District 4 seat:
2 competitors
by Sam Gentry
Incumbent District 4
Commissioner John Wilson is fac
ing “write-in tea party Republican
candidate” Jim Watters in the
upcoming election, and both candi
dates say they want to make sure
See DISTRICT 4 page 45
Murder suspects
to be arraigned
by Chuck Wanager
Farrah “Casper” Strength, one of two
Carrollton residents charged with two
counts each of murder in the slaying of a
University of West Georgia student over
the summer, is to be arraigned on October
15 at 8 a.m. at the Carroll County jail. She
will plea not guilty, according to her law-
See SUSPECTS page 2
Community &
Southern grows
with acquisititions
by Carole Scott
Through purchase and assumption
agreements with the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
Carrollton’s Community & Southern Bank
has acquired the banking operations,
See COMMUNITY & SOUTHERN page 46
State school superintendent
candidates squared off at UWG
by Carole Scott
At the September 14, 2010 State
Superintendent Candidates’ Forum held at
the Townsend Center on the campus of the
University of West Georgia (UWG), the
candidates, John D. Barge (Republican),
Joe Martin (Democrat), and Kisa Griffiths
Willis (Libertarian), were at least in general
agreement in regard to several of the issues
they were questioned about by a panel and
the audience, but they disagreed about a
few issues, and each made some sugges
tions or complaints unique to them.
See STATE JOB page 46
Environmental health series
Need septic work? Take this class
and a grant may help pay for it
Students of North Point Christian Academy
participated in Neighbor2Neighbor community
enhancement event on Friday, September 24,
2010. The event began at Carroll County
Veterans Memorial Park where they met to
pray and clean the park, (www.starnewsga.com
for more on this story) Photo by Sam Gentry
by Sam Gentry
The Carroll County Environmental
Health section of the Health Department is
working with Rolling Hills RC&D Council
to ensure water quality and proper septic
tank maintenance by offering assistance to
county residents.
“It was brought to our attention in 2007
that we had an issue with fecal coliform of
elevated levels in the Tallapoosa and the
stream segments around here,” said Susan
Pullen, program manager for the watershed
management program at Rolling Hills.
These findings were made by the
Environmental Protection Agency. (Fecal
See HEALTH page 46
Proven to be the Conservative Vote
Actively Involved in Cutting Wasteful Spending
Let’s Keep Carroll County a Great Place to
Live and Work - for our Future Generations!
Nov. 7
EARLY
VOTING
NOW!
