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MAY 2018 • VOLUME 24 NUMBER 5 CARROLL COUNTY, GEORGIA'S ONLY LOCALLY OWNED LOCALLY OPERATED NEWSPAPER
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Highway 78/ Bankhead
Highway to be renamed
“Veterans Memorial Highway"
Letters and notices have been
distributed to inform residents
and commercial business owners
in City of Villa Rica, Douglas
County, City of Douglasville, and
the City of Austell that these four
municipalities have agreed to
reassign street numbers as well
as rename Highway 78/
Bankhead Highway to “Veterans
Memorial Highway” throughout
Douglas County.
For more information, Douglas
County Communications and
Community Relations Director
Rick Martin at 770-920-7303 or
rickmartin@co.douglas.us
“WWI Centennial Event”
Saturday, May 26th 10:30
a.m. at the Carroll County
Veterans Memorial Park
• Guest speaker will be David
Shuey (History Teller
Productions, Newville, PA)
appearing as “General
Pershing”.
• Twenty-two young soldiers from
Carroll County
who died in service during
WW! will be remembered
• A new MIA feature in the
park will be dedicated
• A new WWI Records
program will be announced
•Rifles - “Taps”
•□Laying of the wreath
•□The Flag Pledge
•□NationalAnthem will be sung
• The Carroll County Symphony
wind ensemble will play period
tunes beginning at 10:30 am.m.
with program at 11:00 a.m.
Part 2
Who’s Junior
Carroll? 2018
begins Page 9
Restaurant inspections
Who passed? Who failed?
Where are you eating this week?
Page 40
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Andy Camp, formerly of Carroll Tomorrow,
presents to Villa Rica City Council and mayor
on entering into a three year consulting plan
with his research/marketing company
Carroll County Commission race
- District 2 -
Clint Chance & Matthew Momtahan
by Prissi Sullivan
Two candidates are competing
for the Carroll
County Board of
Education
District 7 seat,
which is being
vacated by Jon
Anderson, who
chose not to seek
Conerly re-election.
Bryant Turner has lived in the
district for 20 years and has
served as Minister of Music and
Church Administrator at
Roopville Road Baptist Church
for 23 years. He
I has a bachelor's
P #§111 Degree in Music
1 J Education and
I did his student
Turner Following that he
was Band Director at Central
Middle School, Chorus Director
See BOE DISTRICT 7 page 4
Carroll County Board of Education
- District 5 -
Bill Kecskes & Donald Nixon
The two candidates for District 2 Commission
The League of Women Voters Carrollton-Carroll County held
a forum for the Carroll County Commission District 2 race.
Both candidates are shown above at the event: Clint Chance,
left, and Matthew Momtahan, right. Photo by Sue Horn Chappell
County commission unanimously
votes to approve SPLOST funds
for Integrated Criminal Justice
Case Management System
$525,000 request for PeachCourt System
falls under SPLOST “Capital Outlay” category
by Sue Horn Chappell
The Carroll County Board of
Commissioners unanimously
approved the (continued) funding
of the Integrated Criminal Justice
Case Management System - a
novel civil and criminal e-filing
system that is currently being
developed by a Canoll County
by Prissi Sullivan
Bill Kecskes,
S former member of
|p # Carroll County
Board of
Education, .and
Kecskes Board of
Education, are vying for Carroll
County Board of Education for
District 5. Kecskes served on the
board from 2003-2007, while
Nixon has served from 2007 until
the present. Star News also
reached out to Nixon to have his
views and opinions covered in this
article, but received no response
from the (incumbent) candidate.
Keckses is a retired classroom
teacher with an active Georgia
Educator Certificate #297439, cer
tifying him in Educational
Leadership, Behavioral Science,
Economics, Geography, History,
Middle Grades Language Arts,
See BOE DISTRICT 5 page 32
company, PeachCourt /
GreenCourt. The board approved
$525,000 from 2013 SPLOST
funds under the Capital Outlay
category, reinvesting in the pilot
program the Carroll County
Court System has been using for
See COMMISSION
APPROVES page 32
County commission unanimously
votes down Conditional Use Permit
for large conference/event center
Conditional Use Permit request from owner/applicant
did not include gun range; did not require rezoning
by Sue Horn Chappell
The Carroll County Board of
Commissioners unanimously
voted down business owner John
Paulk’s “Conditional Use Permit”
for his property on Martin
Cemetery Road, Carrollton, at the
board’s regular meeting Tuesday,
May 1, 2018. The Carroll County
Planning & Zoning Board had
recommended approval at their
March 27,2018 meeting.
See COMMISSION
DENIES page 32
Mayor Reese: city is under obligation to Carroll Tomorrow
for the next several years at $50,000 per year
by Prissi Sullivan
Andy Camp, formerly of Carroll Tomorrow, presented a retail
research, marketing and recruitment overview of NextSite to the Villa
Rica City Council at their work session on March 29, 2018. The
company has a state-wide contract with Georgia Power and can offer
innovative price structuring to municipalities to bring new retail, new
restaurants, and new jobs to an area. NextSite is proposing a 3-year
customized consulting plan for $15,500 per year. Camp projects a
185% return on the investment.
Mayor Jeff Reese pointed out that the city is under obligation to
Carroll Tomorrow for $50,000 per year for the next several years. “I
would be hard-pressed to obligate more taxpayer dollars for the same
service,” he stated.
See SAME SERVICE page 39
by Prissi Sullivan
On Tuesday, April 24, 2018,the
League of Women Voters hosted a
forum at the Holt-Bishop Justice
Center in Villa Rica for the candi
dates vying for the District 2
County Commission Seat: Clint
Chance and Matthew Momtahan.
Dr. Bruce Lyon moderated and
presented questions that had been
submitted from various sources
and from the audience.
Momtahan was first (coin toss)
See COMMISSION page 6
Carroll County Board of Education
- District 7 -
Michelle Conerly & Bryant Turner
