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JUNE 2018 • VOLUME 24 NUMBER 6 CARROLL COUNTY, GEORGIA'S ONLY
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Southwire Company’s annual
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Who will find the Copper Egg and
win a $500 shopping spree?!
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The AMP 2018
SUMMER MOVIE
8 CONCERT SERIES
City of Carrollton summer
concerts at The AMP
Page 2
“Kim Jong Un:
the rat is in the corner”
Dan Pak - columnist
Page 21
Modern administration of the
death penalty is untenable
Jason Swindle - columnist
Page 22
REEL AT THE MILL
MOVIE NIGHTS
W The MILL Amphitheater
106 Temple Street, Villa Rica
Friday, June 8,2018
As soon as it gets dark!
Page 6
Local blood drive
Friday, June 22nd
Shot Spot 970 Hays Mill Road,
Carrollton, event room
Page 13
Restaurant inspections
Who passed? Who failed?
Where are you eating this week?
Marriage Licenses
Pistol Permits
Births • Cattle Sales
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Local print
media enters
new era
Single County Transportation Special
Local Option Sales Tax to be on the
November ballot for voter approval
One penny tax would be collected locally and kept (spent) locally
Primary Election results.
Runoff Election is July 24
Carroll County’s Jim Beck is the Republican nominee
for State Insurance Commissioner
Clint Chance will become District 4 county commissioner
Voters say yes to Sunday alcohol sales in county’s unincorporated areas
by Prissi Sullivan
A referendum for a transporta
tion special local option sales tax
(T-SPLOST) will be on the
November ballot. Sales tax would
increase 1% or one cent on every
dollar spent. Leamon Stephens,
Carroll County’s Financial
Director, predicts that $82.5 mil
lion over the next 5 years will be
generated. The funds will be used
See T-SPLOST page 30
by Sam Gentry
The Election Summary Report
for the May 22 Georgia Primary
and Nonpartisan General Election
reveals several clear winners as
well as some forced runoffs.
Twenty-eight precincts were open
for the Carroll County portion of
the race. Out of the 69,680 regis
tered voters eligible to cast a bal
lot in the election, 13,310 (19.1
percent) participated.
Voters said yes to Sunday alco
hol sales in Carroll County, with
6,637 (50.40 percent) voting in
favor, and 6,532 (49.60 percent)
voting in opposition.
See RESULTS page 30
Commission
adopts 2018-
2019 budget
$50.26M budget reflects
$981,800 increase over
current budget
by Sam Gentry
The Carroll County Board of
Commissioners gathered for their
regular meeting on June 5,2018 at
the Commission Chambers at the
historic Carroll County court
house. Commission Chairman
Marty Smith, District 1
See COUNTY BUDGET page 30
Run-off Election is Tuesday, July 24, 2018.
Federal and state primary run-off elections will be Tues, July 24,
2018. Voter registration deadline for federal primary run-off
elections is June 25, 2018. Under state law, you are eligible to
vote in a primary run-off election even if you did not vote in the
primary election. If you did vote in the primary election and
selected a Democratic or Republican ballot, you must vote the
same party’s ballot in the primary run-off election. If you voted a
non-partisan ballot in the primary election, you can choose either
party’s ballot in the primary run-off election.
Jan Banning, The Netherlands, is shown above center taking photos in a Ugandan prison for
his latest project which chronicles life in prison in several countries, including the United States.
While working on the series in a Georgia’s Pulaski Prison, Banning discovered what he believes
to be a great injustice which took place in Carroll County twenty-five years ago: an innocent
woman convicted in the death of her young daughter. Banning is now on a mission to help free
her. Photo printed with permission
Renewed interest in 1992 Carroll County murder
comes from internationally known photojournalist
While working on photo project on prisons worldwide, Jan Banning of The Netherlands
stumbles onto the 2008 Carroll Star News story of the murder of toddler Amber Bennett
by Sam Gentry
Jan Banning is seemingly always on a mission. His
life-spanning career as an award-winning
photographer has taken him around the world and
brought him success most could only dream of.
Recently, by nothing more than chance, while
working on a new collection Banning discovered
what he believes to be a great injustice which took
place in Carroll County, Georgia over two decades
ago, and he has now taken on the task of doing
whatever he can to right the wrong.
Bom in Almelo (Netherlands) on May 4th, 1954,
from Dutch East Indies (modem-day Indonesia)
parents, Banning is an independent
artist/photographer based in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
See JAN BANNING / CHRISTINA BOYER page 28
President Trump’s
anticipated steep tariffs on
newsprint to bring changes
in printed news products
by Prissi Sullivan
In the wake of the Great
Recession of 2008-2009, vast
changes have occurred in the
newspaper industry. That eco
nomic tsunami decimated adver
tising budgets for businesses of
all sizes across the nation causing
massive layoffs in the industry
and shutting down many newspa
per presses. Any cuts that could
be made without closing the
doors for good were done. Those
newspapers that survived were
leaner, sparing no costs while
waiting out recovery in the econ
omy. And there has been some
See NEWSPAPERS page 2S
