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CARROLL COUNTY, t StarNews CARROLL COUNTY, GEORGIA'S ONLY LOCALLY OWNED / LOCALLY OPERATED NEWSPAPER Christmas Messages ort Stories Christmases Past, t, and Future see beginning page 7 NEWS REPORTING / NEWS RECAP / NEWS ANALYSIS StarNews monthly traditional print publication /StarNews Online daily local news 1 DECEMBER 11, 2022 • VOLUME 28 NUMBER 12 www.starnewsgaonline.com County government approves using $10M tax surplus to make more surplus through two private bank institutions of their choice that, most likely, will increase banks’ profits American Commerce Bank and Southern States each to receive $5M cash County’s has 60% of budget in cash reserve in the amount of $39.6M Southwire announces new commercial investment For purpose of achieving goal of carbon zero efforts / more sustainable buildings from press release Southwire has announce a new commercial investment with Sinclair Digital Services, Inc. , based in Fort Worth, Texas. It is a designer, equip ment reseller and system integrator of advanced connected buildings, with an emphasis on Direct Current (DC) microgrids. Sinclair has designed and implemented several high-profile DC build ings around the nation, including the Sinclair story by Sue Horn Evans At its Tuesday, December 6, 2022, regular meeting, the Carroll County Board of Commissioners and Chairman voted to approve moving $10 million dol lars of tax collections into two banks that “need deposits” “so they can loan money to businesses in Carroll County”. In return, the county government will collect a profit from the interest of the two $5 million Certificates of Deposit See TAX $$ SURPLUS page 6 RUNOFF ELECTION RESULTS Tuesday, December 6, 2022 GA. UNITED STATES SENATOR STATEWIDE RESULTS: Raphael Warnock Incumbent (D) 51.28% Herschel Junior Walker (R) 48.72% TOTAL VOTES: 3,518,244 CARROLL COUNTY RESULTS: Herschel Junior Walker (R) 69.69% Raphael Warnock Incumbent (D) 30.31% TOTAL VOTES: 39,541 Total votes Nov. 8th General Election: Statewide: 3,854,559 Carroll County: 42,420 Senator Warnock to return to Washington Incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock easily beats out Republican challenger Herschel Walker by 90,134 votes story by Sue Horn Evans Although there were 336,315 less Georgia voters participating in the December 6th U.S Senate Runoff Election race than did for the original three-party November 8th Senate con test, Incumbent Raphael Warnock (D) easily overcame runoff challenger Herschel Walker (R) by 90,134 votes. Polls closed on Tuesday, Dec. 6th at 7:00 p.m., with tallies steadily being shared the next several hours though various media outlets with See WARNOCK WINS page 31 KidsPeace in Bowdon hires new executive director from press release KidsPeace has named Dr. Joseph Cox to the position of Executive Director of KidsPeace Georgia, its behavioral health residential treat ment program based in Bowdon. Cox replaces longtime director Louis Shagawat, who retired earlier this year. Cox began work December 5th. Since 2020, Cox was Director of Operations at the Community Foundation of West Georgia See NEW DIRECTOR page 31 See CARBON ZERO EFFORT page 18 Non-politically aligned Guardians of Liberty host year end session with State Senator Mike Dugan (R) and State Representative J Collins (R) Non-politically aligned Guardians of Liberty hosted their year end with State Senator Mike Dugan (R) and State Representative Jay Collins (R), Tuesday, Nov. 29,2022, Uncorked on Main, Villa Rica. These informal sessions are open to the public with the goal of educating the public on how government works. Left to right: Carrollton City Council Jim Watters, State Senator Mike Dugan, Villa Rica City Council member Leslie McPherson, Carrollton City Council Jacqulene Bridges, State Representative Jay Collins, and Carroll County Commissioner Clint Chance. (Check McPherson \ FB page for next meeting date). Photo by Sue Horn Evans This issue is also posted on over 100 Facebook community pages, Twitter, Linkedln, & starnewsgaonline.com Call 770-722-7227 suehorn.starnews @gmail.com waynereynolds.starnews @gmail.com