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North Georgia’s Got Talent set for Oct. 13 LOCAL, 3A Tigers break records in destroying East Hall SPORTS, IB DawsonCountyNews WEDNESDAY I OCTOBER 3, 2018 DaWSOflNeWS ^com DAWSONVULE, GEORGIA $1.00 Kemp's first stop is Dawson County Gubernatorial candidate makes pitch to local voters By Allie Dean adean@dawsonnews.com Brian Kemp, Republican candi date for governor and Georgia Secretary of State, was greeted by a hundred eager faces when he stepped off the bus Monday morn ing in Dawson County for the first stop on a weeklong campaign tour. Local elected officials, law enforcement and emergency servic es personnel as well as dozens of Dawson residents gathered Oct. 1 at John Megel Chevrolet on Ga. 400 to hear from Kemp, who faces Democrat Stacey Abrams and LibertarianTed Metz on Nov. 6. The “Putting Georgians First” bus tour will hit 27 counties this week. Kemp, who lives in Athens, touched on a few key points in a brief address to the crowd, includ ing taxes, education and law enforcement. He said if elected, he plans to support further tax cuts like the billion-dollar tax cut that the state legislature passed earlier this year. “I’m planning as governor to sign another tax cut to continuate that this coming year,” Kemp said. State lawmakers cut the state income tax rate in response to the federal tax cut bill signed into law by President Donald Trump in 2017. Changes at the national level would have created a huge windfall for Georgia state government — practically creating a tax increase at the state level. Republican lawmakers in Atlanta acted to head off the windfall by passing the state’s first income tax cut in decades, though rates for most Georgians and the revenue for state government will be close to the same as they were before the See Kemp 17A Allie Dean Dawson County News Brian Kemp poses with the Sizemore family in Dawson County Oct. 1 on the first stop of his Putting Georgians First bus tour. Photos by Allie Dean Dawson County News A woman takes in a black, white and red quilt made by Heart in Hand Quilt Guild President Sylvia LaFalce. Ousted mayor appeals to Ga. Supreme Court By Allie Dean adean@dawsonnews.com A lengthy case between the City of Dawsonville and former Mayor James Grogan will con tinue next week as both sides head to the Georgia Supreme Court Oct. 10 to present oral arguments. Grogan, 76, was removed from office in May of 2017 by the city council and has been fighting the decision ever since, gaining no trac tion in the Dawson County Superior Court where his appeal was denied last October. To add salt to the wound, Grogan was court ordered in March to pay $25,060.88 back to the city for the salary and benefits he received during the five months he was appealing his termination by the city council. See Mayor 16A Grogan Quilt Guild holds annual show Quilts by members of the Heart in Hand Quilt Guild will be on display at the Bowen Center for the Arts through Oct. 25. By Allie Dean adean@dawsonnews.com The most visited show each year at the Bowen Center for the Arts in Dawsonville isn’t what you’d expect. Visitors from all over the southeast will travel to the rock building by the busload to see what the Bowen has in store for the month of October. The draw? Quilts, and lots of them. Ginny Greenwood, executive director of the Bowen, said that around 500 people visit the show each year and that many or more are expected this year. “We get at least 10 to 20 visitors a day, and three big groups have already scheduled vis its,” she said. Members of the Dawsonville Heart in Hand Quilt Guild have been working since last November on new quilts and 75 of the detailed works of art from 27 of the guild’s members are now on display for all to see through Oct. 25. Jackie Somerville is chair of the quilt show this year, and said work on the show starts six months in advance with publicity and reaching out to various maga zines, quilt guilds and the Georgia Quilt Council. The only criteria for See Quilts 12A BOC presents ’19 budget plan By Allie Dean adean@dawsonnews.com More new personnel than the county has seen in a long time could be approved by the Dawson County Board of Commissioners when they set the 2019 budget later this year, according to a presentation by Chairman Billy Thurmond last week. Thurmond presented his recommended 2019 budget to the rest of the board on Sept. 27, and recommended the board approve 23 of the 42 positions that department heads requested during budget hearings in August. An additional position has already been granted in the form of an administrative assistant for the public defender’s office. See Budget 16A 90994 04002 Inside Volume 4, Number 2 © 2018, Dawson County News Dawsonville, Georgia Church Events Classifieds Dear Abby Deaths Legals Opinion Sports 3B 8B 7B 2A 8B 9A 1B We're all grown up. 4A Dawson County News up for GSBA Beacon Award 5A Tax office receives awards for Relay for Life fundraising m NORTHS1DE HOSPITAL FORSYTH WOMEN’S CENTER 16 elebrating years of delivering precious gifts
