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GDOT presents Perimeter Road plans
New construction project would allow commuters travelling on SR 53 to bypass downtown
By Joshua Demarest
jdemarest@dawsonnews.com
Last week, representatives of
the Georgia Department of
Transportation hosted a Public
Information Open House at
Dawson County High School to
lay out their preliminary plans
for the extension of Perimeter
Road from Highway 9 South to
Highway 53 West.
According to a handout given
to citizens at the event, “the
project proposes to construct a
new roadway to allow traffic
travelling along SR 53 to bypass
downtown Dawsonville.”
Creating such a bypass has
been the subject of much
debate since the late-90s, as
many people have discussed the
truck traffic through downtown
as being dangerous or limiting
development.
According to a press release
from the City of Dawsonville,
“The proposed project would
enable the City to achieve a
more appealing, walkable, and
safe downtown area by elimi
nating commercial truck traffic.
Additionally, it would improve
the vital east-west commercial
traffic route as trucks would no
longer have to traverse the bot
tleneck created by the current
route through downtown and
around the historic courthouse.”
Three preliminary designs
were presented at the meeting.
All three alternatives are
shown in detail on page 2A.
They all include at least one
traffic circle added to Hwy. 9
South and one on Hwy. 53
West, and cross at least one
environmentally sensitive area.
See Road 12A
Local celebrities serve breakfast,
community at annual event
Photos by Joshua Demarest Dawson County News
State Representative KevinTanner serves water and coffee to diners during the 11th Annual Family Connection
Celebrity Waiter Breakfast.
Sheriff’s office
investigates
single car wreck
By Joshua Demarest
jdemarest@dawsonnews.com
In the early morning of May 19, Dawson
County Sheriff’s Office received a call
from their counterparts in Lumpkin County
about a single car wreck with no injuries
that had occurred on Nimblewill Gap
Road.
The Lumpkin County authorities had not
been able to locate the wreck and made a
request for the Dawson County Sheriff’s
Office to continue the search on their side
of the county line.
Dawson County Sheriff Deputy Jacob
Ward was dispatched to the call, but Sgt.
Larry Busher responded, volunteering to
go to the scene since Ward was assigned to
the eastern part of the county rather than
the northern part, where the wreck
occurred.
“Dawson,” said Busher, addressing his
dispatcher, “He’s going to be an Eastside
unit. Once I break free from (his current
call), I’ll make my way up there.”
Because of the lack of cell phone recep
tion in the area, neither Lumpkin County
nor Dawson County were able to contact
the subject in the car, Christopher Green,
but had instead been talking with a local
ham radio operator named Raul, who had
been contacted by another ham radio oper
ator, Bill Skinner about the incident.
Skinner had been camping in the area and
come across the wreck.
The Dawson County Sheriff’s Office was
Proceeds go to Family Connections work combating child abuse, neglect
By Joshua Demarest
jdemarest@dawsonnews.com
The Longhorn Steakhouse parking lot
was packed on Friday morning as residents
from all over Dawson County turned up
for the 11th annual Family Connection
Celebrity Waiter Breakfast.
Fonghorn staff had been in the kitchen
since 5:30 a.m. to prepare the eggs, sau
sage, bacon and other breakfast staples for
the event.
The yearly breakfast raises money for
Dawson County Family Connection’s
work combating child abuse and neglect.
“We really just want to raise awareness,”
said Family Connection Coordinator
Nancy Stites. “We’re a nonprofit focusing
on family and children and we thought a
See Breakfast 13A
See Wreck 15A
Escaped Dawson County
inmate recaptured June 5
By Alex Popp
DCN Regional Staff
Officials say a Dawson County inmate
who escaped from a work detail in late
May has been recaptured in Forsyth
County by authorities.
According to Forsyth County Sheriff’s
Office spokesman Cpl. Doug
Rainwater, Jeremy Fee Pruitt-Akins, 29
and a female suspect, Fea Marie Propst,
27, were taken into custody June 5 after
they were found walking along Burruss
Mill Road in northeast Forsyth.
See Inmate 18A
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Dawsonville, Georgia
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Deaths
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Legals
8B
Opinion
9A
Sports
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4A Board of
Commissioners
discuss effects of
Dawson tourism
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