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FRIDAY JANUARY 22 2016
VOL. 18 NO. 3
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MORGAN COUNTY
Plane crash near downtown Madison
Jeff Warren
jeff@lakeoconeenews.us
A small single-engine airplane
crash-landed in Madison around
7:35 p.m. Sunday about 2,000 feet
southeast of the downtown square.
The aircraft came to rest near the
intersection of E. Washington and
Vine streets. No tire resulted from
the crash. No one was hurt on the
ground.
The two men aboard the plane
survived the crash and went by am
bulance to Athens Regional Medical
Center. Their names have been
withheld. City of Madison firefight
ers responded to the downed plane
along with EMS, assisted by county
firefighters and lawmen of the city
police, the county sheriffs office and
the Georgia State Patrol, who re
stricted traffic into the area.
Both fliers were outside the
aircraft when firefighters arrived,
reported Gene Porter of the Madison
Fire Dept. One man climbed out on
his own, Porter said. “The other, I
believe bystanders helped get him
out, afraid the plane would catch
fire,” Porter related. “There was a
small fuel spill that we contained
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Contributed/Barbara Freeman
The downed planed came to rest near the intersection of E.
Washington and Vine streets.
MORGAN COUNTY
GREENE COUNTY
King remembered
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Mr. Bennie V. Williams, NAACP Member and Master of Ceremony for the MLK Day Breakfast, led those
in attendance in a Congregational Song entitled "Lift Every Voice and Sing." SEE MORE PICTURES,
PAGE A2.
Houston
chosen
to lead
schools
Jackie Gutknecht
jackie@lakeoconeenews.us
Greene County Board of Ed
ucation named Greene County
Sheriff Dr. Chris Houston as
the interim superintendent
of the Greene County School
System in a 3-1 vote Tuesday
night. BOE member Clarence
Hunt voted against the chair
man’s recommendation and
BOE member Deborah Smith
recused herself from the vote.
Houston’s first day as
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Rep. Jody Hice, left, confers with Zippy Duvall during a function
last summer at the Georgia Farm Bureau office in Greensboro.
Duvall elected AFBF president
Zippy Duvall, who has served who served 16 years at the helm
as president of Georgia Farm of the nation’s largest, most influ-
Bureau since 2006, was elected ential general farm organization,
for a two-year term as American Stallman announced last July he
Farm Bureau Federation president would step down at the end of his
by the voting delegates at the 97th term.
AFBF Annual Convention on Jan. Duvall, a broiler, cattle and hay
12, in Orlando.
Duvall succeeds Bob Stallman, SEE DUVALL » A3
LAKE COUNTRY
Deadline close for
Presidential primary
Jeff Warren
jeff@lakeoconeenews.us
The deadline to register to vote
in Georgia’s Presidential Pref
erence Primary is immediately
upon us. Monday, Feb. 1, is the
final day to register and secure
the opportunity to participate in
the election if you are not already
a registered voter in the commu
nity where you live. That leaves
just two weeks to become regis
tered and make your vote count.
Registration may be accom
plished in person at the voter
registration office of the Georgia
county where you reside. In
Greene County, that office is at
1180 C. Weldon Smith Drive,
Suite 120, in Greensboro, south
of U.S. Highway 278 and north of
the railroad. In Morgan County,
the voter registration office is at
434 Hancock St. in downtown
Madison near the courthouse.
Putnam County’s voter registra
tion office is inside the Putnam
County Courthouse in downtown
Eatonton.
To register to vote, you must be
a citizen of the United States and
a resident of the county where you
register. You also must present a
photo ID to verify your identity.
A driver’s license, a state-issued
identification card, a passport or
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