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GREENE COUNTY
Moore resigns as UPSA principal
Jackie Gutknecht/Staff
Dr. Delmon Moore filed his
resignation letter effective
immediately and cited personal
reasons.
Jackie Gutknecht
jackie@lakeoconeenews.us
Union Point STEaM Academy
is without a principal after Dr.
Delmon Moore filed his resigna
tion letter effective immediately
Feb. 12 for personal reasons, UPSA
Governance Board Chairman Steve
Kilgore said Monday morning.
“I can confirm that I have received
a resignation letter from Mr. Moore
and will present that to the board of
education for approval at the next
meeting. I cannot comment further
regarding personnel matters,”
Interim Greene County School
System Superintendent Chris
Houston said Monday in an email.
The UPSA board held a special
called meeting Tuesday to discuss
the schools administrative plan and
principal search.
Two UPSA governance board
members, Michael Tompkins and
Deborah Prothro, are going to fill in
the role as liaisons between the gov
ernance board and the school for
the time being. Tompkins, Kathleen
Myers and J. Boswell will make up
the board’s principal search com
mittee, Board Chairman Steve
Kilgore said.
Boswell said this is a “fluid situa
tion” and could change in a matter
of days.
Tompkins said he and Prothro
are not going to be at the school
every day, but will come in when
needed.
Kilgore said he did not know what
to expect coming into the meeting,
but was “pleasantly surprised” with
the parent turnout.
Moore was hired as principal of
UPSA in June of 2014.
SEE MOORE » A2
T. Micheal Stone/Staff
Alexis "Pumpkin" Brown celebrates her third region championship with future
Lady Bulldog Bailey Heath. SEE SPORTS, PAGE Cl
PUTNAM COUNTY
Fatal crash
undetected
Passerby spots badly crumpled
pickup rolled over along road
Don Richeson
editor@msgr.com
An Eatonton man’s
remains were discov
ered along Glenwood
Springs Road around
6 a.m. Saturday after
he was ejected during a
crash — apparently about
four hours earlier. Marco
Antonio Levya-Carde-
nas, 28, died at the scene
after being thrown from
his truck after it ran off
the road, Putnam County
Sheriff Howard Sills told
The Messenger Monday.
The 110 Custer Ave.
resident was eastbound
on Glenwood Springs
Road when for unknown
reasons his 2004 Nissan
4X4 extended cab pickup
left the roadway, hit a
driveway culvert, became
airborne and rolled at
least three times. At some
point as the vehicle was in
mid-roll the driver, who
was not wearing a seatbelt,
was launched from the
vehicle. The pickup came
to rest upright on the
SEE CRASH » A2
GREENE COUNTY
Miller wants city to add
new basketball courts
Greensboro City Coun
cilman Morris Miller
wants the city to work
on public basketball
courts for the children
of the city, he said during
Monday night’s council
meeting.
Miller said the Carson
Middle School boys bas
ketball team made it to
the championship game,
but outside of school the
athletes have nowhere to
play ball.
“I still feel like as a city
we need to identify us a
place for two basketball
courts, goals at least,
for the kids to have for
recreation,” he said. “I
think that’s a part of our
problem, a lot of our kids
can get out to the rec.
department, but a lot of
them can’t.”
Miller said it is easy to
tell which students have
access to a basketball
goal outside of school
when it comes time for
basketball season.
“I really think that
some of our youth in our
city would really appre
ciate it, and I think we
could monitor it real
well,” he said. “I just feel
like we just need some
thing like that in our city.”
Miller said he did not
think it would be a huge
expense for the city, and
he proposed adding the
basketball courts some
where near the police
department.
- Jackie Gutknecht
Don Richeson/Staff
Putnam County commissioners Tuesday night approved rezoning of the parcel
to the immediate right of this Lake Oconee boat storage complex, giving a green
light to commercial development on a lot that had been zoned residential.
Marina expansion approved
Don Richeson
editor@msgr.com
The Putnam County Board of Commis
sioners OK’d a rezoning request that will
allow expansion of the Fish Tale Marina
complex on Lake Oconee. The complex,
which is anchored by a three-story boat
storage building near Lick Creek, can
now push commercial development onto
an adjacent .94-acre lot at 108 Briarpatch
Road, NE that had been zoned for resi
dential use. The approval, which came
with certain special conditions, was the
result of a 5-0 vote at the commissioners
meeting Tuesday — its regular monthly
evening meeting. It followed a vote
earlier in the meeting in which District 3
Commissioner Alan Foster had sought to
deny the change in zoning from R-2 to C-l.
SEE MARINA » A3
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