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Morgan owns region 8-AAA again; both basketball teams win region juniafiMi ill! tli— J Lake Oconee News J Your official newspaper serving Greene, Morgan and Putnam counties in Georgia's Lake Country \ www.LakeOconeeNews.us FRIDAY FEBRUARY 19 2016 VOL. 18 NO. 7 75 CENTS ST. MARY'S HEART & SOUL GALA A HUGE SUCCESS community » B2-3 VOTING FOR THE DANCING WITH THE LAKE OCONEE STARS UNDER WAY! community » B1 STAY CONNECTED n facebook.com/ lakeoconeenews (ffilakeoconeenews ©lakeoconeenews index Calendar B4-5 Churches B6 Classifieds D4 Community B1 Obituaries A6 Opinions A4 Recipes D1 Sports L C1 FRIDAY 64/47 Sunny WEATHER »D7 0 94922 87855 7 Published by Smith Communications Inc. 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 /smem W . ^ YT/— rA\ 1 st PLACE AGAIN! IN SELLING ENERGY EFFICIENT HEAT PUMPS IN OUR REGION FOR mm 866 Harmony Rd. Eatonton, GA | Phone: 706-485-5456 | www.bryant-air.com LIKE US ON FACEBOOK
