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VOL. 18 NO. 40 g FRIDAY OCTOBER 7 2016 75 CENTS
Jackie Gutknecht/Staff
Traffic is at a standstill as Georgia State Patrol Troopers investigate the scene of an overturned tractor-trailer
on Interstate 20.
DRIVER IDENTIFIED
Sustained fatal injuries in 1-20 chicken truck accident
Jackie Gutknecht
jackie@lakeoconeenews.us
Traffic on Interstate 20 was
stopped for more than seven
hours last Wednesday after a
tractor-trailer full of chicken
overturned.
The driver of the truck,
Murray Hitchcock Nero Jr.,
suffered fatal injuries during the
accident. He was 52-years-old
and his driver’s license showed
a Decatur address, Greene
SEE WRECK » A12
Georgia
State Patrol
Troopers
investigate
the cab of the
overturned
tractor-
trailer, which
resulted in a
fatality of the
driver.
Jackie
Gutknecht/
Staff
Contributed
The Highway 44 intersection with Linger Longer
Road in Greene County will be where the two DOT
road widening projects meet. The construction is
expected to start in two years to be completed by
2021.
Wider roads
coming...
eventually
Mark Engel
engel@lakeoconeenews.us
If you’ve ever been in
heavy traffic on Highway
441 from Madison to
Eatonton or trapped for
hours on Highway 44
waiting for a wrecked
logging or transport truck
to be cleared, help is on
the way. But you’ll have to
be patient. For about five
years.
Georgia DOT engineers
speaking at this week’s
meeting of the Lake
Oconee Area Builders As
sociation confirmed that
right of way is already
being purchased for the
widening of Highway
44. The two lane road
will be expanded to four
lanes from just north of
Interstate 20 in Greene
County to the Highway
441 Eatonton Bypass in
Putnam County.
Bids will be let two years
from now - October 2018
- for the southern stretch
of the project, which runs
from Linger Longer Road
in Greene County to
outside Eatonton. Con-
SEE ROADS » A12
index
Calendar B4-5
Churches B6
Classifieds D4
Community B1
Obituaries A8
Opinions A4
Recipes D1
Sports C1
Sports C1
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Mark Smith Jr./Staff
Cailee Anderson is crowned the Morgan County High School
Homecoming Queen by last year's queen. Summer Stevens, during
halftime of Friday's night's football game against East Jackson.
MORGAN COUNTY
Cops investigate bizarre
stolen property case
Katherine Klimt
katherine@lakeoconeenews.us
In a peculiar case that contin
ues to unfold, the Morgan County
Sheriff s Office is continuing its in
vestigation into a vehicle theft that
occurred last Sunday. The vehicle
has been recovered, but questions
remain surrounding the circum
stances of its alleged theft.
At around 5:30 a.m., Deputy
William Lundy of the Morgan
County Sheriffs Office responded
to a stolen vehicle report called
in by William Savard, 39, of 1010
Long Wood Drive, Rutledge.
Savard told the officer that he
had awoken to the sound of his
truck, a blue 1996 GMC 2500,
SEE PROPERTY » A8
PUTNAM COUNTY
Unconfirmed details emerge in PC
woman's fatal Atlanta shooting
From staff reports
Authorities have yet to
officially release any ex
planation of how a gun
discharged in a car last
week, fatally wounding a
Putnam County woman.
However, a man de
scribed as “a public
agent and longtime friend” of the
woman’s husband, is offering one
— even though he apparently did
not witness the Sept. 25 late night
Claud "Tex"
Mclver
relations tabloid
shooting.
“It was a tragic
accident,” the man, Bill
Crane, said about the
shooting in a story that
was posted Sept. 29 on
the website of The Fulton
County Daily Report,
an Atlanta-based daily
newspaper that covers
Atlanta legal and business news.
Crane reportedly told the Daily
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