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Your official newspaper serving Greene, Morgan and Putnam counties in Georgia’s Lake Country | www.LakeOconeeNews.us 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 FRIDAY 82/60 Mostly Sunny WEATHER »D7 0 94922 87855 7 Published by Smith Communications Inc. 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 SEE MCIVER » A8 2701 PARROTTS POINTE ROAD oCaQ Oconee's Ocst m cJ^eaCOstate Group Who you choose to work with in real estate makes all the difference... LUXURY HOMES INTERNATIONAL "We could not be happier with the quality of attention, knowledge, professionalism and patience afforded to us by Jonathan and Alyce during the sale of our home, as well as the search for and purchase of our "forever" dream home. Their attention to detail and follow up, along with their helpful and kind demeanor, made it much easier to relax during what is usually a very exciting, but stressful time. We feel blessed to have signed with The Vining Group....Thank you, Jonathan and Alyce!" - BOB AND CAROL RAUSS ★ ★★★★ HIGHLY LIKELY TO RECOMMEND
