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PLAYOFF TIME: Morgan Bulldogs, Greene Tigers play Friday Jl] \\ |
Your official newspaper serving Greene, Morgan and Putnam counties in Georgia’s Lake Country | www.LakeOconeeNews.us
VOL. 18 NO. 45 G FRIDAY NOVEMBER 11 2016 75 CENTS
GREENE COUNTY
GREENE GOES RED
BOC, BOE
have new
chairmen
Mark Engel
engel@lakeoconeenews.us
Republicans swept all con
tested races in Greene County
elections Tuesday night despite
a presidential vote so close that
it took more than four hours to
determine that Donald Trump
would take Georgia’s 16 elec
toral votes. In Greene County,
Trump had 62 percent of the
votes to Hillary Clinton’s 36
percent.
Trump garnered 68 percent
of the vote in Morgan County.
It’s clear that the top of the
ticket spurred so much interest
in Greene County that an
amazing 82.4 percent of the
active registered voters went to
the polls. Two thirds of those
voters didn’t wait until Election
Day to make their choices.
Greensboro Tire owner Gary
Usry will be the new chairman
of the Greene County commis
sion. He earned 72 percent of
SEE GREENE » A14
Mark Engel/Staff Mark Engel/Staff
Gary Usry is the new chairman of the Greene Mike Lynch wins the BOE race in Greene
County Board of Commissioners. County.
Leah Dukes
Chamber
president
resigns
Mark Engel
engel@lakeoconeenews.us
Greene County District 4 Board of
Education member Leah Dukes has
resigned as president of the Greene
County Chamber of Commerce.
Dukes, who did not seek re-election
to the Board of Education, accepted the
Chamber’s top position in April. She
succeeded Dick Schneider who served
for a year and a half before announcing
his retirement in December 2015.
She says she turned in her notice
two weeks ago but is still enthusiastic
SEE DUKES » A14
index
Calendar B7
Churches B8
Classifieds D4
Community B1
Obituaries A11
Opinions A4
Recipes D1
Sports i C1
.
FRIDAY
74/45
Sunny
WEATHER »D7
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GREENE COUNTY
Partly cloudy outlook for solar farm ordinance
Mark Engel
engel@lakeoconeenews.us
Paula and Herbert Moore own
about 47 acres of land on Highway
15. Right at the corner of Pear
Orchard. There are eight acres they
haven’t used much.
“We just threw hay on it,” she says
but last year they heard about a new
cash crop they could grow. “We got
something in the mail asking if we
were interested in it. So, I called.”
It was from a company named
Beltline Energy that wanted to lease
the land to install solar panels that
would generate electricity to sell to
Georgia Power.
SEE SOLAR » A3
Paula Brown
thought this
8-acre tract
would become
part of a solar
farm, but a
moratorium
instituted
by Greene
County has
stopped it.
Mark Engel/
Staff
MORGAN COUNTY
Challenger tops incumbent in BOC race
T. Michael Stone seat.
michael@lakeoconeenews.us The race for District 4 was relatively
close with Von Hanstein garnereing
Republicans won both seats up 1,034 votes while Warren received only
for reelection on the Morgan County 761.
Board of Commissioners. “It was a tough race,” Von Hanstein
Phillipp Von Hanstein defeated said following the vote count.
Ellen Warren to win the District 4 seat, “[Warren] did a great job.”
and Ben Riden Jr., defeated Crystal
Benford Thomas to win the District 3 SEE MORGAN » A14 Phillipp Von Hanstein Ben Riden Jr.
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