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FOOTBALL: GCHS Tigers get first playoff win in nearly 10 years
Your official newspaper serving Greene, Morgan and Putnam counties in Georgia’s Lake Country | www.LakeOconeeNews.us
VOL. 18 NO. 46 G FRIDAY NOVEMBER 18 2016 75 CENTS
Mark Engel/Staff
Kids explore the fire trucks at the Creshamville Fire Station open house.
FIRE STATION OPEN
Greshamville dedicates new building
Mark Engel engine. Ethele wants Tsushima to appreci-
engel@lakeoconeenews.us They and other members of the ate the great service fire and rescue
Greshamville community turned volunteers provide the people of
It was Tsushima Harris’ seventh out despite the rain Sunday to help Greene County,
birthday and his grandmother, dedicate the new fire station built this She says last year, two days after
Ethele Harris, helped him climb into year off Highway 278 at Farmington
the passenger seat of a bright red fire Road. STATION » A12
GREENE COUNTY
Usry wants to
unify county
Mark Engel
engel@lakeoconeenews.us
It’s late morning at Greensboro Tire and owner Gary
Usry is behind the counter sticking the chip credit card
into the machine, printing a receipt and handing the
customer her keys.
A reporter says to her, “since he’s a politician now,
maybe you should ask for the Greene County voter
discount.” Usry laughs and she says, “I worked on his
campaign.”
SEE USRY » A8
USRY APPOINTED TO VACANT
BOC CHAIRMAN SEAT » PACE A8
Mark Engel/Staff
Local businessman Cary Usry is back in local
government with his election and appointment to
the vacant chairman's seat.
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Calendar B5
Churches B8
Classifieds D4
Community B1
Opinions A4
Recipes D1
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Morgan County school officials surprise Angela Watson with the Teacher of the Year award during her
class Tuesday. On hand for the moment were (l-r) Morgan School superintendent Dr. James Woodard,
assistant superintendent for student services and community relations Sarah Burbach, Charles Watson
(Angela's husband), Angela Watson, Morgan County Elementary School principal Ty Snyder and assistant
superintendent for teaching and learning Jean Triplett.
Watson chosen as Morgan County
School System Teacher of the Year
T. Michael Stone
michael@lakeoconeenews.us
Angela Watson has been chosen
as Morgan County’s Teacher of the
Year for 2016. Watson is a special
education collaborative teacher
at Morgan County Elementary
School.
She was born in Doraville and
is now married to Morgan County
native Charles Watson.
She graduated from Georgia
Southern with a bachelor of science
degree and earned her master’s
degree in special education from
Piedmont College in 2011. She is in
her 11 th year at Morgan County Ele
mentary School.
Angela will now complete a
lengthy application for the State
Teacher of the Year contest and will
represent Morgan County Charter
School System all year.
Each school selects a Teacher of
SEE TEACHER » A8
MORGAN COUNTY
Man killed
in apparent
hunting
accident
T. Michael Stone
michael@lakeoconeenews.us
A Morgan County man
was killed while he was deer
hunting in Jasper County on
property east of Highway 16
last Friday afternoon, accord
ing to the GBI.
Jasper County Coroner Billy
Norris said Joseph Wesley
Hoffman, 34, of a Morgan
County address in Buckhead
died Nov. 11 due to a gunshot
wound to the abdomen he
received at approximately 5:45
p.m.
At the request of the Jasper
County Sheriffs Office, the
Georgia Bureau of Investiga
tion investigated the death.
According to Joe Wooten,
a special agent with the GBI’s
District 6 office in Milled-
SEE KILLED » A8
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