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VOL. 19 NO. 3 FRIDAY JANUARY 20 2017 75 GENTS
GREENE COUNTY
MAN FALLS TO HIS DEATH IN WHITE PLAINS
T. Michael Stone
michael@lakeoconeenews.us
A Conyers man was found dead
Monday afternoon after he fell
from the roof of a two-story home
in White Plains.
According to an incident report
obtained from the Greene County
Sheriffs Office, Jonathan Carter,
57, was blowing pine straw off the
roof with a blower when he slipped
and fell.
Witness Charlie Kimbrell, who
lives next door, said he looked out
the window and saw Carter slip
and then begin to slide down the
roof but lost sight of him before he
reached the edge.
Kimbrell, a first responder for
Greene County, said he grabbed
his radio and went to check on
Carter.
According to the incident
report, Kimbrell checked for in
vain for any vital signs.
Greene County deputy Michael
Griffin was dispatched to the scene
and found Carter lying on his back
on the cement porch porch.
According to the report, Carter
was lying next to a ladder with one
leg draped across a wooden chair
SEE DEATH » A2
GREENE COUNTY
Greene County School
Board members and
Superintendent Chris
Houston participate in
a training session led
by Zenda Bowie of the
Georgia School Board
Association. Seated
on left side of table
are board members
John Heinen, Clarence
Hunt and Velicia Cobb;
(seated right side of
table), Houston, Joe
Bashore and Chaiman
Mike Lynch.
Mark Engel/Staff
Greene BOE targets problems
Mark Engel
engel@lakeoconeenews.us
What do Grimm’s fairy tales, The Lone
Ranger and the Greene County Board of
Education have in common?
For an organization looking to solve so
many problems facing the public educa
tion system, there is no one magic solution.
There is no one big answer.
There is no “silver bullet” to miraculously
slay an evil witch or to be left behind by a
masked man who brings justice to the wild
west in 30 minutes.
“Change is not firing off silver bullets
wherever,” chairman Mike Lynch
SEE EDUCATION » A2
MORGAN COUNTY
Housing Comm,
report details
successful year
Katherine Klimt
katherine@lakeoconeenews.us
Last Friday’s meeting of the Housing
Opportunity Commission [HOC]
welcomed a new member and explored
options for the first months of the
upcoming year.
New to the HOC this year is Cheryl
Bland. Her term on the commission
will last until the end of 2019. Bland,
a native of Gray and a graduate of
Georgia Southern University, was also
elected to the Morgan County Board of
Education last November.
The 2016 Georgia Initiative for
Community Housing (GICH) Report
SEE HOUSING » A3
index
Calendar B5
Churches B8
Classifieds D3
Community B1
Opinions A4
Recipes D1
Sports Cl
C3
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GREENE COUNTY
Mark Engel/Staff
Greensboro resident Paul Postlmayr asked the city council
Tuesday night to resume efforts to get the state to build
a bypass around the city so heavy trucks do not have
to travel on Highway 15 through the historic downtown
district.
Does Greensboro need a bypass?
Mark Engel
engel@lakeoconeenews.us
If you’ve ever spent some time in
downtown Greensboro, you know exactly
what Paul Postlmayr is talking about.
Postlmayr asked the Greensboro City
Council Tuesday night to get the heavy
trucks off Highwayl5 and on to a bypass
that will take them around the city.
“We call ourselves a historic city but
we let heavy trucks drive through our
city every day,” he said. “In 2007, that
downtown core had 12,000 trucks come
through.”
The study was done 10 years ago by the
Georgia Department of Transportation.
There have been at least two previous
plans for bypasses around Greensboro -
one on the east side and another on the
west.
City manager Larry Postell says funding
kept being taken away until the projects
eventually fell off the list.
One bypass plan that was originally
schedule for 2008 now is listed on the
GDOT website for 2051.
‘You can see how the priorities are con
stantly changing,” Postell said. “The ne
cessity for highways to be able to handle
the expected doubling of port traffic in
Savannah is causing all the resources to
go to that.”
The Savannah port is expected to dra
matically increase the shipping traffic from
larger ships that can now pass through the
newly widened Panama Canal.
Postell says Highway 44 was deemed
to be an important route so the current
project to four-lane the road from Greens-
SEE BYPASS » A2
PUTNAM COUNTY
Report: Causey choked woman in Tennessee
Lynn Hobbs
lynn@lakeoconeenews.us
The man authorities say strangled and
drowned an Eatonton homeowner is also
wanted in Tennessee for reportedly stran
gling another woman there.
Frank Don Causey, 26, formerly of202-B
Putnam Ave., Eatonton, is in Putnam
County Jail, charged with the murder of
63-year-old Lydia Huggins Ivanditti, who
was found dead in her 307 W. Walnut St.
home Dec. 2, 2016. Causey was arrested
while he was at work at Horton Haulers
in Eatonton Dec. 20 by Georgia Bureau of
Investigations Agent David Peebles.
According to reports obtained by The
Eatonton Messenger, Eatonton Police
Investigator Howell Cardwell contact
ed the Shelby County, Tenn. Sheriffs
Office because Cardwell was investigat
ing a report from the local Department
of Family and Children’s Services about
Causey. Shelby County authorities told
Cardwell they “had two outstanding
SEE CAUSEY » A2
Causey
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