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Greene County High School Tigers score 90-plus in three straight games Your official newspaper sewing Greene, Morgan and Putnam counties in Georgia's Lake Country \ www.LakeOconeeNews.us 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 FRIDAY 68/51 T-storms Likely WEATHER »D6 0 94922 87855 7 Published by Smith Communications Inc. 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 BEAT THE (MmS CALL TEAM 866 Harmony Rd. Eatonton, GA | Phone: 706-485-5456 | www.bryant-air.com
