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Page A10 Lake Oconee News Friday, July 21, 2017 Bulletin Continued from A1 lisher, and DuBose Porter, former executive editor, joined A. Mark Smith Sr., president of Smith Communications, for the an nouncement. Lovett spoke highly of the com munity and Smith Communica tions. “The Baldwin Bulletin is a great asset for Milledgeville and Baldwin County, and we have certainly enjoyed being a part of this community,” he said. “We have also seen how the growth along the lake has merged the business in this community toward Putnam County. This sale to Mark Smith and his team is a better fit. They will make certain that The Bulletin remains Milledgeville’s commu nity newspaper.” Porter said he sees a bright future for The Bulletin under Smith’s leadership. “Mark Smith and his team un derstand community journalism, and they will make The Baldwin Bulletin one of Georgia’s best community newspapers. We have certainly enjoyed being a part of Milledgeville and Baldwin County, but the growth north makes this relationship a stronger place for growing this product. “This talented group under stands why a newspaper is so important to the growth and de velopment of our communities, and they will make certain that the partnership with Milled geville and Baldwin County and the readers of this newspaper will continue to strengthen and grow.” Smith also announced that his son, Matt, will serve as general manager for The Bidletin. Wil Petty, who has been working for the Lake Oconee News, has been named associate editor. Brandi Harrison will remain on staff in advertising sales. Matt Smith said he looks forward to working with the staff to produce a quality product. “I am extremely pleased to have the opportunity to work with our enthusiastic Baldwin Bulletin staff,” he said. “Our goal is to provide our loyal patrons with the most factual and pertinent infor mation possible.” Mark Smith said he looks forward to reaching existing and new readers with a strong product. “We are excited to add The Baldwin Bulletin to our coverage in the area,” he said. “The Bulletin has had a solid base of loyal readers for many years.” The publisher added that he is the fifth generation of newspaper people in his family. Matt Smith and Mark Smith Jr., who is vice president of advertising, are the sixth generation. The family moved into Lake Country when they purchased The Eatonton Messenger in 1956. T. Michael Stone/Staff The Morgan County Board of Education (l-r) superintendent Dr. James Woodard, Cheryl Bland, Nelson Hale, Brad Evans and Kieth Howard) accepts special recognition from Lt. Governor Casey Cagle and the Georgia Charter System Foundation which named the Morgan County School System an Outstanding Charter School System last month. According to superintendent Dr. James Woodard, the Morgan County system was in the top 10 for top honors in the state. Bond Continued from A1 due to its high bond rating (AA+). “I’ve never worked with school system in my 30-year career that has the reserve levels that you do,” Holcomb said. Holcomb praised the school board’s conservative budgets for its excellent ratings. The initial offering was sold with an interest rate of 1.9 percent. Holcomb said the bonds met with such interest when they were made available that $82 million in orders were received for just $15 million in bonds available. The school system will spend more than $27 million to construct and equip the high school and career academy and another $18 million to fund the new middle school. Total cost of improve ments is expected to be more than $46 million, including the cost of the new transpor tation facility. The bonds will be repaid using sales tax revenues. Rollback millage rate Board members are hoping to hold the line on the millage despite some increases in expenditures coming in the next year. The school system will take in more than $30 million in revenue next year with $16 million coming from state sources and $13 million in property taxes. However, the school system will spend more than $32 million this year with $22 million spent on direct instruction, nearly $2 million on adminis tration, $2.2 million on Morgan Continued from A1 her tint was in violation of Georgia law and asked her to step to the rear of the vehicle. McCannon called for back up when he went to his patrol car to get his citation book. As he began writing out his warning citation to Frails, he asked her how long maintenance and opera tions, $1.4 million each on transportation and central support services and just over $1 million on pupil services. At this point, the BOE she had been in the area. She told McCannon she had gone to the mall in Atlanta, but couldn’t say which one. Once Sergeant Jordan Knowles arrived, McCannon asked Frails how much marijuana she had in the vehicle. She said none, but admitted to smoking some earlier. McCannon asked her if Wright had any and she said she didn’t know. When pressed she told McCannon that he did plans to use nearly $2 million of the more than $7 million it has in reserve funds to make up for the increase in expenses to avoid a millage rate hike. The BOE will hold public have marijuana. Wright was asked if he had any marijuana, and he also said no, according to the incident report. McCannon then began a search of the vehicle and found a duffle bag in the floorboard with 16 bags of suspected marijuana with two bags each inside them for a total of 32 bags, ap proximately 32 pounds. According to the crowd sourced web site priceof- hearings to consider the proposed budget for 2018 on July 24 at 6 p.m. and Aug. 7 at 9 a.m. before adopting the final budget following the last hearing to be held on Aug. 14 at 6 p.m. weed.com, 32 pounds of marijuana has a street value of at least $80,000 and possibly as much as $160,000. McCannon also found a box that may have con tained synthetic marijuana packages, but he didn’t he didn’t remove them from the box because “there were so many of them.” Wright and Frails were arrested and taken to the Greene County jail. When you’re selling a property... You need to be seen online. 92% of Buyers search online — so Coldwell Banker syndicates your listing to over 900 websites for maximum exposure. \m COldwlll banker COMMERCIAL | I COLDUieU. 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