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Newspaper Page TextYour official newspaper serving Greene, Morgan and Putnam counties in Georgia’s Lake Country | unvw.LakeOconeeNews.us VOL. 19 NO. 32 FRIDAY AUGUST 11 2017 75 CENTS GREENE COUNTY Council considers canceling cops Mark Engel engel@lakeoconeenews.us Greensboro city councilman Vince Lewis dropped a budget bombshell at Monday night’s regular council meeting. He wants to eliminate the Greensboro Police Department (GPD) and have the Greene County Sheriff s Department take on the responsibility for patrolling inside the city limits. Including police officers and office staff, Lewis says there are about 17 employees who would be affected. Some of them could be hired by the county if the proposal becomes reality. Lewis says the GPD represents a cost of about $1.5 million dollars which is half of the entire city budget. He told the council that he asked Greene County Sheriff Donnie Harrison to put together a proposal that “at a minimum would give Greensboro 24-hour coverage with deputies dedicated to the city exclusively, therefore not compromising the safety and security of our citizens.” Lewis said the cost would be SEE COPS » All CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS A car heading west on 1-20 Tuesday lost control and swerved into the end of the guardrail at milepost 128 Tuesday morning. Greene County Sheriff's Deputy Chris Johnson said the driver, from Virginia, was not hurt. The Dodge Avenger and the guardrail it hit were both heavily damaged. Johnson said the young man was very lucky. No charges were filed. MORGAN COUNTY Madison City Council sets millage rate Katherine Klimt katherine@lakeoconeenews.us In a called meeting on the evening of Thursday, Aug. 3, the city council held public hearings for and ultimately unanimously approved the proposed 2018 millage rates for the city of Madison and the special tax districts of downtown and the corridor (inter state), respectively. As with the county millage rates that were recently approved by the commission, the taxes are consistent with the 2017 budget and were uncontroversial, provoking no comments from the public. SEE MADISON » A10 index Calendar B4 Churches C8 Classifieds D3 Community B1 Obituaries A8 Opinions A4 Recipes D1 Sports C1 Sports C1 FRIDAY 85/71 Scat dT-storms WEATHER »D6 0 94922 87855 7 Published by Smith Communications Inc. GREENE COUNTY New details released in drug trafficking case T. Michael Stone michael@lakeoconeenews.us The Greene County Sheriff s Office has released more details in drug trafficking arrests made on July 28. DerreonZykeam Price, 18, and Saketha Monique Price, 40, both of 3017 Gibson Circle, Augusta, were arrested and charged with trafficking meth- amphetamine, trafficking heroin, possession of ecstasy and possession of a controlled substance: Xanax. The younger Price was also charged with possession of marijuana. According to the incident report, Deputy Patrick Paquette stopped a Nissan Maxima on 1-20 near milepost 138 after he noticed that it had a tempo rary tag on it with no visible expiration date. The vehicle was also impeding the flow of traffic by traveling below the posted speed limit in the left SEE DRUGS » A2 Greene County deputies arrested two people on drug trafficking charges when they discovered heroin, meth and marijuana in their car. CONTRIBUTED GREENE COUNTY Mother speaks out on UPSA-LOA merger Mark Engel School System. She’s a single parent, need to get over their distrust of Thfi Miildsst engel@lakeoconeenews.us working two jobs while nurturing school administrators but, also, the 11-year-old Destiny. school administrators need to earn “The mindset of the parent is Yolanda Callaway attended the Callaway was born and raised in the parents’ trust. ‘they’re going to do what they’re first two community input meetings Greene County and was disheart- She talked passionately about it going to do anyway.’ And that’s the held this month to create a new stra- ened by the low turnout of parents during an interview with the Lake tegic plan for the Greene County at the meetings. To her, parents Oconee News. MOTHER » A2 Group Xakc Oc LUXURY HOMES INTERNATIONAL Who you choose to work with in real estate makes all the difference.. wis&l, i "Excellent service! Jonathan and Alyce _J|fesr\£, s were both very responsive to any ’ fL ; - ^ I lr'& questions we had in addition to heincr verv m SB- . i mm FEATURED LISTING 1160 BENNETT SPRINGS DRIVE questions we had in addition to being very knowledgeable. They know the area so well and SOLD our house in record time - very smooth process!" - Patti Schultz ★★★★★ HIGHLY LIKELY TO RECOMMEND