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..... I,III,..II...II, III! I III. I>.l.l..11.1,1 4*2 '♦AIL FOR ADC 301 GEORGIA NEWS>APB? PROJECT UNIV OF GA Police " Someon needs He/p' ATHENS GA 30602-0001 lyron Seeking e * Must seel Two full Ull bIG blooded bulls. Very female gentle and pitt of life Missing Woman yearly lovable. shots Spayed complete and . Call 478-213-1283. A See 2 Below The Fold preferred desired. home togeth¬ page er is >3 Hi Ep t & XmmWflt r riHiiift , ! w *. Vol. 126 Issue No. 32 500 Peach ■ September Legal Organ For Peach County, City of Fort Valley and City Of Byron Byron Businessman Slain in Naner Bonds P mem Jermontae Artez Moss A Warner Robins teenager is in ustody, charged with felony murder, n the death of Byron resident Jose /larin. Marin. 43, owned Mexican food tores in Warner Robins. Fort Valley nd Griffin. According to reports. Marin was nloading a truck at Marin Mexican •ood #2 on Bowling Dr. near Watson llvd. Last Thursday night. A gun tan approached Marin demanding toncy and shot him once after the tore owner put down a crate. A store mployee who had been inside ran ut to find Marin unresponsive with single gunshot wound Marin was iken to Houston Medical Center, /here died from the gunshot wound. Police searched near the store and nested Jermontae Artez Moss, 17, /ho fit witness descriptions. After uestioning. Moss was charged with ;lony murder and theft by receiving fter police found a stolen handgun in is possession. lyron Police Seeking Missing Woman 4 1 m I 1 4 Latisha Styles By Victor Kulkosky News Editor Investigators need the public's help i finding a Byron woman who not een seen for nearly two months. Byron Police Del. Melanie Bickford lid in an interview that investiga¬ tes are trying to find Latisha Styles, 6, who lives in a Byron Housing uthority home. Bickford described le misssing woman as black female, xxit 5'4” and 140 pounds. Bickford said the Housing uthority checked on Styles' resi ence and found many of her bekmg igs. including a cell phone, but no gn that she had been there in a long me. A sister who lives in Warner obins filed a missing person report ith Warner Robins police about a lonth ago. She repoted last seeing or sister on July 25. Bickford said receifX found at Styles' residence as dated July 30. which is the last _ / / BPD Wins Highway Safety Award I SMS; — ' IS *em c H 771 $ t - -Ift ■ I I * . \\ A i Clrotlt Owl Those Wheels! The Byron Police Department received a Ford F250 as the Grand Prize in the traffic 2011 Governor's safety. front Challenge, of which truck, acknowledges l-r: law enforcement Chief agencies for their work in highway and In the Sgt. Eric Farris, Wesley Cannon, Byron Mayor Larry Collins, and Officer Steve Perrell. Photo by Victor Kulkosky News Editor Byron Police Chief Wesley Cannon has a management problem on his hands: How to decide who gets to drive the Avera Drugs Closes Its Doors iT'TTP * V r-* V 1 r 1 J yV , r , AVERA DRUGS 'lUIIVIIHl , The sign in front of Avera Drugs shows how long the store has been in business. Avera Drugs closed last week, with accounts and existing inventory transferring to CVS. Photo by Victor Kulkosky % i t . i m 1 P Ui I— Unf Uv« Hm King «mI Quaan! The 2011 Peach County Hiah School Homecoming King and Queen were crowned at halftime during the Peoch-Westside game. The Queen is Miss Senior, Jordan Rigdon and the King is Ryan Bowman, doing double duty as a PCHS Trojans line¬ backer. Photo Victor new The “problem" comes from the Byron Police Department winning the 2011 Governor's Challenge admlnis tered through the Governor's Office of Highway Safety. According to the Governor’s Challenge website: “The By Victor Kullkosky News Editor Avera Drugs in downtown Fort Valley closed its doors last week, end¬ ing the run of what had been the oldest continuously operating pharmacy in the state. The closing of the 141 -year-old busi¬ ness came without warning. The store opened for business last Wednesday. Other Main Street business owners saw CVS Pharmacy employees clear¬ ing out the store's inventory that night. Last Friday, customers were still walking up to the store's entrance on Main Street before noticing the sign that announced the closing and told customers to pick up their prescription at the CVS on Vineville Street. Avera Drugs was one of Fort Valley's oldest businesses and carried the dis Continued to page 10A __ is a incentive program designed to-award outstanding achievemenhHfnftgUWfty safety enforcement and education.” Several awards are given to police department's according to size. Continued to page 3A ____ County Dedicates New Public By Mark C.L. Walker Leader-Tribune Intern Peach County dedicate its new pub¬ lic safety complex in memory of J.D. "Donnie" Doles, father of the current Peach County Fire Chief Jeff Doles. Donnie Doles was one of the first elected Peach county commissioners and was instrumental in the start¬ ing the Powersville fire Department and the purchase of the first "Fire Knocker", which later developed into the Peach county Fire Department. September 24, 2011 was the offi¬ cial dedication ceremony for the new Public Safety Complex, fringing out local police, emergency medical ser¬ vice. firefighters, city officials and the community. The Station will replace the older station #6 and will be able to accom¬ modate more workers and more I Pe t 11 ( Grant Could Lead to Bigger, Better Things for Byron i d . m. Be, %< By Victor Kulkosky News Editor “What do we want Byron to look like? That's a really important ques¬ tion.” Byron Mayor Larry Collins posed that question during an interview last week at his law office on Main Street. That question will be on the minds of officials and residents as Byron plans a $410.(XX) project to revitalize the streetscape of Main Street and build sidewalks on Boy Scout Road in the Toomerville neighborhood. Those two projects are possible due to a Transportation Enhancement grant the federal government recently awarded the city. Federal funds will pay 80% of the project cost, or $328,000. with Byron contributing the remaining $82,000, or 20%. The city's share will come from 2008 SPLOST funds the City Council voted to appropriate at a called meeting last week. To lay the background for the new projects, Collins went through the history of Main Street and Boy Scout Road. Main Street as we know it today is a product of the 1930s, when Georgia Highway 49 was built as a bypass to carry traffic to Fort Valley. The earlier route had taken Old Macon Road and continued along Moseley Road. The street previously called Broadway was renamed Main Street and extended to Highway 49 to create another route in and out of downtown Byron. As for Boy Scout Road, Collins said it was Walton's Mill Pond Road Continued to page 3A equipment to offer the county a lot more fire protection. “With the addition of this station there will be more fire protection for this part of the town; as far as the county and the city goes we will be a lot closer as well so we can provide back up if needed." said Jawar Brown, Peach County Firefighter. For Peach County Fire Chief Jeff Doles, the dedication held great sig¬ nificance. “This is very emotional day for me,” Doles said, “my dad served 20 years cm the Board erf Commissioners and I appreciate all the people who wrote letters asking for this to be done and it makes me swell with pride to know this building is named after my father."