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INDEX
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Business 18A
Classifieds 7B
Deaths 2A
Events. 12A
Horoscope 13A
Legals 4B
Opinion 22A
Schools 10A
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Sheriff says attorney's claims are untrue
By Colby Jones
Staff Writer
In a letter to District Attorney Phil
Smith, Sheriff Denny Hendrix said Monday
he was “shocked and appalled” by local
attorney Jim Hardy’s allegations of miscon
duct by the Sheriff’s Office.
“It is my full intent that Mr. Jim Hardy
will stand accountable for these slanderous,
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aglow on Thursday with the
opening of the Cumming
Country Fair & Festival. The
James H. Drew Exposition
will be on the midway and
fair-goers can enjoy rides
which were being unloading
and set up on Monday.
This fair worker was touch
ing up the paint on one of
the-trailers hauling equip
ment and materials into the
Cumming Fairgrounds for
the Thursday opening
night. The fair and festival
runs through Oct. 17.
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Cumming Country Fair & Festival
will open Thursday at fairgrounds
By Colby Jones & Laura Lavezzo
Staff Writers
A little dirt by the road
shouldn’t detour residents from
enjoying this week’s Cumming
Country Fair & Festival.
City officials say they don’t
expect ongoing construction on
Castleberry Road to dampen the
fair, which opens Thursday, Oct. 8,
and runs through Saturday, Oct.
17, at the Cumming Fairgrounds.
Natural gas provider choices
ahead with Nov. 1 deregulation
By Therese Allen
Staff Writer
Times, they are a-changin’.
First, it was the airline industry.
Then, it was the telecommunica
tions industry. Now, it’s time to
deregulate natural gas.
On Tuesday, Oct. 6, the
Georgia Public Service
Commission is expected to deter
mine the final list of natural gas
marketers that will serve Georgia
natural gas consumers when
deregulation occurs.
The market opens to competi-
myself and the Forsyth County Sheriff’s
Office which places our integrity in jeop
ardy. Also, Mr. Hardy suggests that the
Sheriff’s Office condones criminal activity
within its ranks. This is once again an
unfounded and unwarranted accusation,”
Hendrix said.
In a motion for a new trial filed last
Monday, Hardy called for a grand jury
investigation into the Sheriff’s Office con
cerning its treatment of Jerry Lee
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City manager Gerald
Blackbum said there will be plenty
of lighted parking next to the fair
grounds and everything else
should run as usual. The parking
lot of the former Russell
Corporation building will be avail
able for vehicle parking.
Promoted as “down home
country fun,” the fair will feature a
wide array of crafts demonstrators,
entertainers and food vendors.
Representatives from several com-
PSC to release marketers list on Tuesday
tion on Nov. 1. Approved mar
keters can then immediately mar
ket their services to the more than
1.4 million Georgians affected by
the change.
The new state law, passed in
1997, allows natural gas in the ter
ritory accessible by Atlanta Gas
Light lines to be deregulated or
opened to competition.
After a transition period, AGL
will no longer sell natural gas, and
individuals who have been served
munity organizations will also be
set up to provide information and
to recruit volunteers during the fair.
The Heritage Village looks at
the way life used to be in the
Northeast Georgia region.
It will contain an active moon
shine still, cotton gin and black
smith shop that Forsyth County
fair-goers have come to brag about
regionally.
See FAIR, Page 4A
through AGL’s service will have to
choose a new gas marketer.
If the consumer does not select a
gas marketer, then the PSC will ran
domly assign the consumer to one.
AGL will still operate the
pipelines that supply natural gas.
No deadline for switching with
be established until one third of
the state’s natural gas consumers
have changed.
See CHOICE, Page 2A
Lancaster.
Lancaster was incarcerated at the-
Forsyth County jail after being arrested for
robbing 70-year-old Thelma Hammond at
knife point in March 1997.
Lancaster confessed to the crime and
agreed to testify against his cousin, Jason
Johnson, as part of his plea. He will serve
15 years of a 35-year sentence. A jury
found Johnson guilty on all counts and
Senior Judge Don A. Langham sentenced
Budget worries:
Deputies’ pay,
unsafe patrol
vehicles should
be addressed
By LeAnne T. Bell
Corporate Editor
Deputies with young families must rely on food stamps
and other government programs to supplement their county
paychecks, said several speaking at Monday’s hearing on
the 1999 county budget proposal.
Seven people, including several Sheriff’s office
employees and a member of the Sheriff’s Citizen Advisory
Committee, addressed the Forsyth County Board of
Commissioners and expressed concerns about the noncom
petitive pay for employees and unsafe equipment.
See BUDGET, Page 2A
County logs 25th
fatal wreck of ’9B
By Colby Jones
Staff Writer
A 34-year-old Hall County man was killed early
Saturday morning after his 1992 Ford Mustang struck a
tree and then a telephone pole.
According to Forsyth County deputies, Gainesville resi
dent Timothy Lee Maddox lost control of his vehicle near
the intersection of Hwy. 306 and Little Mill Road at 2:19
a.m. The car left the roadway, hitting the tree and telephone
pole.
See WRECK, Page 2A
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Edward Frachiseur was busy tending his father’s Hwy. 20
shop, Clyde’s P-nut Patch over the weekend. Boiled peanuts,
pumpkins and pine straw are among the commodities sold.
him to life in prison plus 47 additional years
> on lesser charges.
During his testimony two weeks ago,
t Lancaster said he was moved from the
county detention center to the city jail
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: Hardy subpoenaed Hendrix after the tes-
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