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Vol. 92, No. 67
Forsyth, Dawson lawmen
join forces on drug bust
By Colby Jones
Staff Writer
Deputies reported seizing roughly two pounds
of “speed” with a street value of about $89,000
during a traffic stop Tuesday afternoon in north
east Forsyth County.
Dawson County resident Mark C. Bain, 31, is
charged by the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office
with trafficking methamphetamine in connection
with a search of his 2000 Ford F 250 pickup.
Deputies also recovered two handguns, $7,000 and
a laptop computer from the truck.
Bain is being held without bond in the Forsyth
County Jail as detectives continue following leads
stemming from his arrest.
According to Forsyth County Sheriff Ted
Paxton, deputies and undercover drug officers
stopped Bain on Driver’s Lane off Parks Road
Etowah River
area under
close scrutiny
County, residents to focus
on zoning plans in hearings
By Phillip Hermann
News Editor
The fate of the Etowah River
district and surrounding commu
nities may well be determined by
how the county and residents of
the area manage residential, com
mercial and industrial growth in
the region.
With that in mind, the Forsyth
County Planning Commission on
Tuesday night conducted the first
of two countywide public hear
ings on the proposed Etowah
Subarea Plan. That plan focuses
on the current land uses for the
region in far more detail than is
included in the county’s Compre
hensive Land Use Management
Plan, although the subarea treatise
is not designed to subordinate the
land use plan.
At Tuesday night’s public
hearing there were no speakers,
but Planning Commission Chair
man Mary Helen McGruder said
two earlier public information ses
sions conducted at Mount Tabor
Baptist Church yielded a lot of
helpful information and recom
mendations that will be imple
mented in the subarea plan.
A second countywide public
hearing is scheduled for the plan
ning commission’s next meeting
on Tuesday, May 29, at 6:30 p.m.
in the auditorium on the second
floor of the county administration
building in downtown Cumming.
McGruder, who represents the
region on the planning commis-
See ETOWAH, Page 2A
H Reflections winners take high
honors at state level
Big Creek Elementary School Principal Dr.
Tom Davis, far left, was on hand to honor
three of his students who earned high
honors at the state level Reflections art
competition. From left, first-grader Kamryn
Coan took first place in the state for his lit
erature entry; kindergartner David Scaff
finished in second place for his music sub
mission; and kindergartner Lana Urbina
finished in second place for her literature
contribution. Coan also received a
National Award of Excellence in the prima
ry (K-2) category at the national level.
Sara Tricarico (not pictured), a student at
Vickery Creek Elementary School, was the
only other state winner from Forsyth
County.
Photo/Tom Brooks
after receiving information he was transporting
drugs.
Detectives with Forsyth and Dawson counties
later obtained a search warrant for Bain’s home in
the Dawson Junction neighborhood near the North
Georgia Premium Outlet Mall. Local authorities
contacted the criminal investigation division of the
U.S. Army after finding simulated explosive
devices and other military paraphernalia inside f
Bain’s home in the 200 block of Switchman Lane.
A flatbed trailer, jet ski, two tractors with
altered identification numbers and more than I
$2,600 in $1 bills were among the other items
recovered during the search.
Dawson County Det. Bill Miller said no drugs
were found inside Bain’s home and theft charges
are pending against Bain relating to some of the
See BUST, Page 4A
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County:
Big Creek
concerns
important
By Bill Johnson
Staff Writer *
District 2 Commissioner A.J.
Pritchett said Wednesday an
extremely busy schedule is the
reason anxious home owners liv
ing near the future site of a sewer
plant in Big Creek basin haven’t
heard from ——
him regard
ing forma
tion of a citi- , s
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sory group.
“I know ■
they’re get
ting anx
ious,” Prit-
clieli said mEt ■*' £
one day after
relurni"? Pritchett
from Jekyll
Island where he and other com
missioners attended the annual
meeting of the Association of
County Commissioners of Geor
gia. “But there’s been so many
other things going on. That and
the priority of things. It’s not that
it’s jiot important. It’s just that
there’s been a lot going on,” he
added.
See FOWLER, Page 4A
Subdivision
tom apart
by speed
hump fight
By Phillip Hermann
News Editor
When people choose to live
together in a large subdivision and
join their fellow neighbors in
becoming members of a home
owners’ association, sometimes
problems arise.
That’s the case right now in the
Fox Creek subdivision, where sev
eral families are waging war
against their home owners’ associ
ation to stop a plan to seek the
installation of speed humps as a
way of combating speeding
motorists who pose a safety threat.
In a new twist, the battle is not
only being waged verbally
between supporters and opponents
of the speed hump plan, it’s being
waged via the Internet on the com
munity’s Web site.
Association Vice President
Kevin J. Neel has written to resi
dents, stating the home owners’
group board of directors has start-
See SPEED, Page 4A