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Hwy. 20 drawing car dealerships
BOC wonders if more on the way
By Kelly Whitmire
kwhitmire@forsythnews.com
The Forsyth commission
recently discussed whether the
Voting
this week
Five locations,
longer hours
By Kelly Whitmire
kwhitmire@forsythnews.com
Voter turnout increased in
Forsyth County over the second
week of advance voting for the
Nov. 4 General Election.
According to Barbara Luth, the
local supervisor of voter registra
tion and elections, more than
2,000 voters came out between
Monday and Friday, bringing the
two-week total to more than
4,000.
"It has increased almost every
day, or at least they're staying
steady,” Luth said.
While there are no local contest
ed races on the ballot, it does fea
ture several high-profile state
offices, including»governor and
Georgia school superintendent, as
well as U.S. senator and both of
the county’s congressional seats.
Also featured is a county transpor
tation bond referendum.
The average number of voters
per day has risen by about 200
people since last week, according
to Luth.
“It started in 300 s [last week],”
she said. “It’s been up to the 500 s
every day this week.”
Absentee voting has also been
steadily going up.
“We’ve mailed out 1,692 absen
tee ballots,” Luth said. “And have
received back ... 1,005, and I
think I have another 30-something
that came back in [Friday].”
On Wednesday, the local elec
tions board voted to change voting
hours for this week from 8 a.m. to
4:30 p.m. to 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
That took effect Saturday, the
same day that voting expanded
beyond the county administration
building to four other sites:
Cumming City Hall; the Hampton
Park Library; and the community
buildings at Midway and Sharon
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Students buddy-up on benches
Mashburn encourages making friends
By Kayla Robins
krobins@forsythnews.com
Making friends in school can be
an ongoing battle for students in any
grade, but one elementary school
has a new way to reach out to class
mates. All they have to do is take a
seat.
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county should steer away from
having too many car dealer
ships in one area.
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The West Forsyth High School student section was in festive form Friday
night as cross-county rival Lambert paid a visit to The Den for a key
Region 6-AAAAAA contest. For complete coverage of this game and all
the others involving local teams, see Sports 1B or go online at forsyth
news.com.
Mashburn Elementary’s two
“buddy benches” allow kids to ask
for someone to play with, even if
they are too shy to actually say so.
Students are taught to ask anyone
sitting on the bench to play or to sit
on it when they are looking for a
friend.
“I thought it really embodied the
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the recent approval of several
auto dealerships along the
Buford Highway (Hwy. 20)
corridor, east of Cumming.
“You now have three car
spirit of the school, being very
inclusive and promoting the whole
child and not just the academic
piece of learning,” said Tracey
Smith, principal.
Reasons to sit on the bench can
include being new to the school or
wanting to make friends. Also, if a
student’s friends aren’t absent that
day or if he or she wants to play
See BENCHES | 2A
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reviews
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dealerships approved all togeth
er on [the highway],” said
Commissioner Jim Boss. “I'm
trying to get a feel from the
board in advance [as to] what
degree everybody thinks this is
the right thing to do with
Highway 20. I never anticipat
ed that we would get a whole
New jail
named,
By Kayla Robins
krobins@forsythnews.com
It’s official: Forsyth County’s
new jail, which is well on its way
to completion, will be called the
Forsyth County Jail.
The building’s name, a change
from the curreni “detention center,”
was one of the details discussed
Thursday afternoon during a project
update on the jail and courthouse
construction.
The jail is on track to be com
pleted by March 5, while the court
house could beat that date by near
ly two months.
The facilities are being built
across Maple Street from each
other in downtown Cumming.
Their construction is part of a vot
er-approved, SIOO million I-cent
sales tax-funded project that also
includes two parking decks.
Ideas on how to coincide court
room tours with a combined ribbon
cutting were aired by the project
team, which consists of vital division
heads most affected by the buildings.
Those include Forsyth County
Sheriff Duane Piper and Superior
Court Chief Judge Jeffrey Bagley.
The location of the jail’s lettering
and the courthouse’s fountain,
Lady Justice statue and base, as
well as the rotunda inscription,
were all brought up.
“When we get down to this
phase of the project, we get to
some of these details,” said Doug
Derrer, the county’s manager. “But
we need to do it.”
The team approved an additional
$2,000 be proposed to the Forsyth
County commission as part of a
change order to enlarge the office
of Clerk of Courts Greg Allen.
Allen said he has more employees,
35, than anyone else in the court-
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Mashburn students, from left, Marlee
McAdam, Tyler McNew and Cindy Myers sit on
the buddy bench Thursday at the school.
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cluster of them together.
Lou Sobh Honda opened in
late 2013 on the highway near
Sanders Road. In September,
work began on a Lou Sobh Kia
next door. Earlier this month,
the commission approved the
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