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Festival draws crowds, fun on opening day
By Isabel Hughes
ihughes@forsythnews.com
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Man charged with murder for
shooting former roommate
By Kayla Robins
krobins@forsythnews.com
A Cumming man has been charged
with murder after the man he is accused
of shooting in the chest Thursday after
noon on Memphis Street succumbed to
his injuries.
Christopher Puckett, 31, was arrested
Oct. 6 for felony murder and aggravated
assault and booked into the Forsyth
County Jail without bond, according to
Cpl. Pete Saballa, a spokesman for the
Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office.
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We take readers back
in time with the annual
Cumming Country
Fair & Festival, local
elections and schools.
: Presented by
Gracemont Senior Living
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filled the Cumming Fairgrounds with a meaty
aroma.
Families walked hand-in-hand, with screams
echoing from the whoosh of the rides.
See FAIR | 3A
By Kayla Robins
krobins@forsythnews.com
Every third person, most dressed
in purple, stood at their table
Thursday. Totaling about two per
table, Shandra Dawkins, executive
director of Forsyth County Family
Haven, said they represented the
ratio of women in the United States
who will experience domestic vio-
Puckett reportedly
shot his former room
mate, Jimmy Hendrix,
52, once in the chest
during an argument just
before 5 p.m.
Drugs and alcohol are
not thought to be factors
in the incident, Saballa
said.
Puckett
Hendrix was transported to an area
hospital after deputies arrived at the
5400 block of Memphis Street, which is
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lence in her lifetime.
The crowd had just heard testimo
nies from two women about their
survival through domestic violence,
though they explained that at times
they went so low they became
addicted to drugs as a coping mech
anism or they thought they may be
better off dead, just like her husband
said.
See HOPE | 4A
Schools officials: Return to normalcy after
educator fired over racists comments
By Kayla Robins
krobins@forsythnews.com
About a week after a national spot
light was put on Forsyth County amid
an educator from Chestatee
Elementary being fired over racist
posts she made on Facebook about
First Lady Michelle Obama and other
anti-minority comments, students and
teachers are not letting it affect their
learning.
Jane Wood Allen, a parapro at the
Title-I school in north Forsyth, was
relieved Monday, Oct. 3 of her duties
for the school system after it came to
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Children are exposed to
family violence involving
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801
Reported incidents in
Forsyth County in 2014
Cost for one day of shelter and
food for one at Family Haven
993
Women and their children
served by Family Haven in 2014
5
Women or their family members
killed by an intimate partner in
Forsyth County in 2015
Georgia ranks Bth in the nation in the
rate of women murdered by men
*Source: Forsyth County Family Haven
a letter was sent home with students
that day,” said Jennifer Caracciolo,
Forsyth County School spokeswoman.
Because the incident is related to
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light she had been
calling the first lady a
gorilla on articles she
shared about her.
“Prior to us sharing
the news on the
Chestatee website and
social media, Polly
Tennis, the principal,
informed the staff, and
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