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FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Two arrested for old Sharon schoolhouse fire
By Alexander Popp
apopp@forsythnews.com
Two people have been arrested following
a month’s long investigation into a fire that
leveled old Sharon schoolhouse in south
Forsyth in early February of this year.
According to Division Chief Jason
Shivers, spokesman for the Forsyth County
engineering
certification
Enables school to
teach work-ready skills
By Kelly Whitmire ’
kwhitmire@forsythnews.com
Recent certification earned by a pair of
teachers at West Forsyth High School
means students in their classes will be
learning along industry standards.
West Forsyth High School teachers Dan
Biskup and Anthony Tarantino recently
earned Engineering and Technology
Education Program Certification by the
state. Tarantino said the certification
means
“If you pass the certification, basically
you are doing everything industry wants
to see in a high-school-type environment
to produce work-ready skills within high
school students,” Tarantino said.
Tarantino said the evaluation was a
lengthy process involving lots of docu
mentation and on-site visits from the
state.
“It’s an in-depth process,” he said. “It
takes probably a couple hundred hours
devoted to it, whole weekends, a lot of
nights [and] lot of early mornings. There
is a portion where the students get inter
viewed as to what they have been doing
.
‘As part of the process, schools are
given SIO,OOO to complete the process,
which West used for safety upgrades
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Hall County planning to sue opioid manufacturers
Claims ‘sky high’ drug use hurting county
By Nick Bowman
FCN regional staff
HALL COUNTY — Citing local
damage caused by the opioid epidem
ic, Hall County is hiring an Athens
law firm to sue prescription drug
manufacturers and others involved in
opioid production and distribution.
‘The Hall County Board of
Commissioners heard a proposal
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Fire Department, Nicholas Samuel Blaine a
22-year-old male from Alpharetta and
Briana Danielle Shanyfelt a 20-year-old
female from Cumming, were arrested
Friday and charged with second degree
arson.
At the time of the fire Shivers said that
engines arrived at 3594 Old Atlanta Road
around 3:30 a.m., and found the long-aban
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Greg Cloud holds a deadlift on Saturday during the first-ever Forsyth County Special Olympics Battle of the
Barbells at Cumming First United Methodist Church.
Inaugural Battle of
the Barbells held
at local church
By Kelly Whitmire
kwhitmire@forsythnews.com
Athletes from five organizations
came to Forsyth County to pump
iron this weekend.
On Saturday, Special Olympics
Forsyth County hosted the inaugu
ral Battle of the Barbells at
Cumming First United Methodist
Church. The event featured 13 ath
letes from Forsyth County, along
with visitors from the Kay Center
Tigers from Fort Valley, Abilities
Unlimited from Savannah, Douglas
County Parks and Recreation and
Henry County Parks and
Recreation.
Dana Westbrook, chair of Special
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from county attorney Bill Blalock to
hire Athens law firm Blasingame,
Burch, Garrard & Ashley to file a
civil suit in federal court.
Blalock told commissioners that
the use of opiates has risen “sky
high” since the 1990 s and that it has
been a significant drain on county
resources, from first responders help
ing an overdose patient to the work
load at local hospitals to the Hall
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Shivers said that investigators have dis
covered that on the night of Feb. 1, 2018,
Blaine and Shanyfelt were allegedly “party
to trespassing” at the old Sharon school
house and, “set fire to the building, in an
effort to create a warming fire.”
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County jail and court systems.’
The lawsuit would be filed against
more than a dozen companies, and it
likely would be handled in the multi
district litigation in Cleveland, Ohio.
The lead counsel from Blasingame,
Burch, Garrard & Ashley would be
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lawsuits filed against various compa
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