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TOAHOT 5 OFF TART/4A Tuesday, August 17,2021 barnesville.com Barnesville, Ga. 30204 HERE’S THE SCOOP Rev. Ogletree memorialized Bernard Ogletree me morializes his brother Craig during funeral services at the FAC Saturday. Bernard wore Craig’s Bengals jersey. SEE OBITUARY 5A THILENIUS Sinor, Thilenius will sign books at Depot Saturday SEE PAGE 2A Subscribe. Your name goes on the label in this box Man who shot deputy to plead guilty Thursday WALTER GEIGER news@barnesville.com A 39-year-old Milner man who allegedly ambushed a Lamar deputy Aug. 8, 2020 is expected to enter blind guilty pleas to all charges he faces in Lamar superior court Thurs day. District attorney Jonathan Adams reported Donald Chan dler Gordy will plea with no agreed upon sentence or plea deal in place. Dep. Justyn Weaver an swered a suspicious person call in the 100 block of Moore Street in Milner at 10:45 p.m. He had been up and down the street several times when Gordy alleg edly popped up out of the woods and opened fire with a shotgun, discharg ing five rounds of #4 turkey shot at Weaver’s patrol car at close range. Weaver was lifeflighted to a trauma center. He was re leased five days later and has since returned to duty. Gordy fled the shooting scene but was apprehended about 3 a.m., Aug. 9, 2020 near Birmingham. He is charged with aggravated as sault on a peace officer, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, attempt ing to kill or obstruct a witness from providing testimony or evidence, three counts interfer ence with government property and criminal damage to property Gordy had been arrested the previous year for posses sion of meth and fighting with deputies. That incident did not involve Weaver. GORDY THE HERALD GAZETTE/WALTER GEIGER Holmes Street drug raid nabs two Sgt. Jeremy Haire leads Haley Marie McNaughton, 21, to a patrol car following a raid on a drug house at 150 Holmes Street in Barnesville Aug. 13. McNaughton was charged with possession of a Schedule II controlled sub stance and first degree cruelty to children for failure to provide sustenance for a small child in the home. See story, page 3A. COVID spike continues WALTER GEIGER news@barnesville.com COV1D-19 cases, driven by the Delta variant, continued to surge in Lamar County last week. The latest figures from the Department of Public Health available at press time were tallied at 3 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 13. At that point, Lamar had recorded 1,611 cases, 141 hospitalizations and 48 deaths. Lamar is one of a handful of Georgia counties where cases are growing the fastest. Over the two week period ending Fri day, Lamar had a positive case rate of 946 cases per 100,000 in population which pushed it into Code Red territory. SEE COVID 2A Hearing on racetrack near Milner is tonight The Lamar County commis sion will hold a public hearing tonight at 6:30 p.m. on a special exception sought by Randolph (Rudy) Vaughn who desires to locate a horse racing track and event center on land he owns near Milner. The address of the proposed site is 276 Old Alabama Rd. Vaughn wants an exception to operate Ole Rudy’s Equine Training and Recreation under an exemption for concentrated outdoor commercial zoning. Vaughn is a convicted felon. He was convicted here in 2007 on three counts theft by receiv ing stolen property and one count of theft of services in connection with a commercial cargo theft ring. He was sen tenced to 10 years in prison, 10 years probation, fined $100,000 and had to surrender his res taurant building in downtown Milner to the county which it sold. That building, which now houses Tim’s Lighthouse, is once again embroiled in SEE RACETRACK 2A Battle of Potato Creek: Trojans begin Ellington era at Pike County Friday WALTER GEIGER news@barnesville.com The Lamar County Trojans open the regular season Friday night when they travel to Zebulon to take on the Pike County Pirates in the Battle of Potato Creek. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. The game will be the first under new head coach Travis El lington. It will also be Ellington’s first game as a head coach after a long career as an assistant. Ellington is LC’s fifth head coach over the eight-year period since the Trojans appeared in the state title game in 2013. On the other sideline, coaching stability will be in place. Pirate head coach Brad Webber is beginning his 11th sea son. He has an overall record of 47-59 and is 1-7 vs. Lamar. Over the course of the border rivalry, Lamar holds a 27-8 record. Ellington shrugged off questions about his first game as the top man on the sidelines, concentrating on “We’ve seen a lot of good things on film and we’ve also seen some things we can fix moving forward. We’ve had good effort. Pike has a good squad and they will be ready to play. We will be glad to have our injured players back. We will con tinue to work on us and we will be ready to play Friday night,” Ellington said. his team. Lamar’s CJ Allen breaks loose on a long touchdown run during a preseason scrim mage with Manchester which was called back on a penalty. Allen and his teammates will battle Pike County in a border war game Friday night in Zebulon. ©2021 THE HERALD GAZETTE, BARNESVILLE, LAMAR COUNTY, GA 30204, 770.358.NEWS