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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11,2018 | $2.00 | GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA | gainesvilletimes.com
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Honestly Local
New rules will shape midtown
Efforts part of city’s vision for area as a place of rebirth, new business center
BY MEGAN REED
mreed@gainesvilletimes.com
Midtown Gainesville is going
through some changes.
On Oct. 16, the Gainesville
City Council voted to buy the
land on the southern end of the
pedestrian bridge over Jesse
Jewell Parkway for $10 mil
lion, with the hopes of reselling
it to a developer so the so-called
“bridge to nowhere” will have
a purpose. The city is also work
ing on recruiting a developer to
bring life to the old Hall County
Jail site on Main Street.
Proposed trails would wind
through midtown to make the
area more pedestrian-friendly.
Plans for a skate park at the
intersection of Pine and High
Streets would also provide rec
reation opportunities.
And on Tuesday, the City
Council approved an ordinance
banning 31 uses in the city’s
Midtown Overlay Zone, includ
ing homeless shelters, crisis
centers, coin laundry facili
ties and pawn shops. Existing
■ Please see MIDTOWN, 4A
Bradford Street is near the
southern end of Gainesville’s
midtown area. Gainesville
just banned more than 30
uses, including homeless
shelters and crisis centers,
in its midtown area although
existing ones are allowed
to stay.
SCOTT ROGERS
The Times
Gainesville commemorates end of
Hall jail
once ‘greatest struggle ever known’
Photo courtesy NORTHEAST GEORGIA HISTORY CENTER I For The Times
World War I soldiers are seen in a photograph in the Northeast Georgia History Center collection.
Planned area events mark end of World War I 100 years ago
BY JEFF GILL
jgill@gainesvilletimes.com
The first sentence in the Nov. 13,1918, article in
the local newspaper, the Gainesville News, read
simply, “The war is over.”
And so it was 100 years ago today.
Battlefields fell silent in what was described at
the time as the “the war to end all wars,” which
drew American involvement only in its final, bru
tal year.
Hall County lost 29 men in the war, which began
in 1914 when Austria-Hungary declared war on
Serbia. It ended with Germany’s surrender, and
the formal agreement to stop fighting came on
Nov. 11,1918.
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The day would be celebrated as Armistice
Day and later as Veterans Day, which is being
observed in several area events, including cere
monies Monday, Nov. 12, at Rock Creek Veterans
Park and Lakewood Baptist Church in Gainesville.
“Peace and rejoicing forever,” the Gaines
ville News declared. “Kaiserism banished from
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World War I’s
100th anniversary
What: Northeast Georgia
History Center’s Family Day
Featured: living history
demonstrations, hands-on
activities, gallery tours
and performances
commemorating the end
of World War I on Nov. 11,
1918.
When: 1-4 p.m. Sunday,
Nov. 11
Where: History Center, 322
Academy St.
Admission: free
reassessing
contracts
for housing
BY NICK WATSON
nwatson@gainesvilletimes.com
On any given day at the bottom of the
Barber Road hill, Hall County Sheriff
Gerald Couch is liable for a population
the size of a small town.
As of Oct. 30, the Hall County Jail had
766 inmates, though that number was
near 1,000 people earlier this year.
With hiked insurance costs, larger
salaries and a doubled medical staff,
the cost of housing an inmate spiked
over the past decade. Some of those
costs are reimbursed by other agencies
that use the jail to house inmates, but
the fees don’t cover
the true expense.
“With the feds or
any of the cities that
pay the daily fees, none
of that makes us whole.
It’s one of those duties
you have to perform
and it’s a service. It’s
not a money-making
venture,” Couch said.
The sheriff and his staff are now look
ing at how they could get compensated
closer to the true costs of housing an
inmate at the facility.
Hall, Gwinnett, Cobb, Bartow, Floyd
and Whitfield counties are members
of the 287(g) program, a partnership
between local and federal agencies to
identify undocumented immigrants for
possible removal. Bartow and Floyd
counties as well as the Georgia Depart
ment of Corrections signed agreements
in 2018.
As of Oct. 1, Capt. Jeff Shoemaker
said the jail is no longer housing undocu
mented immigrants through the 287(g)
program for more than 48 hours past
the posting of bond.
“Within 48 hours upon that person
making bond or whatever if there’s an
immigration hold ... the immigration
bus, for lack of better words, comes and
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