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^ Save up to $971 « i A* COUPONS INSIDE 1 Gainesville Police Department offers v v F • 4 vJsk BUS Firearms Safety Course, our region, ic 1 ehc (Times SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11,2018 | $2.00 | GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA | gainesvilletimes.com No. 5 Georgia knocks off Auburn in Athens, 27-10. sports, ib 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. Inside ■ Editorial: Say Thank you today, 2D ■ World War ll-era veteran a fixture for students at Maranatha Christian Academy, 1E ■ Blackwood: Today we should offer thanks to all who have worn the uniform, 1E 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 ■ Please see WAR, 5A 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 ■ Please see JAIL, 4A Couch INSIDE WEATHER 2A DEATHS 2C 0 901 06825 Advice 2E Business 1D Calendar 2A Classified 1F Comics Inside Kitchen 2C Life 1E Lottery 2A Opinion 2D Our Region 1C Sports 1B Viewpoint 3D High Low 51 39 Lake Lanier level: 1,069.56 feet Full pool 1,071. Up 0.14 feet in 24 hours Ann Glass Ragle Haynes, 67 Jack Queen, 78 Luther Weaver William Wilbanks, 81 Myrinia Barnett
