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The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com
LOCA^NATION
Provided by Habersham County
A fire at 1 a.m. Friday, June 23, on Sherwood Drive in
Clarkesville destroyed the home.
ClarkesviUe home
destroyed by fire
BY NICK WATSON
nwatson@
Gainesvilletimes.com
A fire destroyed a Clarkes
ville home overnight Friday,
June 23, as the flames were
visible for more than a mile,
according to authorities.
Firefighters responded
around 1 a.m. Friday to a
2,500-square-foot home on
Sherwood Drive.
The fire crews worked
for more than three hours to
extinguish the blaze.
The homeowner made it
out unscathed but lost all of
his possessions, Habersham
County spokesman Rob
Moore said.
No injuries were reported,
and the cause of the fire is
under investigation.
Family of actor
Julian Sands
releases first
statement since
disappearance
SAN BERNARDINO,
Calif. — The family of
actor Julian Sands has
released its first state
ment five months after he
disappeared while hiking
in California.
“We continue to hold
Julian in our hearts with
bright memories of him
as a wonderful father,
husband, explorer, lover
of the natural world and
the arts, and as an origi
nal and collaborative per
former,” the statement
said.
Sands, the 65-year-old
British-born actor best
known for his role in the
1985 film “A Room With
a View,” has been mar
ried for more than three
decades to journalist
Evgenia Citkowitz, and
has three adult children.
They said they were
“deeply grateful to the
search teams and coordi
nators who have worked
tirelessly to find Julian.”
Associated Press
Georgia congressman fights
speed restrictions for whales
BY RUSS BYNUM
Associated Press
SAVANNAH — A Geor
gia congressman moved
Friday to stop a federal
agency from imposing new
speed restrictions on boats
and ships in order to pro
tect critically endangered
whales.
The National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Admin
istration proposed a year
ago to broaden the geo
graphical area of its sea
sonal speed restrictions
along the U.S. East Coast
and expand the types of
vessels required to slow
down. The rule change is
intended to protect North
Atlantic right whales, a
species that scientists say
is perilously near extinc
tion with a dwindling popu
lation of less than 340.
U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter,
a Republican whose dis
trict includes Georgia’s
100-mile coast, introduced
a bill Friday that would
MICHAEL DWYER I Associated Press
A North Atlantic right whale feeds on the surface of Cape
Cod bay off the coast of Plymouth, Mass., on March 28,
2018.
prohibit NOAA from
spending federal dollars to
implement the rule change
until its parent agency, the
Department of Commerce,
develops and deploys new
technology to monitor
Atlantic waters for right
whales.
Carter said the enhanced
slowdown rules would be
restrictive enough to cause
charter fishing boats to
quit the business and to dis
rupt the efficiency of busy
seaports like the Port of
Savannah.
“We care about the
whales too,” Carter said in
phone interview. “We want
to protect them, but not at
the expense of destroying
our commercial fishing
and slowing down our port
traffic to the point where
it has an enormous impact
on our economy.”
Carter’s proposal comes
less than three weeks
after a House subcommit
tee heard testimony from
supporters and opponents
of the expanded speed
restrictions.
Scientists say being
struck by vessels and
entanglement in fishing
gear are the two biggest
threats to right whales,
which are dying faster
than they are reproducing.
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