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Prepare to vote: Debate is Thursday
What’s more American
than free hamburgers and
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why organizers 0 f)
are expecting a
cookout gets under way at
5:30 p.m. and the debate
at 7 p.m. The Monroe
County Reporter
and Forsyth-
Monroe County
Chamber of
Commerce are
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good turnout for the
Monroe County political
forum at the board of edu
cation auditorium
Thursday, Oct. 16. The
chamber of commerce
co-hosting the debate less
than three weeks before
election day Nov. 4.
Those in attendance will
have the opportunity to
ask questions of the candi
dates. Residents have one
more day to submit ques
tions beforehand to
publisher@mymcr.net, or
mail to PO Box 795,
Forsyth, GA 31029. These
are the candidates invited
and almost all have said
they plan to attend:
Congress
*Jim Marshall - D
Rick Goddard - R
Board of
Commissioners:
Chairman
*Harold Carlisle - R
James Vaughn - D
District 2
*Jim Ham - D
Charles Hampton - R
District 1
*Larry Evans - D
Bill Myers - R
Board of Education
(non-partisan):
District 4
Sonya Williams
Judy Pettigrew
Robert Lee Watson
District 6
* Tammy Fletcher
Clete Sanders
Magistrate Judge
*Jeff Davis - R
Mark Goolsby - D
Tax Commissioner
Barbara Baswell - R
Lori Andrews - D
District attorney
*Richard Milam - R
Karen Martin - D
*- incumbent
Touchdown, Jaguars!
Teammates congratulate Jaguar Jaboree Goodson (8) on his first touchdown of the season Satur
day. Jaboree scored in the final seconds of the game against the Bulldogs. However, the Bulldogs
won by a score of 12-7. For more rec football photos, scores and upcoming games, see page 4C.
(Photo/Gina Herring)
That dog won’t hunt...
County backpedals on animal shelter location
BY LAURA THACKSTON
In the face of a public outcry Monroe
County commissioners have postponed
plans to build an animal shelter at the
recreation department and have set a
public hearing for 6 p.m. on Tuesday,
Nov. 18 to discuss the shelter location.
The hearing will take place at the
Monroe County Recreation Department
gym and is open to all residents.
The decision came after many residents
showed up at the commissioners’ meet
ing on Tuesday, Oct. 7 to voice their
opposition to the proposed location.
Jimmy Jones, the parent and coach
who organized the opposition, presented
See SHELTER page 7A
Adios, trees
Crews from Four Seasons Tree Service
cut down two old pecan trees and a
magnolia on the courthouse square on
Saturday. The courthouse renovations
committee, led by commissioner Larry
Evans, and county commissioners had
agreed the trees were in poor shape
and needed to come down. A sprinkler
system has been installed and new
landscaping and new trees, as tall as
30 feet officials say, will be installed.
Vaughn
has big
money
lead
Challenger James Vaughn has a 2-to-l financial
advantage over incumbent Harold Carlisle in the race
for county commission chairman as
the race heads into the homestretch.
That’s according to campaign
financial disclosure reports filed
with election superintendent Karen
Pitman last week.
Vaughn, a local attorney and
farmer, reported raising $19,733 for
his campaign over the past three
months, $10,720 of it in amounts of
more than $101. Meanwhile,
Carlisle, a retired National Guard
officer and businessman, had raised
$9,350 as of the Oct. 5 filing dead
line.
A Democrat, Vaughn listed 30 con
tributors, including Atlanta banker
Joe Evans ($1,000), bank owner Karl
Hill ($1,000), Theodore Redding
($1,000), Southern Timber ($600),
bank president Bill Bazemore
($500), A.L. Dungan and Son ($500),
F Tredway Shurling ($500), Mary
Aiken Wright ($500) Harold Hendrick
($400) and Richard Maddux ($300).
Gene Maddux, former mayor Jimmy Pace, consultant
Dr. Bill Cummings, gift shop owner Mark Stevens,
See MONEY page 7A
VAUGHN
CARLISLE
Monroe fires
headmaster
Monroe Academy has fired its headmaster Sid
Kennedy after he’d been on the job
just three months, with board mem
bers saying there was simply a differ
ence in philosophy.
Jim Collins, chairman of MA's board
of directors, said the board decided it
was best to change leadership because
of the "ongoing difference in philoso
phy about how to implement and
enforce the vision" for the school. The
board has appointed a committee of
teachers and board members to run the
school for the rest of the year. MA parent Betsy
Krepps will serve as the administrative head, and
football coach and assistant headmaster Dennard
Scoggins will also help. Scoggins was an assistant
principal at Central High in Macon before joining MA.
See MONROE page 7A