The Monroe County reporter. (Forsyth, Ga.) 1972-current, June 22, 2011, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextFREE Cookbook with NEW subscriptions! Serving the Public Safety Capital of Georgia Inside Meet the next pro golfer from Forsyth SEE PAGE 1B Summer camp energizes local kids to learning SEE PAGE 3A Deaths Ivy Doyce Knight Glynn Doster Major Dennis Ray Smith Danny Ray Walker See Page 6A WELCOME jbo £h& Marie & Ron Harvill Brad Cook Billy Dyer Dr. Jon W Barden Cynthia Dolan Dianne Spelts Wanda Coggins Dr. William Collins Susan Winters Hugh D. Sosebee Jr Get your name on this list by subscribing today. 52 issues just $35 in Monroe County. Call 994-2358 or go to www.mymcr.net. Hollywood coming to High Falls BY LAURA CORLEY It appears actor/director Billy Bob Thornton is coming to High Falls in mid-July to shoot part of his new movie, “Jayne Mansfield’s Car,” in which he is both directing and starring. Big-time actors Kevin Bacon (“Frost/Nixon”), Dennis Quaid (“The Parent Trap”), John Hurt (“Harry Potter”) and Robert Duvall (“The Godfather”) will play main roles and will reportedly accompany Thornton in See MOVIE page 3A DUVALL BACON THORNTON QUAID YOAKAM Judge Hugh Sosebee thanks well-wishers who gave him a standing ovation at the unveiling of the sign in his honor inside the Monroe County Courthouse. With him is his grandson Hugh Sosebee III, and retired Butts County clerk David Ridgeway. (Photo/Bobbie Daniels) Overpass named after bridge-builder Sosebee L ong-time judge lauded as a pillar of integrity BY RICHARD DUMAS Monroe Countians packed the Courthouse Friday for a dedica tion service commemorating the bridge over 1-75 on Tift College Drive as the Honorable Hugh D. Sosebee Bridge. Over 100 of Sosebee's family and friends were in attendance as for mer state Rep. Jim Cole officially unveiled the House Resolution 1349 by the Georgia General Assembly, which dedicated the See SOSEBEE page 7A Hickman moves to central office Search begins for new principal at Banks Stephens BY RICHARD DUMAS Banks Stephens Middle School will have a new principal next school year after Mike Hickman accepted a job with the Monroe County Schools central office Tuesday. Hickman was approved Tuesday at the Monroe County Board of Education meeting as the Assistant Superintendent for Personnel and HICKMAN Learning for Middle and High School Education. Hickman, who has worked in education for the past 18 years, mostly in Monroe County Schools, has served as principal at Banks Stephens for the past five years. "It's been a wonderful, wonder ful experience at Banks Stephens," Hickman said. "It's been the best five years of my professional career." See HICKMAN page 5A Can Monroe escape high gas price zone? Officials meet to ask why E PA punishing county for ATL’s pollution BY WILL DAVIS AND DEBBIE LURIE-SMITH If Monroe County is ever to shed its reputation for having some of the area’s highest gas prices, local officials may want to start lobbying the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for some relief. That was the outtake from a meeting of local leaders in Gray last Monday convened by State Reps. Susan Holmes and Bubber Epps. The meeting was held to discuss the federal gov ernment’s inclusion since the 1990s of rural Middle Georgia coun ties like Monroe, Jones and Jasper with a group of metro Atlanta, higher-pollution counties. Earlier this month, Monroe County got the good news that improve ments to its air quality means it is no longer in the so- called non attainment zone of counties failing to meet See GAS page 7A We are trapped into something where I don’t seethe science. - Forsyth mayor Tye Howard Counties in green, including Monroe, were added in 2003 to the original metro counties that did n’t meet air quali ty standards and therefore must use more expen sive, low-sulfur gas. The yellow ones were added in 1999. Gray counties are not in the zone. (Map courtesy/Jones County News) JOIN THE REPORTER: ON-LINE AND PRINT SUBSCRIPTION JUST $35. CALL 994-2358. «

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The Monroe County reporter. (Forsyth, Ga.) 1972-current, June 22, 2011, Image 1