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BY WILL DAVIS
Plans to put two roundabouts on
Hwy. 87 in Monroe County appear
to have been killed.
The state DOT released a list of
$500 million worth of projects last
week and the roundabout projects
at Hwy. 87 and Hwy. 18 and Hwy.
87 and Hwy. 83 have both been
removed from the list.
State Rep. Susan Holmes (R-
Monticello) told the Reporter on
Friday that she hopes they are
dead.
"I was down at Bowdoin’s store
(Hwy. 87 in Juliette) yesterday
and I said, ’guys, I think the
roundabouts are off the books,’
and they just clapped," said
Holmes.
The federal government has
been pushing the roundabouts,
circular traffic intersections such
as the one recently added at Hwy.
74 and Hwy. 341 in Culloden, The
roundabouts are popular in
See ROUNDABOUTS pg 7A
Fire, election upsets
January
Jan. 4
Culloden store
robbed
Three employees and
two customers are pres
ent when the Market
Place store on Hwy. 74
in Culloden is robbed at
gunpoint. The employ
ees tell Monroe County
sheriffs deputies that
the three suspects were
dressed in black or
dark clothing with ski
masks covering their
faces and said the sus
pects forced them to
empty their pockets on
the floor of the store's
See 2012 page 10A
Top 10 stories of year 2012
1. Grits Cafe fire
2. Mike Bilderback stuns
chairman Vaughn
3. Reporter story on Rev.
Joseph Lowery’s race re
marks make national news
4. Monroe County consoli
dates middle schools despite
concerns
5. Plant Scherer fends off ac
cusations it’s making neigh
bors sick
6. MP football makes its
deepest run in the playoffs
since 1998 under new coach
Brian Nelson
7. A former principal and
county finance director plead
guilty to stealing from taxpay
ers.
8. Animal Medical Clinic,
Castleberry Drug, Lawson
and Cromer and Atkinson’s
Auto are sold.
9 Childhood tragedy: A Cullo
den girl dies in a shooting ac
cident and a Forsyth teen in
an ATV accident.
10. Expensive mistake: Local
governments reel after learn
ing they must pay back $4
million in Plant Scherer sales
tax revenues due to an ac
counting mistake.
Bilderback sworn in
Incoming Monroe County commission chairman Mike
Bilderback was sworn in Friday morning (left) even though
he won’t begin official duties until Jan. 1. Probate judge
Karen Pitman officiated the event, which included Bilder-
back’s family and supporters James Green, Jim Mickle
and J.D. Chapman. Pictured above from left to right:
Green, Nancy Childs (aunt), Opal Edwards (grandmother),
J.D. Bilderback (father), Sandra Scarborough (mother),
Bilderback and Maves Culp (grandmother).
(Photos/Richard Dumas)
Cheap gas
in Forsyth?
But $2.99 at Circle Kdoesn’t last
Forsythians have long complained of uni
formly higher gas prices in town, but the
complaints subsided last week when the
Circle K store on N. Lee Street dropped its
price to $2.99 per gallon for regular unleaded,
18 cents less than most surrounding stations.
"I was headed to another gas station when I
saw this and backed up," said Denise Grier of
Forsyth, who was filling up in the cold on
Friday, Dec. 21.
"I was shocked," said William Bishop, a
DeKalb County man who was driving south
on 1-75 to Savannah when he stopped to get
gas. Bishop said he was also on his way to a
different station when he did a double take.
"I saw this sign for $2.99 and said 'what the
h— is this?!?" laughed Bishop. "I hope this
gets me to Savannah and back."
Store clerk Davisian Grant said the store is
corporate owned and they got the word on
Tuesday to lower prices to $2.99. Since then,
said Grant, they've been slammed.
While Bishop was glad for the low prices, he
also brought a little perspective.
"Isn't it ridiculous," said Bishop, "that we're
sitting here championing $2.99 gas? When I
was in college I had a VW van and could fill
up the whole thing for $2.99!"
The national average on Friday was said to
be $3.28 a gallon, the lowest levels of 2012.
But by Sunday, the Circle K was back up to
$3.39 per gallon, and was no longer the
cheapest in town.
William Bishop said he was “shocked” to see
$2.99 gas at the Circle K in Forsyth on Friday.
Early deadlines
for New Year’s
The Monroe County Reporter will have
early deadlines due to the New Year's holi
day.
For the Jan. 2 edition, news and advertis
ing is due by
5 p.m. on
Thursday,
Dec. 27. The
paper will be
printed on
Sunday and in-county subscribers and
stores should receive their Reporters on
Monday, Dec. 31.
The Reporter staff and management
would like to thank its readers and adver
tisers for their loyalty and support in 2012.
We wish you all a Happy New Year in 2013.
