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www.mymcr.net • VOL. 43 NO. 44 • USPS 997-840
5 sections, 52 pages • Forsyth, GA • Wednesday, October 29, 2014 • $1
Inside
Trick or
treat on the
Square Fri.
See page 5C
Dawgs up
to No. 8
in state
See page 1B
New: Mug
shots added
to public
record page
See page 8C
Deaths
Shirley Marks
See Page 6A
Walmart, Dollar General
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Kroger and CVS
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Feds to remove Juliette dam?
Federal officials have ordered the company that
operates the Juliette dam to cease.
will stand up and fight.’ - Robert Williams of Juliette
This whole town
BY WILL DAVIS
publisher@mymcr.net
A federal government
out of control trying to
bankrupt a small power
company and perhaps
remove Juliette's historic
dam on the Ocmulgee
River.
That's how locals are
characterizing the
Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission's
(FERC) order that
Eastern Hydroelectric
Corp. permanently dis
able its powerhouse at the
dam for refusing to build
a $600,000 fish ladder for
migrating shad.
"The federal govern
ment has gotten out of
control," said long-time
Juliette resident and
property owner Robert
Williams. "I'm totally
against them removing
that dam. This whole
town will stand up and
fight this one. It's ridicu
lous. It could really hurt
See DAM page 6A
Nancy McComb, left, and Ann Rose Bowcock, right, are opening High Cotton-Uptown Sat.
New gift, antique store has
Forsyth in High Cotton
BY WILL DAVIS
publisher@mymcr.net
Ann Rose Bowcock and Nancy
McComb only met two years
ago, but their friendship has
already brought Forsyth a new
business, High Cotton, that will
open its second location in one of
the city's most interesting build
ings on Saturday.
High Cotton came about, said
Ann Rose, because she met a
woman named Nancy McComb
in the parking lot of her church,
Rock Springs Church in Milner.
Ann Rose knew McComb's hus
band Scott and he had assured
her that she needed to meet his
wife because they had so much
in common. McComb did estate
sales and had an antique store.
Ann Rose would need her sooner
than she knew. The Bowcocks
were selling a home in Hilton
see COTTON page 6A
Bowcock is county’s
Businesswoman of Year
BY WILL DAVIS
publisher@mymcr.net
Ann Rose Bowcock,
owner of High Cotton
Antiques and Design
Networks, has been
named Monroe
County's
Businesswoman of the
Year for 2014.
Ann Rose has not
only owned her own
interior design business
for 35 years, but she
launched her own gift
and antique store in
Forsyth, High Cotton,
this year. The
Reporter names a
Businesswoman of the
Year each October
because it is Women in
Business Month.
She was nominated
by her husband, Dr.
Jack Bowcock.
"She is first and most
important a Christian
woman who puts God
first in her life before
everything else," wrote
Bowcock. "She is an
amazing, caring and
loving wife, mother and
grandmother of 7 pre
cious grandchildren.
see WOMAN page 6A
City cuts
taxes by
37 percent
BY DIANE GLIDEWELL
news@mymcr.net
Forsyth council voted to keep its promise to
lower city taxes on Oct. 16 reducing the mill-
age rate from 5.6 to 3.5. Council members
Mike Dodd, Greg Goolsby, Jimmy Jones, and
Melvin Lawrence voted for the 3.5 millage;
Julius Stroud and Eric Wilson were absent
from the meeting. By lifting some of the tax
burden off of property owners, council com
mitted to finding other ways to make up the
estimated $215,467 in tax revenue they are
giving up. As reported in the Oct. 15
Reporter, one way the city is considering gen
erating revenue is an increase in utility rates.
That will be decided later this year.
No one from the public attended the public
hearing on the 2014 millage rate at 9 a.m. on
Thursday. Interim city administrator Janice
Hall told council that the county, which
includes city taxes in its billing, was ready to
send out tax bills as soon as the city set its
millage and needed to have bills generated
that day or the following one. The county and
school board have set millage and bills have
to be sent as soon as possible to make pay
ment deadline by the end of the year.
Dodd moved to set the millage at 2.8, which
would have been half of the 2013 millage.
Mayor John Howard said he and Hall have
not gone over the 2015 budget yet, so he did
not have a good idea of the impact less prop
erty taxes will have on the budget. Jones,
Goolsby and Howard said the city should be
able to support itself as a business, with the
sale of electricity, water and sewer service
supporting the respective departments and
privatized garbage and cable supporting
themselves.
"If you do this, when Janice [Hall] and I
come back with what the experts say about
the budget, you guys can't get squeamish,"
said Howard.
"Whether you take it from the right hand or
the left hand, you had a million dollar
deficit," said Charles Grinstead, the city's
financial consultant.
Jones said he felt that as residents of the
county, city residents are already paying
property tax and should not have to pay
twice. Grinstead said that years ago the idea
was to spend city taxes on amenities like
parks that would increase the quality of life
but that over the years the funds had begun
See TAXES page 4A
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