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June 22, 2016
Laura Corley honored as
an emerging journalist
Former Monroe County
Reporter intern and
Forsyth native Laura
Corley was given the
Emerging Journalist
Award at the Georgia
Press Association’s annual
convention on June 3.
Though she’s only been
out of college a year, Ron
Daniel, her editor at the
Douglas County Sentinel
of Douglasville, said of
her: “Laura is one of the
finest journalists I have
ever worked with and our
profession is fortunate to
have her.”
The 22-year-old Corley
won the award for the
weekly newspaper divi
sion.
Daniel, who nominated
her, said: “She was always
willing to do whatever
was necessary to give our
readers the story nobody
else had, often finding a
home address of a subject,
knocking on their door
and getting an interview
she wouldn’t have gotten
if she had just sat at her
desk making phone calls.”
Corley, who now works
for the Macon Telegraph,
handled each and every
assignment she had with
the Sentinel with the
determination, profes
sionalism and instincts of
a seasoned, experienced
journalist, said Daniel.
Take the time, just three
weeks into the job, when
she tracked down a con
venience store clerk who
was shot in a county out
side the paper’s coverage
area, went to the victim’s
home and got an interview
where he described his
experience to her.
Or the time when — a
week after a murder-sui
cide in the community left
five dead — she reached
out to top psychological
experts in the country
about why people who
commit suicide often
decide to kill family mem
bers before taking their
own lives. “This story may
be the best story Laura
wrote for the Sentinel in
2015,”
Daniel
said.
There
was also
the time
when she
called
out the
local
BOE for
violat
ing the
Georgia
Open
Meetings
Act by
voting
on per
sonnel
actions
without
identify-
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Forsyth native Laura Corley, left, was pre
sented the Emerging Journalist award by
Macon Telegraph publisher Don Bailey at
the Georgia Press Association annual con
vention in early June. (Photo/Will Davis)
producing the names of
people to comply with
state law.
Corley is the daughter
of Keith and Becky Corley
of Forsyth. Her father is
the former Forsyth police
chief while her mother is
the former chairman of
the Hospital Authority of
Monroe County.
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ing the individuals being
hired or promoted. In
this story, a press attor
ney confirmed Corley’s
suspicion that the way
the board voted to hire
employees didn’t com
ply with the law, Daniel
said. After this story ran,
the school board began
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Forsyth woman gets DUI
with four-year-old in car
‘I just wanna go home’ - Mallory Walker
BY RICHARD DUMAS
forsyth@myincr.net
A Forsyth woman was charged with
DUI and endangering a child while
DUI after she struck one vehicle
and nearly hit several others on
Clifton Drive on June 16.
Mallory Ginaille Walker, 25,
was also charged with reckless
driving, driving while license
suspended, leaving the scene of
an accident and failure to main
tain lane.
According to the incident-
report, at about 7:28 p.m.
on June 16, Officer Tellas
Daniels of the Forsyth
Police Department was
notified by dispatchers
of a reckless driver,
later identified as
Walker, in the area
of Frontage Road and
Oak Ridge Drive.
Daniels found the
driver’s vehicle
at a Clifton Drive
home. A woman,
identified as Mary
Legault-, said her
friend, Walker, was driving her car and
had jumped out and run from Daniels.
Daniels asked Legault why Walker had
run from him, and she answered that
Walker was having a bad day and had
just- gotten into an argument- with her boy
friend. Daniels then spotted Walker looking
Mallory Walker was apparently wearing a bi
kini at the time of her arrest. (Mugshot cour
tesy of the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office)
over a fence and began walking toward her.
Walker then took off running again, but-
Daniels caught- her climbing a fence in the
backyard. Daniels told Walker to put-
her hands up and get- on the ground,
and she complied.
Walker smelled strongly of alco
hol and seemed confused. She
told Daniels she lived nearby and
wanted to go home. Sgt. Teldric
Middlebrooks of the Forsyth
Police Department- then hand
cuffed Walker and put- her in
his patrol car.
Monroe County
Sheriff’s Inv. Ronnie
Evans first- witnessed
Walker’s erratic driv
ing on Hwy. 42 North.
He said Walker ran
off the road several
times and almost-
hit- other vehicles as
well. Another wit
ness, Michael Ivey,
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hit- head-on by
Walker’s vehicle
and said he had
to move into the
other lane to avoid being struck. Evans
added that- as Walker pulled into the drive
way, she hit a black Toyota Tacoma pickup
truck, which was parked in the yard, before
she got- out- and ran.
Walker was then taken to the Monroe
County Jail.
The mayor of Forsyth, and Eric Wilson
The mayor
of Forsyth
met- with Eric
Wilson on
Monday t-o
discuss ways
to improve the
cit-y. No t-hat-’s
not- a mis
print-. Eddie
Coleman is
the mayor
of Forsyth,
Missouri and
he stopped in
Forsyth, Ga.
on Monday
for a sum
mit- of sorts
between him
and Wilson,
the respective
mayors of the
sister cities.
Coleman
said he did an
Google search for all cities
called Forsyth in the U.S.
and he found three others
besides his own. There’s
also a Forsyth in Illinois
and Montana. Coleman
said he plans t-o visit- all of
them but his first was to
Forsyth, Ga. as he’s on his
way t-o Virginia to see a
great- grandson graduate.
Coleman said Forsyth, Mo.
has about- 2,800 citizens, a
lit-t-le smaller than Forsyth,
moved t-o higher elevation
and no longer has a town
square.
Wilson said he plans t-o
reciprocate Coleman’s visit-
wit-h a trip to Missouri
sometime.
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