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August 19, 2019
Established in 1972
Vol 47 Issue 33
New year, new Burroughs - Molette
While the new Burroughs Molette Elementary School (above) opened this past February, since
the old school had not been removed, the parking lot and playground could not finished until that
happened. This year the entire project is finished and students started off the new school year
in the new Burroughs Molette. Fifty plus years ago when the original building opened it was two
schools: Viola Burroughs Elementary and Sarah Molette Junior High. The school also served as
the school system’s seventh-grade center and then an elementary school. The FACES and Leaps
and Bounds preschool programs were added later as well and remain at the school today. The
building of the new Burroughs Molette was funded with ESPLOST 3 and budgeted at $28 million.
Islander Staff Photo - Permar
Board of Elections discusses possible
new polling locations
City, county
file opposition
to Terry Creek
Consent Decree
By Pamela Permar
Shierling
Last Thursday the City of
Brunswick and Glynn County
jointly filed two amici cur
iae briefs in opposition to the
consent decree recently filed
in Federal Court by the U.S.
Dept, of Justice and Hercules
Inc.
One brief asks permission
to file the amici curiae brief
since Brunswick and Glynn
County have special interests
that are not represented in
this case, and one brief was
filed in opposition to the Con
sent Decree.
An amicus curiae is some
one who is not a party to a
case, may or may not have
been solicited by a party, and
who assists a court by offer
ing information, expertise, or
insight that has a bearing on
the issues in the case.
The City and County are not
parties to the filing of the Con
sent Decree but are extremely
affected by the Decree.
The City and County briefs
were filed in response to docu
ments filed August 1 in the
U.S. Southern District Court
by the Dept, of Justice and
Hercules asking that the Con
sent Decree (CD) filed in May
2018 by the federal Environ
mental Protection Agency
(EPA) and Hercules detail
ing the clean up of the Terry
Creek outfall ditch or Oper
able Unit 1 (OU1) be accepted
by the court.
One of the points in the
joint City / County opposi
tion brief was that the EPA
proposed an Interim remedy
(IROD) to OU1 rather than a
final one, because it did not
have sufficient knowledge
regarding the toxicity of de
graded or “weathered” toxa-
phene to make a final decision
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Terry Creek
The Glynn County Board of
Elections (BOE) is looking to
move polling locations out of
schools whenever possible for
safety reasons and to use pub
lic buildings where possible.
This is apparently a state
priority. It is also important to
keep the polling location with
in the precinct.
Last Tuesday (August 13)
during the BOE regular meet
ing the school locations up for
immediate change consider
ation were Burroughs-Molette
Elementary, Satilla Marsh
Elementary, and Oglethorpe
Point Elementary.
During construction of the
new Burroughs-Molette school,
By Pamela Permar Shierling
that voting precinct was re
located to the Zion Baptist
Church. Instead of going back
into the school or remaining in
the church, the BOE will work
with the City of Brunswick to
see if the precinct location can
be moved to the Roosevelt Har
ris Senior Center.
The board voted to autho
rize staff to make this move to
the Senior Center provided the
City agrees.
According to BOE Super
visor Chris Channell Center
Point Church, which is located
within the Satilla Marsh El
ementary School precinct, is
willing to act as the new polling
location. The church is located
off Highway 17 near the inter
section with Highway 82.
There was discussion about
combining the Satilla Marsh
precinct and the Marshes of
Glynn Church precinct and re
locating those polling places to
the Bay Harbor Church.
Channell said Bay Harbor
was large enough to handle
two precincts and that would
help reduce BOE costs.
Another option to move
out of the Marshes of Glynn
Church would be to move to
the Brook man Community
Building.
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Board of Elections
BOC denies
alcohol license
for Boomer's
By Matthew J. Permar
During their regular meet
ing last Thursday, August 15,
the Glynn County Board of
Commissioners (BOC) unani
mously denied, with little dis
cussion amongst themselves,
an alcoholic beverage license
for Boomer’s Truck Yard in
Brunswick.
The business is proposed for
the intersection of Highways
341 and 303 in Glynn at the
location of the former Pump
kin Patch fruit stand. It also
includes the mostly vacant lot
behind the old Pumpkin Patch
building on Hwy. 303.
While Boomer’s owner,
Tony Clark, got the site plan
for the business approved at
the Mainland Planning Com
mission’s (MPC) July meeting,
it was a split 4-3 decision.
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License denied
County tax
bills will
look slightly
different
By Pamela Permar
Shierling
Both Glynn County and
the Glynn County Board of
Education have adopted their
2019 millage rates. The City of
Brunswick will hold a final pub
lic hearing Wednesday (Aug.
21) at 5:30 prior to their 6 p.m.
meeting when it is expected
they will adopt their millage
rate.
The good news: there are no
millage rate increases and for
city and Jekyll Island residents,
their county millage rates will
go down.
This year Glynn County re
moved the police fund and the
emergency services fund from
the general fund since Bruns
wick residents do not pay for
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County tax bills
County-Wide News -
Read County-Wide
Page 2 - Clark announces run for County
Page 3 - Local Business
Commission Post 2
Page 8 - Sports with Dave Jordan
~ Brunswick Glynn Library
Page 10 - Pew News
to hold book sale
Page 12 - Back Talk