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Cabinet Resources open for local home renovations

Cabinet Resources open for local home renovations

Cabinet Resources open for local home renovations

Alaina Clarke
Thursday, July 28, 2022
Cabinet Resources, a local home renovation business, is open on Gray Highway to help Jones County people make their home improvement needs and wants come true. The business is located at 3109 Gray Highway in Gray and is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Loud music leads to disorderly conduct arrest

Loud music leads to disorderly conduct arrest

Loud music leads to disorderly conduct arrest

T. Michael Stone
Thursday, July 28, 2022
A Buckhead man was arrested July 25 after he was asked to turn down his music several times and became angry with the deputy dispatched to his Apalachee Woods Trail address. Christopher Franklin Cox, 55, faces charges of excessive noise, disorderly conduct and obstruction of law enforcement.
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City Council refuses Jimmy Davis Park

Mark Engel
Thursday, July 28, 2022
In a tersely written resolution, the Eatonton City Council has made it absolutely clear that they do not want Jimmy Davis Park. The park is located inside the city limits and originally belonged to the city.
BOE hears summer success; school starts Aug. 1

BOE hears summer success; school starts Aug. 1

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BOE hears summer success; school starts Aug. 1

Mark Engel
Thursday, July 28, 2022
As the clock ticks down to the start of school on Aug. 1, the Greene County Board of Education heard good things about summer school this year.
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Bookkeeper in prison for more than $150K in fraud

Lynn Hobbs
Thursday, July 28, 2022
A Putnam County woman who stole almost $157,000 from small, local businesses was sentenced to prison by a federal judge July 12 and ordered to pay restitution to the victims. Alicia Merritt, 48, of Eatonton, admitted to stealing $156,734.
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Ambulance patient killed in crash with log truck

Lynn Hobbs
Thursday, July 28, 2022
An elderly woman lost her life when the ambulance that was taking her to the hospital turned in front of a logging truck around 3 p.m. Monday, July 25. Betty Gentry, 79, of Eatonton, succumbed to her injuries at Putnam General Hospital, according to Eatonton Police Sgt. Harold “Buddy” Bowman.
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Police Blotter (7/29)

Staff Reports
Thursday, July 28, 2022
MORGAN COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE Barney Vincent O’Hara, 40, of North Augusta, South Carolina, was arrested July 20 and charged with driving while license suspended and following too closely.
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