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Hearing set for pharmacy sign
LaGrange City Council has set a hearing date for May 14 to discuss a sign variance for the Medical Center Pharmacy at 300 Mooty Bridge Road. The pharmacy needs the variance to allow for the larger sign, which doesn’t meet the requirements of the city sign ordinance. The sign was erected after the city erroneously issued a permit for it. “It was definitely our error,” City Manager Tom Hall said. Some council members, however, don’t want ...
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Chance of severe storms forecast for Thursday into early Friday
Wednesday’s weather will be sunny and warm, but Georgia could be facing a round of severe storms Thursday into early Friday. The National Weather Service said thunderstorms are expected to develop along and ahead of a cold front that will push through the state from the west Thursday night. “Confidence continues to increase that isolated severe storms will accompany this system, mainly in the form of a squall line with damaging winds,” th...
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Hawkes Library will get $22,000, Bradshaw will get $8,000
West Point City Council decided Monday night to give the majority of money set aside for libraries to Hawkes Library in West Point. Hawkes will receive $22,000, its initial request in the 2013 budget, and the Cobb archives at Bradshaw Library in Valley, Ala., will get $8,000. “It’s sad,” said Councilwoman Sandra Thornton, who wanted to split the $30,000 allocated 50-50 between the two libraries. “We talk about educating the children and w...
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Show off your fine fish photos in Best Catch contest
Do you want to show everyone that you really did make the catch of the day and you’re not just telling some fish story? The LaGrange Daily News is hosting an online contest for your best catch photos. Simply go to lagrangenews.com and click on the Best Catch Contest logo on the home page and follow directions on how to enter your photo for the contest. There are several categories for the contest including, men, women, teenagers 13 to 16, a...
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Speaker to explore genealogy at Troup County Historical Society luncheon
If so, The Troup County Historical Society is hosting a program that could help participants unravel questions about their heritage. “Using Y-DNA to Research YOUR Genealogy” is the topic April 19 at the Troup County Historical Society’s members’ brunch at Highland Country Club. Terry Barton, an expert on using DNA for genealogy research, will be the speaker. Barton is an family historian, amateur genealogist and pioneer in genetic genealo...
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Corps sets dates for water plan progress
It will be at least three more years before the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint basin will see an update to its water control plan. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which manages the basin, released its final “scoping report” on the public comments it collected late last year. Scoping is the corps’ term for its public comment period. The comments will be used as the corps comes up with its draft environmental impact statement, or EIS, e...
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Man killed in morning motorcycle wreck
A man was killed on a motorcycle about 7 a.m. Saturday at Hammett Road and the Whitebluff subdivision just north of Hightower Road. Troup 911 reports said the man, whose name was not released this morning, went off the road and was trapped under a fence. A report was not available from Georgia State Patrol this morning.
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Local woman zombified for ‘Walking Dead’ appearance
An estimated 12.4 million people watched the March 31 season finale of “The Walking Dead,” the cable TV show filmed in Senoia, just about an hour north of LaGrange, and one local woman was part of the action. Crystal Kelly Toudt played a “walker,” one of the reanimated corpses that plague the central cast of characters in the TV show, in the finale and the episode preceding it. Toudt filmed her part on Nov. 1, three days before shooting for...
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Professor Chad Harris monitors Ed Russ, a quarterback for the Panthers, as he lifts weights.
‘I’m glad the program came here’
LaGrange College’s exercise science program is rapidly growing, doubling its enrollment since it began in fall. There was large student interest in bringing the program to the campus, and director of the program Chad Harris came to the college from Western New Mexico University in June to begin putting the program together, which started in the fall semester. Harris has a doctorate in human performance from Oregon State University and was...
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West Point will decide library funding
Four months after passing its 2013 spending plan, West Point City Council will vote Monday on how to fund Hawkes Library in West Point and Bradshaw Library in adjacent Valley, Ala. Library funding was a main sticking point of the budget negotiations – as it has been for the last several years. When council passed its budget in December, $30,0000 was kept in a fund for library services. Since then, the city and both libraries have been worki...
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Police Reports
Public safety
• A fight was reported in the 100 block of Turner Street, after a woman said a group of juveniles began knocking on her door. One female in particular, she said, was familiar to her and wanted to ...
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Robbery Police were investigating a robbery at La Colombiana, 306 B Cherry St., Saturday night. A man told police that he was approached by an unknown suspect, who choked him and stole his cel...
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Public safety
Burglaries, thefts A woman reported an air conditioner stolen from her home in the 100 block of Fuller Road. The unit is valued at approximately $1,500, according to a police report. An empl...
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Burglaries, thefts •Two flat-screen televisions were reportedly stolen during a burglary in the 100 block of Butler Street. The victim told police the 42-inch and 26-inch televisions were stol...
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Man arrested on auto theft charge near Liberty Hill Park
• A man was arrested and charged with auto theft, after police recovered a stolen vehicle in the woods near the lake access of Liberty Hill Park on Monday. The Troup County Sheriff’s Office noti...
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Restaurant Inspections
Restaurant inspections for June 16
Explanations: Here is an explanation of food service inspection violations used by Troup County Health Department. 1. Food-borne illness risk factors and public health interventions: Risk fact...
Jun 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 28 28 recommendations | email to a friend
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Restaurant inspections for May 29
Explanations: Here is an explanation of food service inspection violations used by Troup County Health Department. 1. Food-borne illness risk factors and public health interventions: Risk fact...
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Restaurant Inspections, May 24
Explanations: Here is an explanation of food service inspection violations used by Troup County Health Department. 1. Food-borne illness risk factors and public health interventions: Risk fact...
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Restaurant inspections for May 22
Explanations: Here is an explanation of food service inspection violations used by Troup County Health Department. 1. Food-borne illness risk factors and public health interventions: Risk fact...
May 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
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