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County presents full budget
County officials are proposing a $67 million budget for the upcoming fiscal year, including plans to start revitalizing convenience centers. The proposed budget, which had a first hearing Tuesday, has $67,496,122 in planned expenses and $67,738,648 in expected revenue. The full budget is available to view at LaGrange Memorial Library, Hogansville Public Library and Hawkes Library in West Point, and online at troupcountyga.org. The county ...
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LaGrange looks to regulate roadside soliciting
LaGrange City Council will look to regulate who can solicit donations on the streets after numerous complaints. “Someone is going to get hurt,” City Manager Tom Hall said. Groups have been seen at major intersections in the city, including Davis Road at Lafayette Parkway and Commerce Avenue at New Franklin Road, with buckets, walking from car to car asking for money. Some of the organizations aren’t from the area and do not clearly identi...
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Council considers organization funding requests
Just hours before its annual budget hearing, LaGrange City Council granted the wishes of two organizations’ funding requests for the next fiscal year. The Troup County Center for Strategic Planning will receive $41,680 from the city, the amount it requested. Council had questioned the increase when the budget first was discussed, since it only gave the agency $22,325 for the year ending June 30. Mayor Jeff Lukken, who was a board member o...
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Lewis O. Powell IV | Daily News Steve Dolinger, President of the Georgfia Partnership for Excellence in Education, gives a presentation, 'The Economics of Education,' at the LaGrange-Troup County Chamber of Commerce Early Bird Breakfast on Tuesday.
Chamber of Commerce hears education expert
Members of the LaGrange-Troup County Chamber of Commerce heard ideas Tuesday on how to improve the “birth to work pipeline” from Steve Dolinger at their monthly Early Bird Breakfast yesterday morning. After enjoying coffee and networking sponsored by Diverse Buildings & Components, LLC and breakfast served by Tulla White Catering, chamber members heard from Dolinger, president of the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education. Doling...
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Enola Gay navigator to speak Saturday
Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk, who navigated the Enola Gay into history in 1945, will be speaking here and signing copies of his book on Saturday. The last living member of the crew of the Enola Gay, the bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, Van Kirk was born in the small town of Northumberland, Penn. He joined the Army Air Force Cadet Program just a few weeks prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor a...
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Update: Fatal crash determined a suicide
A police investigation into a fatal crash at a residence at the intersection of Greenville Street and Dixie Street Monday morning was determined to be the result of a suicide. The crash happened shortly after 10:30 a.m. when a pickup truck, driven by Kevin Felton Russell, 54, of LaGrange, sped across a vacant parking lot beside the residence, down a small hill, and crashed into a tree behind the residence, causing a large amount of smoke to...
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Elections vote in West Point likely next month
West Point City Council will likely vote in July on using Harris County to run its municipal election in November. “We’re close” to an agreement, City Manager Ed Moon said Monday night. Moon said there’s no issue with Harris County running the election and the county elections superintendent is willing to take it on. The election would be held at the Harris County polling place in West Point – the Church of the Resurrection – and no ear...
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Grief camp for children
About 60 campers and family members release balloons Sunday at the closing ceremonies of Camp Dogwood, the annual grief camp for children sponsored by Hospice LaGrange. Campers spent the week at Pineland, the Georgia Sheriff’s Youth Home campus, with volunteer counselors and other staff. ‘You have been brave and strong and worked hard this weekend,’ said Cathy Wiggins, director of Hospice LaGrange. In keeping with this year’s theme of going f...
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Gunman holds victims overnight in home invasion
LaGrange police are looking for a man suspected of holding up a group of people overnight in an home invasion and armed robbery Thursday morning. Investigations said a black male, about 5-foot-8 and weighing 180 pounds, last seen wearing a black hat, black shirt and black shorts, with a green bandanna covering his face, entered a North Greenwood Street residence some time Wednesday night and robbed two of the victims at gun point. The suspe...
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Chattahoochee Riverkeeper Robert Kennedy Jr., who founded the Waterkeeper Alliance 30 years ago, rallies international riverkeepers on the last night of the Waterkeeper Alliance annual conference Saturday at Callaway Gardens.
RFK Jr. rallies international riverkeepers
PINE MOUNTAIN – Robert Kennedy Jr. praised riverkeepers from the United States and around the world at the annual meeting of the Waterkeeper Alliance, the organization he founded. “I don’t even consider us environmentalists anymore,” he said. “We’re free-marketeers, out to catch the cheaters.” The “cheaters,” in this case, are those that pollute the water, usually in an attempt to save money for businesses and governments, he said. “We ...
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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...
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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...
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