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PERMIT NO. 35
60, NO. 9
HOGANSVILLE, GEOF :IGIA - THURSDAY, FEB. 27, 2003
8 PAGES • 1 SECTION ° 50¢
Gives I, Jbrary to County
ATLANTA- Taking part in the annual FFA day the State Capi( ol were Pfident total funding of local
Bruce, Chapter Vice-President Heather Smith and their Chapter Ad risor Alan Beasley, who were select-
attend from the Central Region.
old Dome Classr(00om
Chapter Members Spend Action-Packed Day at State Capitol
The Callaway High School FFA Governor Sonny Perdue, State ( 9f FFA himself, was keenly aware of
1FFA Superintendent of Schools Kathy Cox, 1 :he program and it's current concerns
at the Capitol on Tuesday, Speaker of the House Terry Coleman t "egarding budget cuts and their pos-
18th. and the State FFA officers were the , ;ible effects.
Bruce, featured speakers atthe Legislative Following the breakfast the group
Vice-President Heather breakfast meeting that morning. vas allowed to tour the Capitol and
Advisor Alan The hey message of the morning rneet with many of the legislators and
were selected to attend from was the positive impact FFA can have S',tate officials.
gion. on the lives of participating high Many of the student FFA members
event is held during schoolers, x:ere allowed to serve as pages for
began with a The official theme for the year is, tiaeir local legislators.
or participating FFA mm- "One Mission: Student Success." It was a very informative event
r legislators. The Governor, a former member fi r all the participants.
Suspected
Driving Arrests
GETER
Hogansville Police made several cases
Weekend including arresting Kathy L.
1657 John Trammell Road on one
under the influence of alcohol and
of driving while license suspended.
)ed Dettmering on Sunday around
after noticing a piece of wire dragging
causing sparks.
said there was a long piece of barbed
:from the front to the back of the vehi-
airbags were deployed. Also, the pick-
extensive damage to the front and dirt, mud
all over the vehicle.
arrived at the win-
a strong odor of an alcoholic bev-
separate incident, police arrested a
man, Trypus Leondra Rosser, 32, of
and charged him with DUI, too fast
and open container.
on routine patrol on the west side of
a vehicle traveling toward him at a
MPH in a 25 IH zone.
said he turned the blue light on, but Rosser
Stop and turned onto Ware Street.
separate case, Anthony Bernard McGhee,
is charged with an August 2002
t in HogansviUe.
rrested in Meriwether
Some time ago and a routine warrant check
showed he was'wanted in HogansviIIe.
booked into the Troup County jail
on one count of theft by taking of a
Vehicle.
Hogansville to Save $30,000
By Handing Over Control
T h e
By BRYAN GETER local library
board of
Hogansville will contin- t r u s t e € s,
ue to have its library, but it which is
will be operated by the coun- a p p o i n t e d
ty. partially by
Officials have been work- t h e
ing diligently for several Hogansvitle
months to deed the library to City Council
Troup County, but some com- and the
plications arose. Jack Leidner T r o u p
City Councilman Jack C o u n t y
Leidner, who is also a mem- Commission, will continue to
bet of the Troup-Coweta- operate the library and the
Harris Library board of county will fund it from prop-
directors, said the city didn't erty taxes collected county-
want the building to be given wide.
away. Hogansville will save
He said there is a clause approximately $30,000 atom-
in the new lease that states if ally by changing ownership
the building stops being used of the library.
as a library, the county will The county will be m
give it back to Hogansville. charge of all building main-
The final agreement with tenance.
the county will be drafted and
approved. The building was built I:)y
"It's up to the lawyers the state in 1990 for $402,865.
now," said JoEllen Ostendorf, Troup County
library system director. "I'm Commissioner Ken Smith
not sure what the holdup is." said this was a mandate from
More than a year ago, the the state, "but they haven't
statetold counties in Georgia given us any money to fund
the librli system.',
libraries as a plan to consoli- The board currently
date services, includes representatives
At that time, no one real- from Hogansville, LaGrange,
ized that Hogansville owned Troup County and the Troup
the building, Ostendorf said. County School Board.
Driver for Hit and Run
Still Sought by Police
By BRYAN GETER
The LaGrange police are
looking for the driver of a
vehicle who collided W!th a
pickup truck on Saturday
night on LaFayette Parkway
causing the truck to lose a
wheel.
Ben McWhorter, 18, of
Hogansville told police that
he was driving a 1999 Ford
F-0 owned by LaGrange
Pr.oane Inc. when a blue
trt::, with purple neon light,,:
st2k him on the right side
aNgtt 9:20 p.m.
flMcWhorter lost control
of ,e truck, which went into
a sfin. Later, police found the
Fm,'s right rear tire in a
drainage ditch. The case
remains under investigation,
By Bryan Geter
REPAIRING THE TRACKS -+ Employees of CSX Railroad were hard at work Monday repairing the railroad tracks at the
crossing on Main Street. The ( race-labor intensive work is now largely automated and takes relatively few workers.
Crossing R¢00.pair Hits Snag, But Finally Finished
By Bryan Geter
REPLACING THE CROSSTIE !S- Workers were busy replac-
ing crossties on Monday in Hoc ]ansville. Although concrete ties
have been developed, most rai Iroads still use wooden ones•
prise to the City of
By BRYAN GETER
The railroad crossing on
Main Street at Highway 29,
which was supposed to re
open by Monday afternoon,
remained closed until late
Tuesday evening.
A spokesperson for the
i)epartment of
Transportation said there
were problems with the
equipment which caused the
delay.
CSX Railroad was doing
routine repairs on the former
A&WP tracks.
The closing came as a sur-
Hogansville since no prior
notification was given the
city.
Gary Sease, a CSX
spokesman said he was not
sure why the city was not told
about the upcoming Main
Street work.
After hearing about the
closing, city officials got busy
with plans to reroute big
trucks as well as school buses.
Hogansville Police Chief
Guy Spradlin said there were
no problems with traffic over
the weekend after rerouting
the trucks on Bass
Crossroads.
