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PERMIT NO. 35
Formerly The Hogansville Herald
Serving the Hogansville-Grantville Area Since 1944
VOL. 60, NO. 25
HOGANSVILLE, GEORGIA- THURSDAY, JUNE 19 2003
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By Clint Claybrook
GYMNASIUM FALLS - The old gymnasium at Hogansville Elementary School is shown falling to a crew form
Reaves Wrecking of Columbus, which finished the job this week. The site may become home to a new swimming
Pool under the auspices of the Troup County Recreation Department. It was unclear this week if that decision had
been made.
New Bed and Breakfast Ok'd
CLAYBROOK
second
ffast should
*and
woman who will be
UPerating it promises pam-
lered treatment and lower
Irices than might be expect-
ed for her guests.
The Hogansville City
COUncil approved Tuesday
Jackie Byars' request
operate the bed and
at her 209 Oak
home. There was no
OPPosition from the council
0r from townspeople to the
%w home-operated busi-
The 10S-year-old
ictorian home she and her
sband Van own will be set
P With four complete and
!eParate bedrooms with
dividual baths. The house
as six fireplaces and the
%UPle will be adding an in-
'rOUnd swimming pool.
Amenities will include
arden tubs, a screened
0rch and deck and there'll
be,
0 a full Southern break-
st" for their guests.
The Byars bought the
in 1998 and spent
17 months renovating
contractor's help.
She sees tourists "up and
like
and breakfasts" as her-
customers.
"Ill be able to find us
By Clint Claybrook
NEW BED N' BREAKFAST - Hogansville's City Council at a Monday night meeting
approved Jackie Byars' request to operate a bedand breakfast out of her and husband
Van's home at 209 Oak Street. It should be open by fall, she said.
On the Internet and we'll
have our own web site."
Mrs. Byars hopes to
expand her business by mak-
ing it widely known that her
bed-and-breakfast will be
open seven days a week, not
just the three that so many
operators of them seem to
prefer.
The Byars also own Just
For You Antiques and Soda
Fountain downtown and Van
Byars and Son Auction
Company on Highway 29.
00itizens Question Budget For New Year
School Board's budgets, there
will be at least some increase
in the millage rate.
Pike is a former county
commissioner and
Hogansville City Council
member.
The city's proposed gen-
eral fund budget calls for rev-
enues of some $1.8 million,
compared to $1.7 million this
year.
Combined with the
Enterprise Fund Budget,
which covers the city's utili-
ties operations, ,projected
revenues for next year are
some $6.1 million. That com-
pares with projected rev-
enues of $5.8 million for the
current budget year, accord-
ing to the proposed budget,
which is still under study by
the admnistration and the
City Council.
CLAYBROOK
Hogansville
concerned about
Possibility of property tax
were told Monday
that they won't feel the
effect of reappraisal and
rate
be
b
[ O U
t'
Cause
its
Opert
, Once the
tax Mayor St. Clair
list of the value of
the taxable property in
Troup County-is established.
That roll-back would save
the owner of a $100,000 home
in the city about $8 a year,
City Manager David Aldrich
and Mayor Wilson St. Clair
explained at a Monday night
City Council meeting.
Some city residents
complained that they've
seen three tax increases
on their property in the
last five years. Some
City Council members
could only nod their
heads - they've seen the
same increases.
Comments and fears
of property tax increas-
es came during a public
hearing on Hogansville's
budget for Fiscal 2004,
which begins on July 1.
Because the city is
expected to see some
increase in property taxes
because of re-evaluation or
reappraisal during the last
year, Hogansville is required
to hold three public hearings
on its budget.
The proposed general
fund budget will include
approximately $19,000 in
additional revenues, Aldrich
pointed out.
But that's because of
reappraisal mandated by the
state, not due to the city's
actions, he noted.
Well, by golly,
Hogansville resident Thomas
Pike said, he wants the City
Council to make darn sure
that city dwellers don't get
told that "there's not going to
be any tax increase" when in
fact, due to reappraisal and
due to the County
Commission and County
Local Firm'.
Forged Check
For $18,555
Totally Bogus
By CUNT CLAYBROOK
Hogansville Police and
the Seminole County, Fla.,
sheriffs department are try-
ing to find a woman they
believe manufactured then
cashed a check on a business
here that was written for
$18,565.63.
According to a police
report, a woman named
Miranda Fashaw allegedly
deposited the check, written
on Bo-Tex Sales of
Hogansville, at the Insight
Financial Credit Union in
Apopka, Fla. early this month.
The check was written on
June 2, according to the police
report.
Dale B. Smith, Bo-Tex
Sales vice president, signed
a state as part of the on-
going sfigation in which
he said, "I did not sign this
check (and) this is not a Bo-
Tex check."
Them apparently sus-
picion t!iat aMay 16 check for
$18,63.. made to Polyflex,
went missing in the mail and
perhaps information from
that document helped make
the phony check possible.
Hogansville Police
Investigator, Sgt. Johnny
l.ockard said the case is a lit-
fie unusual in that the alleged-
ly forged check"had the right
routing number and account
number" from an old Bo-Tex
account on a bank that was a
predecessor to First Flag
Bank.
He said he thought the
person who made the deposit
in Florida made off with some
cash, "but when they found
the check was forged, I under:
stand they reversed th
charges" against the Bo-Tex
account.
Smith said in a statement
to police that "on July 9, 2003,
a Miranda Fashaw endorsed
and deposited a phony check:
made to look like a Bo-Tex-
Flag (Bank) account check
with a forged signature of
mine."
The case could lead to
charges of first-degree for-
gery and printing or execut-
i in a fict;thuo,,'.,
neff if the Fashaw woman can
be located, according to the
police report.
Council Approves
Zoning Variances
By CUNT CLAYBROOK
A Hogansville woman's
request for a zoning ordinance
variance was approved by the
City Council on Monday night,
but with the stipulation that she
must bring a building she
wants to modernize up to code
before it'll be approved as a
residential structure.
Marie Woods, who lives at
4635 Mountville Road, said
she'd comply with the council's
request, although it might take
some time.'"I want to sell my
house first, so I can complete"
that work, she said.
City Manager David
Aldrich told her than the coun-
ty's building inspector said the
building she wants to renovate
failed to meet the building code
and had suggested that it would
be expensive to bring the build-
ing up to snuff.
Nevertheless, Woods said,
she intends to proceed with the
project, i
In other action, the coun-
cil:
• Approved Terry Hopson's
request that he be allowed to
operate his general contract-
ing business out of his home at
201 Elm Street.
• Gave first approval to a
complex new zoning ordi:
nance. It will take a public hear-
ing and another vote to make
the ordinance effective.
• Approved Sherman
See "Zoning" page 2
Brother Feud;
Snake Escapes!
By CLINT CLAYBROOK
...... Brothers involved in a
dispute during which a
weapon one of them was
holding discharged were
out to kill a snake in one of
their yards before the fuss
began, one of their daugh-
ters told Hogan§ville Police.
A police report of that
incident says that an offi-
cer was called to 218 Boozer
Street on June 9 by Harold
Daniel, who told an officer
his brother, Edward Daniel,
"pulled a gun on him."
But Edward claimed
that his brother "hit him on
the head" after Edward
went into his house and
came out with a shotgun and
a .38-caliber handgun.
Harold told the officer
that he was just trying to
"take the gun or let Edward
shoot him," the police report
says.
The officer reported
that the gun discharged
sometime during the alter-
cation but was apparently
surprised to
learn that
Edward
and cannot
see."
When he
learned that, the officer,
reported, "Both guns were
taken from Edward and
given to his oldest daugh-:
ter. I advised the daughter
that Edward does not need
the guns if he cannot see."
The daughter, Mary
Daniel, told the officer that
the brothers "were talking
about a snake in Harold's
yard and Edward got th
guns so Harold could shoot
the snake."
Instead, she said, the
brothers "got into a fuss
over the land and the hous-"
es."
The snake apparently
escaped.
No charges were filed
according to the report.
