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y Customers Owe City $300,000 in Utility Bills
GETER
City of Hogansville has
$300,000 "out" in uncol-
z m utilitms that reach-
as 10 years accord-
City Councilman Charlie
Said almost half of the city's
"residents are at least six months
behind according to utility records.
Martin said there are several
residents that are behind and they
are still getting utility, services.
"The city council is probably at
fault for some of this," Martin said.
%Ve have a lot of money out there."
Of the $300,000 owed the city,
60 businesses are responsible for a
total of $18,200.
Martin said he would like to send
letters to the more than 1,100 resi-
dents who are behind on their bills
or even publish their names in the
newspaper as well as having their
power, water or gas cut off.
Martin said this problem goes
back to several councils and "we are
at fault for some of this because we
send out bills to the last known
address and don't follow up."
He said one list which was not
complete shows that July 1998 until
December 2000 more than 200 res-
idents owe more than $60,000
"With $60,000, we wouldn't have
had to raise the utilities rates 2.4
percent," he stated.
City Manager David Aldrich
said even the collect-
ing agency has been
slow.
"We want to col-
lect this money
because it's not fair
for the other resi-
dents to have to pick
up the slack," Aldrich
said.
Aldrich
@
GETER
Hogansville Police
is investigating
taking incidents
last week.
y of 201 Elm
police that some-
! July 4 in the early
took his white and
Pit bulldog but recov-
dog around noon
residence of 100
told police he
:he knew who took the
procedures
IAustin of 209 Brazell
for help. Austin
wanted to used
getting
the woman
Austin's pocket-
a $100 in cash.
is under haves-
over
James Cameron of
Boyd Street, told
someone cut the
;tram-
said he believed
relation to an ear-
at this resi-
4Elm
police that some-
3 br July 4 did
his vehicle
points around."
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THEY ARE READY - Each summer, people in the Corinth community can hardly
wait until the big juicy red tomatoes are ready to pick and eat. Fresh produce lovers
come from Newnan, LaGrange, Hogansville and even as far as Florida to Walter
Purgason's yard to buy vegetables, especially the tomatoes. : Last year. Purgason
sold more than 1,000 Ibs. and hopes to do the same thks year. Pictured with Purgason
(R) is his grandson, Ben McCurdy, holding the "big one."
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Two
Free
Lose
doln
On July 4
Drug Charges Land Pair
In Jail After Traffic Stop
By BRYAN GETER
The Hogansville Police
Department arrested two
men, one from Newnan and
on
charged them with VGCSA
after finding illegal drugs in
the vehicle they were in.
Donald Wade Whitlock,
27, of 2469 W. Grantville
Road, Newnan was also
charged with falsifying proof
of insurance and driving
without license.
A passenger, Michael
Wayne Smith, 34, of 100
Grady Smith Street in
Grantville was charged with
VGCSA.
Officer John Starnes said
he saw Whitlock pulled out
of a driveway on Ware Street
in a 1991 Buick Regal and
noticed the car had a dealer
"drive out" tag on it and decid-
ed to pull it over to check for
insurance and license.
Whitlock told the officer
that he had left his license at
home and after running a
check, found out he did have
a valid license.
Police d eation
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had been changed.
Sta_rnes asked for and got
consent to search the vehicle
and d for backup.
Starnes and Officer Tony
Lattimore searched the car
and found a bag that con-
tained a marijuana pipe with
rolling papers under the back
seat.
Officers found a wadded-
up papgr containing five
small bags of suspected mar-
ijuana in the trunk.
They also found a plastic
bag that had one creck pipe
and two creck rocks in it
behind the radio in the dash.
At this point, police arrested
both men and transported
them to the Troup County jail.
Woman, It ;, Kicks Out W'mdow of Patrol Car After Arrest
Spradlin of 104
N told police that
between July 2
entered his build-
authority and
hand truck
and one yellow
valued at
turned over
arrested Vince W.
July 6 and eharged
under faro-
act.
Sewell was
for shoplifting,
police reports.
is presently
DFAC
case were
and the oth-
elderly abuse, neg-
r child.
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By BRYAN
An 18- year-old female,
Lyndi Faye Boswell, who
resides at 204 Pine Ridge
Park in Meriwether County
near Hogansville, was arrest-
ed by the Hogansville Police
Department early Monday
morning and charged with
disorderly eamduct, cin
damage to government prop-
erty and obstruction of offi-
cer.
Police report states
Jonathan Tenney approached
Officer Samantha Dunklee at
the Chevron station near
Interstate 85 at 2:09 &m. and
asked for her help.
TENNEY told the officer
he was trying to get away
from his girlfriend, Lyndi
Boswell, after an argument
Get 459 Calls
t
i Hogansville Police
had a busy
June accord-
Police chief Guy
handled 459 calls
and had 96
made 19 misde-
meanor arrests and three
felony arrests.
• The police gave 57 traf-
fic citations andmade 17 acci-
dent reports and 74 incident
reports.
Officers assisted other
agencies 42 times, refuse
ordinances distributed - 18
add refuse ordinances cited
-4.
CHECKING OUT .TH E M.A ,TrER - lle Police Chief Guy Spradlin chec7oC
dama e to one of nis pau'o= cars on MOnde morni •
g ........... y ng. After being put rote the back of
the patro car, an onenoer mcKeo out me window.
but she refused to give him physically to block him from Meriwether County with
his truck keys and she tried leaving their residence" in someone else.
Tenney said when he did
leave, she followed him in his
vehicle into Hogansville.
Boswell told police she
just wanted to talk to Tenney.
REPORTS state that she
, refused to get out of the truck
and into a friend's vehicle
who was waiting for her.
Then, she began yelling
obscenities at officers.
Officers Dunldee and Lee
struggled to, get Boswell out
of the truck after telling her
she was under an arrest.
After getting her into the
patrol car, Boswell kicked out
the driver's side rear window.
Report stated the window was
broken out and the window
frame was partially pushed
out.
Boswell was transported
to the Troup County Sheriffs
Office in LaGrange.
Troup Jobless Rate Improves
By ROe mctlanDso.
The employment rate
for the four-county area
improved slightly in May.
According to fiffares just
released by the Georgia
I)epartment of Labor, the
Harris-Troup,Meriwet her_
Talbot area showed an aver-
age jobless rate of 4.8 per-
cent for May, down a fraction
from the 4.9 percent rate
shown in April.
• But the four-county rate
is actually the same as it was
a year ago, when it was also
5.4 percent in March of 2001.
The area still lags bebAnd
the statewide unemployment
average, which was 4.5 per-
cent in May, up from the 4.2
recorded for April.
Jobless rates improved
in Meriwether, Troup and
Talbot, but worsened a bit in
Harris County, although it
still has one of the lowest
rates in the state.
Ironically, State Labor
Commer Michael
Thurmond sees the higher
statewide rate as signal of
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