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Smoke rises from the home of Dleane ~ C~rine Comer on Friday. Investigators say the stove was left on causing the
blaze. At right, Nat~ Comer, 12, suffered smoke inhalation while rescuing the family cats, Maximus, left, and Seven, right,
but he was back at school on Tuesday (Photos/Richard Dumas and Deane Comer)
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Dorothy Louise Brinkley
Linda Diane Harris
Randy Jackson
By Will Davis was home alone and was able JL are staying in a Macon hotel
pubhsher@mymcr.net to save the family's cats, Seven while they wait for the insurance
and Max, but had to be flown to company's final decision.
Monroe County fireman Deane Augusta to be treated for smoke Comer said the insurance adjus-
Comer says a stove left on likely inhalation suffered while getting tor is recommending the home be
caused the blaze that destroyed his the cats out of the burning home. declared a total loss. Comer says if
family's home on Partridge Drive Nate is back with his family now that stands they'll probably bull-
in south Monroe County on Friday, and doing fine and the Comers, doze the remnants and re-build on
Jan. 18. Deane and Corrine, and their four
Comers 12-year-old son, Nate, children Nate, Jersey, Reagan and See FIRE Page 5A
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By Diane Glidewell rain and wet ground contin-
news@mymcr.net ued to delay construction,
pushing back the time frame
The new Agriculture Science by about three weeks. Work-
building and renovations to ers had to have a compaction
the BOE Central Office/former rate of 98 percent before they
Mary Persons High School are could place poles for the hog
getting close to completion, and cattle barns.
according to Roger Onstott, The posts are 4 feet deep in
Director of Facilities for Mon- the ground with a concrete
roe County Schools. base and rebar. It had to be
Rain had slowed the clearing dry before workers could
of th'e Thornton Road site for pour concrete. Onstott said
the Agriculture Science build- Todd Rivers is overseeing the
ing and by mid-January, See FACILITIES Page 7A
By Richard Damas
forsyth@mymcr.net
About 175 people at-
tended Forsyth's annual
Martin Luther King Jr.
Day celebration ser-
vice at Kynette United
Methodist Church on
Monday.
The service, which
started shortly before 1
p.m came after about
100 attendees marched
to the church from the
Forsyth courthouse
square in an annual
parade led this year by
the Monroe Elite Tigers
travel football squad.
Rev. Jamaar Pye, who
formerly pastored three
Monroe County church-
es, including Kynette
See MLK Page 6A
Reno-
vations
to the
BOE,
includ-
ing the
old
audi-
torium,
should
be
com-
pleted
next
month.
