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www.MyMCR.net Vol. 47 No. 29
4 Sections 28 Pages Wednesday July 25, 2018
By Will Davis
publisher~mymcr.net
The new 715,000-square-
foot Five Below distribu-
tion warehouse under
construction in Smarr
may be the first of several
big businesses coming to
Monroe County, according
to county officials.
"We have three other
projects looking at that
[Rumble Road] site;' said
Tom Baugh, chairman of
the Monroe County Devel-
'It's going to be good for Monroe C0untyl
- Tom Baugh, chairman, Monroe County Development Authority
opment Authority. "It's go- business.
ing to be good for Monroe "When this building gets
Count .' up;' said Baugh, "it's gonna
Baugh said the new Five stick out like a sore thumb
Below warehouse on 1-75 at on that interstate"
Rumble Road will serve as There are reports that one
a giant billboard to pass- unidentified company has
ing traffic declaring that made an adjacent parcel for
Monroe Countyis open for a 1 million square-foot fa-
cility one of five finalists for
a new manufacturing plant.
The plant would reportedly
create 500 jobs in Monroe
County if the site is chosen.
Whether more industries
follow or not, county of-
ficials say landing the
Five Below warehouse
is a boon by itself. The fast-
growing retailer is kind of
a combination of a Wings
beach store and Dollar
General, with its primary
target audience being teen
and pre-teen girls. All items
are under $5. Dubbed Proj-
ect Glitter by development
officials, the distribution
center will create 130 jobs
with a $70 million invest-
ment. The initial invest-
ment includes $42 mil-
See FIVE BELOW Page 8A
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" Fu ali F Jday fo 17 Id
@ A Monroe County teenager 16, was sitting on a couch inside Inves-
died Friday after apparently ac- a house on Woodland Drivetigators
cident,aU, yshootinghimselfata near l-75 when the gun fired initially thought the teens were
friends house in Byron. about 1:30 p.m. playing Russian roulette, but
Devin Hammonds was hang- Hammonds was taken to after interviewing all of them,
; x ing out with friends, goofing Navicent Health where he was it was concluded that they were
- off,' listening to music and pronounced dead in the emer- just handling the gun which, at
handling a .38 revolver when the gency room, according to the some point, had been unloaded
gun "accidentally discharged" Telegraph. and reloaded, said the Tele-
X. into his head, Byron Police Chief Cannon told the Telegraphgraph.
o Wesley Cannon told The Macon Hammonds, of Lindsey Drive No adults were home at the
' Telegraph. in Forsyth, had spent the night time of the shooting, and Can-
: The 17-year-old, in the com- with friends and took the gun non said there's no evidence of
pany of five friends ages 14 to with him to the house.
See TEEN Page 7A
$700,
in sales
By Richard Dumas
forsyth@mymcr.net
Monroe County Commissioners vot-
ed 3-2 on Monday to include $700,000
for internet infrastructure enhance-
ments in the next Special Purpose Local
Option Sales Tax (SPLOST).
The final figure was less than half of
what District 4 commissioner George
Emami, who has championed the
expansion of the county's intemet
See INTERNET Page 3A
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