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www.MyMCR.net - Vol. 47 o No. 32 I 5 Sections - 56 Pages - Wednesday -
August 15, 2018
MONROE COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE
Two passengers
were hospital-
ized after this
wreck Thursday
on l-75 north just
south of the High
Falls Road exit.
By Will Davis Lt. Ricky Davis of the Monroe
County Sheriff’s Office said that
Spencer and his front seat pas-
senger Kiandia Hoskins had seat
belts on and were not seriously
hurt. But the back seat passen—
gers, Vernon Crawford and
Patience Hill, did not and were
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A passenger is in serious
condition after he was ejected in
a violent one-car wreck on 1-75
north on Thursday evening.
D d Orlando Spencer was speeding A trucker's video
northbound in a 2011 Honda eiected as the car overturned. camera captured
Civic just south of High Falls Monroe County EMS tOOk the accident on
Road when he slid from the far Crawford to Navicent, where he video. Scan
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left lane to the shoulder, crow remains in serious condition in code with
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pr ing all three lanes, and then the lnFemiVe Care Emit- ' phone to
see the
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video. (Courtesy
behind him captured the wreck been Clt-ed Yet bUt said the wreCk Monroe
Counl'Y
is still under investigation.
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MONROE coumv TAXES
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TOP hOld the line on
property taxes
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WELCOME
TO THE {FAMILY 7 y
Brittany Godfrey
Walter Calhoun
4 Tamika Johnson
Gary Walker
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Nt‘wsus' CRiBERS
OF THE WEEK
While Bibb County
weighs a big tax hike this
week, Monroe County ‘
property owners learned
they won’t have to pay
higher property taxes
in 2018 after county
commissioners voted on ;:
Tuesday, Aug. 7 to keep
the same millagerate,
13.331 mills, as 2017.
‘ Two days later, the
Monroe county “110.01 Monroe County chiet tax
130:“? 0118(1le?ng will; assessor Robert Gerhardt
ax 8 rom . m s . . .
. compiled this ranking
.) Eghljgtigisgllje at the total property tax
m ans that the Board of rates for area counties
Q Ejucation will not have irom 20l7. While Monroe
" ' ‘ r to hold any public hear- Countv’s rate won't 9°
up,
n—IE ings on the matter, Since County is considering
the county did not roll another tax hike.
Scout, who was nominated by her human Emily Garnett, was voted the Cutest
Pet in Mon- bifikhlts taxes’ dz: couflty bl. h . H
roe County. He wins a free Bath Package from the Paw Spa, 0 $50 gift card
from Walmart w five?" con “at r.ee pu 1‘: earmgs‘ owever’
and a free photo shoot from Simple Pleasures Photography. Other top
vote-getters were, commlssmners Could sun Clea to r011 baCk or even
in second place, Lil Sweet from Kyle Wheeler, third place was Peanut from
Marilyn Mc- lower taxes When a final VOte is ca“ on the millage
Cranie, fourth place was Frankie from Jim Fletcher and fifth place was
Sadie from Lauren
Hickman. Readers cast more than 1,900 votes among 43 dil‘lerent pets in
the lst Annual See TAXES Page 8 A
PUbliC Record Cutest Pet in Monroe County contest. See all the nominees on
page D6.
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MONROE COUNTY HOUSING
“ Affordable housing in Monroe oun?
County OKs expansion ot Weldon Rood
subdivision planning “$50,000 homes
By Richard Dumas property known as Weldon Farms
from agricultural to residential in or-
der to complete an unfinished 4l-acre
A new Subdivision with homes in subdivision begun in 2005. The move
the $150,000 to $175,000 pfice range would allow Wesley to have one;acre
appears on its way to Weldon Road lots at the Site rather than the three-
, , despite opposition from neighbor's. acre minimum lot 8128 reqtured
in ag-
_‘ Morwm3 County Commissioners ricultural. Wesley proposed 32 homes
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unanimously approved on Tuesday, at the location with a minimum home
Aug. to re_zone a tract ofiweldon Size of feet.
Monroe County zoning officer
Anita Buice said the Weldon Farms
subdivision was initially approved by
commissioners in 2005 with 18 lots of
Road for the purpose of a subdivision,
i 3553 q 3 1‘ 15 5 overturning a previous denial by the
Monroe County Planning 8: Zoning
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gfidfl Brian Wesley, (We about one acre each fronting Weldon
-/»~Donough-based Meredith Homes,
‘ ' 7 ' ' ' ‘ 'Incl, urged commissioners to re-zone
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