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Pssst. I want to tell y'all something. My buddy Buck Creek Bobby WOrks at Norfolk Southern and gave me a
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tip. You ready. All day tomorrow, Wednesday, them boys are gonna be digging up the railroadcrossmg on
Hwy. 18 in front of the old Monroe Academy. Do you know what that means? Traffic nightmare. And here's
another news tip they'll be doing the same thing on Thursday to the railroad crossing on Lee Street, aka
Hamburger Hill. Do you know what a nightmare that's gonna be? Shoot, me and Towaliga Tina just gonna
stay here on the Ponderosa and make sammiches the rest of the week, That is, until Friday, of course, when
the Bulldogs host them private school pansies from the ATL.I Did .you see what that website up there in Atlanta
said? They said we've got the best chance of any school in Class to win the state championship. Not sure how
those computers know these things. I know one thing if we geta big lead again Friday, we better those
starters ASAP. We need everyone healthy if we're gonna make history for the first time since 1980.
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Whites are not the racists
however; you are pushing
them to no longer have
white,guilt Then you will
see what racists cando
Drivers in Forsyth will
soon see more enforcement
of traffic laws, includ-
ing speed limits. The city
signed a contract with
Public Finance Strategies
(PFS) of South Carolina to
lease a police vehide that
will enforce traffic laws in
the city, including the part
ofi-75 in the city limits.
banktU The city agrees to have the
legal crimin~ls. Why wo~ld
an e live fhe ? car on patrol for at least 120
hours per month focus-
Can there ever be a MUs,
lim Martin Luther?
ing on traffic laws, and the
company receives $25 of
each fine paid as a result
of enforcement using the
vehicle. When the lease
payments reach the value
of the car, the city can buy
it for $1.
Mayor Eric Wilson told
the Reporter he has no
problem with the deal as
long as city officers don't
Liberals are like a cancer.
They're moving out of CA
into CO and TX. Now
they're voting to turn those
two states into exactly
what they moved away
from.
feel pressure to write more ter 2006 with the economic enforcement four hours per
tickets to generate revenue, downturn. Even though day to reach the 120 hours
Former police chief Keith the budgets of law enforce- per month. If no tickets are
Corley resigned three years ment agencies have grown written, no money is due
ago during a dispute with back to pre-depressionPFS. City Manager Janice
city manager Janice Hall levels, purchase of police Hall said Forsyth collects
over the declining amount vehicles has not gotten $250,000-275,000 in traffic
of revenue from traffic back to where it was. With fines per year now.
tickets, less cars and equipment for DanzeU said it is up to
Police Chief Eddie Harris enforcement, some depart- Harris to run the program,
introduced the representa- ments, like Jackson, Miss. to set the level at which
tive of PFS, Bill Danzell, had stopped doing traffic tickets will be written (such
to city council at its Nov. 5 enforcement. Consequently as 11 mph over the speed
meeting and recommended traffic fatalities have in- limit), and to target areas
that the city enter into the creased, where there are problems
agreement. The Forsyth Po- Danzell said violators(such as 1-75). Harris said
lice Department will get a should pay for police he plans to assign one of-
2018 Ford Taurus valued at equipment and that is what ricer to the car for traffic
$30,000 plus a Stalker Lidar they do in the lease pro- enforcement rather than
unit valued at $2,000. The gram he proposed to For- rotate different officers to it.
contract calls for a 90-day syria. PFS requires a depart- He feels assigning a specific
trial period to be extended ment to set a benchmark of officer will create more ac-
to one year and then three where their safety problem countability. Harris said he
additional years, is, like how many speed- has met with his admin-
Danzell began his presen- ing violations per hour,
tation by saying there used and then submit reports to
to be 65,000 police cars on the company on how that
the roads in the U.S. but is changing. PFS asks that
that dropped to 50,000 at- the police be used in traffic
istrator aboflt a system to
distinguish which tickets
are written from the PFS
car and she is on board.
"It's a good deal if the
way to pay for the car is by
doing :the job," said council
member John Howard. "I
don't see where we're at
any major risk. The Chief
knows who he wants to put
in the vehicle:'
Council member Greg,
Goolsby asked Harris ff the
contract will increase his: ,
available manpower or take
away from it. Harris saiff'
it will increase manpower
by having more equipment '
available.
"The equipment will be
used to enforce the law"
said Hall.
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by our least experienced
drivers. Priorities?
7-Little-Johnstons - Best
show ever! Glad the fam-
ily decided to live here in
Monroe County. Can't wait
for the honey and honey
too
America has absorbed over
100 million third-world
people from 196 coun-
tries with failed cultures.
Most of them are placed
into communities where
Democratic Party needs
votes. That is how Maxine
Waters continues to spread
hate and media Ioo~ the
other way.
enemy of the people! Even
Fox News is a liberal New
York propaganda machine.
The Democrats will 'find' a
stack of uncounted ballots
somewhere. They do it ev-
ery election that they don't
win outright. Wait and see.
GOD never left America.
America I~ Gee out in
the cold.
The Piggly Wiggly Dell is
off the chaln---DELISH. Try
them and you'll Love it too
Y'all, Will is building a walll
BREAKING,
i ngs in Ga.
Can you ,vote Democrat
and be a Christian? Pro-
Death. LBGTQSA, Mobs,
and Full Government
Control. *
2 things Stacey Abrams
won't give up on - a gov-
ernor's race and seafood
night at the buffet!
TaYlor Swift earned
48,000,000in 201Z Her
Oprah and Obama are
poor losers.
Georgia
representation. If it was not
for Atlanta Metropolitan,
Stacey Abrams would have
very few votes.
By Will Davis
~ublisher@mymcr net
Family members of
former sheriff's candidate
Ronnie "locke" Evans are
lashing out after Evans had
to reimburse $15 to the
sheriff's office for making
copies of campaign materi-
als there.
'Tm sick and tired of the
way he has been treated
throughout this whole pro-
cess and now I'm gonna de-
fend my father!" Brandon
Evans wrote on Facebook.
Interim sheriff A1 Shack-
elford said he only learned
recently that Evans, who is
retired, came by the sher-
iff's office a few months
ago to make copies for his
campaign.
Shackelford ordered
internal affairs investigator
Michael Clay to look into
the episode and learned
that jailer Perry Fitzgerald
had allowed Evans inside to
make the copies.
Shackelford said Fitzger-
ald was reprimanded and
Evans paid back the cost of
the copies, $15, on Thurs-
day, Nov. 8.
"It's not our property, it
belongs to the county not
us" said Shackelford. "I
can't ignore that. I'm sorry
but you've got to do the
right thing?
Shackelford said he
stressed to the staffthat
they cannot use county re-
sources for personal things.
But Brandon Evans ap-
parently disagrees, and his
father Ronnie Evans shared
his son's post on Facebook
about it.
"Can you believe an
employee of the Sheriff's
office had the audacity to
call him and ask him to pay
for those copies 2 months
later?" wrote Brandon
Evans. "Wasn't a problem
then. Wasn't a problem
over the last 34 years when
he made copies for his kids
when they needed them for
homework. Never asked
him to pay for them then!
Some will chime in and say
well technically he doesn't
work there anymore. Uh,
yes he does, your [sic] still
paying him. This is the
same man who served war-
rants at night for 8 years,
by himself. Same man with
2 minor infractions over
34 years with the Sheriff's
office. Don't you think he
earned 50/75 pieces of
copy paper?"
Brandon Evans said both
candidates who made the
runoff, Lawson Bittick
and Brad Freeman, called
Evans, who came in third,
to ask for his support.
Brandon Evans wrote that
neither of them had called
his dad since he retired.
"This is exactly why the
Sheriff's office keeps losing
good officers because ofbs
like this!!" wrote Evans. "I
just want to say whoever is
elected ask your employees
to focus more on the crime
rate (burglaries, theft, huge
drug problem.) Ifyou don't
think he has earned the
right to 50 pieces of paper,
shame on you. Hope you
sleep well at night"
Meanwhile, the Reporter
has learned that while the
candidates who had been
working for the Monroe
County Sheriff's Office
were required to go on
leave during the campaign,
Lawson Bittick was allowed
to work when the remnants
of Hurricane Michael came
through Forsyth.
Shackelford said Lawson
Bittick called and offered to
work and even volunteered
to help clear roads for free.
But Shackelford said they
can't let people work offthe
dock.
Shackelford said he
would'v,e allowed any of the
candidates who were on "
leave to come in during the
. storm if they had asked.
"I wish they had all
called" said Sha&elford. "It
would've been a feather in
their caps."
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