By Taelor Rye
When an emergency strikes, it is important to contact the appropriate services for assistance. Commonly, people dial 911 for police, fire or medical help, and emergency responders quickly make their way to the scene. However, many homes do not have clearly listed house numbers, causing service teams to take longer than necessary to arrive.
Currently, according to representatives from Dodge/Wilcox E911, Dodge County does not have any specific ordinances regarding 911 addressing or listing house numbers. However, Eastman does have ordinances concerning the matter.
Article II, § 8-23 of the Eastman City Code states, “It shall be the duty of the owners and occupants of every house, building and lot in the city to have placed thereon, in a place visible from the street, figures at least three inches high, showing the number of the house, lot or building. Such figures shall be neatly displayed on permanent material such as wood, aluminum, metal or plastic.”
One of the most common places that house numbers are displayed are on mailboxes, as the section acknowledges: “It shall also be permissible to place such figures on mailboxes so that such numbers will be easily visible on either side of the inhabitant’s mailbox. Such figures shall also be placed in a visible location on the front of each home or business or on a sign in each yard.”
While placing stickers on one’s mailbox seems easy enough, many residents still do not have house numbers clearly listed.
According to §8-24, a fine of no more than $5.00 each day shall be imposed to “any person, firm or corporation failing to so number any house, building or other structure occupied by him” after the city receives notice of the failure to comply.
However, Eastman city clerk Ivelyn Lampkin recalls, “We do have an ordinance, but we’ve never imposed it. We’ve never enforced it.”
Of course, working to enforce a mandate such as this can be tedious. Going house by house to see if the residents at each address clearly list their respective house numbers may take time away from more pressing legal issues at hand, and many may feel that it is not the obligation of law enforcement officers to notify every person in the city to label his or her mailbox. Instead, this issue may be one of personal responsibility.
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Entries from July 2015
Margaret L. Johnson
Age: 79
Died: Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Arrangements: Hardy-Towns Funeral Home of Eastman is in charge of arrangements.
Died: Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Arrangements: Hardy-Towns Funeral Home of Eastman is in charge of arrangements.
Clara Edna Dunn Giddens
Age: 73
Died: Thursday, July 30, 2015
Arrangements: Stokes-Southerland Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
Died: Thursday, July 30, 2015
Arrangements: Stokes-Southerland Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
Sales tax holiday begins July 31
Georgia’s back-to-school sales tax holiday will begin at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, July 31, and continue through midnight on Saturday, August 1.
During this period, the following items will be exempt from sales tax: clothing and footwear with a sales price of $100.00 or less per item; computers and computer components and software purchased for home or personal use with a sales price of $1,000.00 or less per item; and school supplies, art and computer supplies and instructional materials needed for school with a sales price of $20.00 or less per item.
Items not exempt include belt buckles, costume masks, sewing equipment, craft supplies, clothing accessories and cell phones.
A second tax-free period will be held in October for the purchase of Energy Star-qualified products and WaterSense products with a price of $1,500.00 or less per item.
This tax holiday is scheduled to begin at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, October 2, and end at midnight on Sunday, October 4.
During this period, the following items will be exempt from sales tax: clothing and footwear with a sales price of $100.00 or less per item; computers and computer components and software purchased for home or personal use with a sales price of $1,000.00 or less per item; and school supplies, art and computer supplies and instructional materials needed for school with a sales price of $20.00 or less per item.
Items not exempt include belt buckles, costume masks, sewing equipment, craft supplies, clothing accessories and cell phones.
A second tax-free period will be held in October for the purchase of Energy Star-qualified products and WaterSense products with a price of $1,500.00 or less per item.
This tax holiday is scheduled to begin at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, October 2, and end at midnight on Sunday, October 4.

Legals July 29, 2015 Page 1
1007 DEBTORS AND CREDITORS
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NOTICE STATE OF GEORGIA
COUNTY OF DODGE
All creditors of the Estate of REBA F. GIDDENS, deceased, late of Dodge County, Georgia, are hereby notified to render their demands to the undersigned according to law, and all persons indebted to said Estate are required to make immediate payment to the undersigned.
This 15th day of July, 2015.
TODD D. GIDDENS
407 Bellemeade Circle
Warner Robins, Georgia 31088
KELLYE C. MOORE
Walker, Hulbert, Gray & Moore, LLP
P.O. Box 1770
Perry, GA 31069
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GEORGIA, DODGE COUNTY
NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS
All creditors of the Estate of RONALD WAYNE MULLIS, deceased, late of Dodge County, Georgia, are hereby notified to render in their demands to the undersigned according to law, and all persons indebted to said estate are required to make immediate payment to us.
This 20th day of July, 2015.
JAN M. MULLIS
Administrator of the Estate of
RONALD WAYNE MULLIS
165 S. Third Street
Cochran, GA 31014 [Full Story »]
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NOTICE STATE OF GEORGIA
COUNTY OF DODGE
All creditors of the Estate of REBA F. GIDDENS, deceased, late of Dodge County, Georgia, are hereby notified to render their demands to the undersigned according to law, and all persons indebted to said Estate are required to make immediate payment to the undersigned.
This 15th day of July, 2015.
TODD D. GIDDENS
407 Bellemeade Circle
Warner Robins, Georgia 31088
KELLYE C. MOORE
Walker, Hulbert, Gray & Moore, LLP
P.O. Box 1770
Perry, GA 31069
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GEORGIA, DODGE COUNTY
NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS
All creditors of the Estate of RONALD WAYNE MULLIS, deceased, late of Dodge County, Georgia, are hereby notified to render in their demands to the undersigned according to law, and all persons indebted to said estate are required to make immediate payment to us.
This 20th day of July, 2015.
JAN M. MULLIS
Administrator of the Estate of
RONALD WAYNE MULLIS
165 S. Third Street
Cochran, GA 31014 [Full Story »]

Legals July 29, 2015 Page 2
MAP AND PARCEL: 52A 37
CURRENT RECORD HOLDER: PITTS ORIS M MRS AND PITTS VELMA
DEFENDANT IN FI-FA: SAME AS CRH(S)
TAX YEARS DUE: 2014
DEED BOOK: 69/265
LEGAL DESCRIPTION: ALL THAT TRACT OF LAND BEING IN THE TOWN OF CHAUNCEY, DODGE COUNTY, GEORGIA, BEING LOTS 5 AND 6, SECTION 45, DESIGNATED AS MAP AND PARCEL 52A 37. 30 BUSH AVENUE
MAP AND PARCEL: E 26 111
CURRENT RECORD HOLDER: PITTS WALLACE F
DEFENDANT IN FI-FA: SAME AS CRH(S)
TAX YEARS DUE: 2013-2014
DEED BOOK: 680/9
LEGAL DESCRIPTION: ALL THAT TRACT OF LAND BEING IN DODGE COUNTY, GEORGIA, AND CONSISTING OF 0.46 ACRES, MORE OR LESS, BEING BLOCK N, DESIGNATED AS MAP AND PARCEL E26-111, OF SUNSET PARK SUBDIVISION. 5811 LEITCH STREET [Full Story »]
CURRENT RECORD HOLDER: PITTS ORIS M MRS AND PITTS VELMA
DEFENDANT IN FI-FA: SAME AS CRH(S)
TAX YEARS DUE: 2014
DEED BOOK: 69/265
LEGAL DESCRIPTION: ALL THAT TRACT OF LAND BEING IN THE TOWN OF CHAUNCEY, DODGE COUNTY, GEORGIA, BEING LOTS 5 AND 6, SECTION 45, DESIGNATED AS MAP AND PARCEL 52A 37. 30 BUSH AVENUE
MAP AND PARCEL: E 26 111
CURRENT RECORD HOLDER: PITTS WALLACE F
DEFENDANT IN FI-FA: SAME AS CRH(S)
TAX YEARS DUE: 2013-2014
DEED BOOK: 680/9
LEGAL DESCRIPTION: ALL THAT TRACT OF LAND BEING IN DODGE COUNTY, GEORGIA, AND CONSISTING OF 0.46 ACRES, MORE OR LESS, BEING BLOCK N, DESIGNATED AS MAP AND PARCEL E26-111, OF SUNSET PARK SUBDIVISION. 5811 LEITCH STREET [Full Story »]

Legals July 29, 2015 Page 3
MAP AND PARCEL: E 27 10
CURRENT RECORD HOLDER: WILLIAMS DOROTHY LAMPKIN; WIMBERLY KATHY LAMPKIN; LAMPKIN LONNIE; LAMPKIN WILLIE JAMES; LAMPKIN HELEN; MORRIS MATHRA ANN LAMPKIN
DEFENDANT IN FI-FA: SAME AS CRH(S)
TAX YEARS DUE: 2014
DEED BOOK: 620/80 (PORTION)
LEGAL DESCRIPTION: ALL THAT TRACT OF LAND BEING IN DODGE COUNTY, GEORGIA, AND CONSISTING OF 0.07 ACRES, MORE OR LESS, BEING DESIGNATED AS MAP
AND PARCEL E27 10. 5618 LEE AVENUE
MAP AND PARCEL: E 27 15
CURRENT RECORD HOLDER: WILLIAMS DOROTHY LAMPKIN; WIMBERLY KATHY LAMPKIN; LAMPKIN LONNIE; LAMPKIN WILLIE JAMES; LAMPKIN HELEN; MORRIS MATHRA ANN LAMPKIN
DEFENDANT IN FI-FA: SAME AS CRH(S)
TAX YEARS DUE: 2013-2014
DEED BOOK: 620/80 (PORTION OF)
LEGAL DESCRIPTION: ALL THAT TRACT OF L AND BEING IN DODGE COUNTY, GEORGIA, AND CONSISTING OF 0.90 ACRES, MORE OR LESS, BEING DESIGNATED AS MAP AND PARCEL E27 15. 607 LIVINGSTON AVENUE [Full Story »]
CURRENT RECORD HOLDER: WILLIAMS DOROTHY LAMPKIN; WIMBERLY KATHY LAMPKIN; LAMPKIN LONNIE; LAMPKIN WILLIE JAMES; LAMPKIN HELEN; MORRIS MATHRA ANN LAMPKIN
DEFENDANT IN FI-FA: SAME AS CRH(S)
TAX YEARS DUE: 2014
DEED BOOK: 620/80 (PORTION)
LEGAL DESCRIPTION: ALL THAT TRACT OF LAND BEING IN DODGE COUNTY, GEORGIA, AND CONSISTING OF 0.07 ACRES, MORE OR LESS, BEING DESIGNATED AS MAP
AND PARCEL E27 10. 5618 LEE AVENUE
MAP AND PARCEL: E 27 15
CURRENT RECORD HOLDER: WILLIAMS DOROTHY LAMPKIN; WIMBERLY KATHY LAMPKIN; LAMPKIN LONNIE; LAMPKIN WILLIE JAMES; LAMPKIN HELEN; MORRIS MATHRA ANN LAMPKIN
DEFENDANT IN FI-FA: SAME AS CRH(S)
TAX YEARS DUE: 2013-2014
DEED BOOK: 620/80 (PORTION OF)
LEGAL DESCRIPTION: ALL THAT TRACT OF L AND BEING IN DODGE COUNTY, GEORGIA, AND CONSISTING OF 0.90 ACRES, MORE OR LESS, BEING DESIGNATED AS MAP AND PARCEL E27 15. 607 LIVINGSTON AVENUE [Full Story »]

Packing in the crowds
Donald Trump has Ross Perot pegged, and I’ve been saying this since 1992: Perot was intentionally in the race as a spoiler, probably figuring eight to 10 percent of the vote would put a Democrat in the White House – in this case, Bill Clinton. Perot probably shocked himself with his 19 percent of the vote.
“If Ross Perot didn’t run, you would have never heard of Bill Clinton.”
Donald Trump
Trump is packing in the crowds by saying what middle America is thinking and saying. S.C. Governor Nicki Haley has fallen into the media trap. She’s trying to become Jeb’s V.P. candidate, but Jeb is far from a sure thing. Look for Nicki Haley to lose her next election in South Carolina.
Sarah Palin was ridiculed for warning us of Obamacare death panels. The Wall Street and many Republicans joined in the ridicule. Sarah has been proven right.
Fox News Network’s Jamie Colby did something Hillary Clinton couldn’t do – Jamie passed the D.C. bar exam. Hillary failed it. Jamie has an interesting television show: Strange Inheritance on Fox Business Channel.
Republican conservatives are held responsible for the Charleston murders, since they are associated with the Confederate flag. Liberals are never held responsible for crimes committed by leftists.
Remember the “keep the flag, lose the governor” t-shirts and bumper stickers a few years back when the governor tried to change the state flag? Gov. Zell Miller’s vote totals dropped considerably afterward. He won again, but it was much closer than before. Maybe it’s now time for South Carolina voters to adopt the same tactic.
I’m such an old guy that I can still remember when Virginia was a conservative state.
“The ‘multicultural’ agenda professes equal tolerance for all cultures. But at its core is a fundamental hatred of Christian culture.”
Joseph Sobran Sobran.com
Your culture is negotiable; the other side’s culture is unassailable.
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“If Ross Perot didn’t run, you would have never heard of Bill Clinton.”
Donald Trump
Trump is packing in the crowds by saying what middle America is thinking and saying. S.C. Governor Nicki Haley has fallen into the media trap. She’s trying to become Jeb’s V.P. candidate, but Jeb is far from a sure thing. Look for Nicki Haley to lose her next election in South Carolina.
Sarah Palin was ridiculed for warning us of Obamacare death panels. The Wall Street and many Republicans joined in the ridicule. Sarah has been proven right.
Fox News Network’s Jamie Colby did something Hillary Clinton couldn’t do – Jamie passed the D.C. bar exam. Hillary failed it. Jamie has an interesting television show: Strange Inheritance on Fox Business Channel.
Republican conservatives are held responsible for the Charleston murders, since they are associated with the Confederate flag. Liberals are never held responsible for crimes committed by leftists.
Remember the “keep the flag, lose the governor” t-shirts and bumper stickers a few years back when the governor tried to change the state flag? Gov. Zell Miller’s vote totals dropped considerably afterward. He won again, but it was much closer than before. Maybe it’s now time for South Carolina voters to adopt the same tactic.
I’m such an old guy that I can still remember when Virginia was a conservative state.
“The ‘multicultural’ agenda professes equal tolerance for all cultures. But at its core is a fundamental hatred of Christian culture.”
Joseph Sobran Sobran.com
Your culture is negotiable; the other side’s culture is unassailable.
[Full Story »]

Plainfield man perishes in house fire
A Plainfield man perished in a house fire on Friday, July 24.
Firefighters got a call at approximately 10:26 a.m. to the home of Washington Battle (age 88) at 75 Welcome Friend Church Road in Plainfield. The call was about a house fire with a person still inside the house.
When firemen arrived, they found that Battle was still inside the house that was on fire. Firemen went into the blazing house and brought Battle out.
Battle was transported to Dodge County Hospital by Emergency Medical Services and then flown by helicopter to Doctor’s Burn Center in Augusta. He died of smoke inhalation there on Saturday, July 25, at approximately 2:00 a.m.
The state fire marshal’s office investigated the fire, and it is believed that Battle had gotten up that morning and started cooking on the stove, but then went back to bed and fell asleep.
Firefighters from Plainfield, Eastman, Crossroads and Dodge Correctional Institute responded to the call.
The house was considered a total loss.
Firefighters got a call at approximately 10:26 a.m. to the home of Washington Battle (age 88) at 75 Welcome Friend Church Road in Plainfield. The call was about a house fire with a person still inside the house.
When firemen arrived, they found that Battle was still inside the house that was on fire. Firemen went into the blazing house and brought Battle out.
Battle was transported to Dodge County Hospital by Emergency Medical Services and then flown by helicopter to Doctor’s Burn Center in Augusta. He died of smoke inhalation there on Saturday, July 25, at approximately 2:00 a.m.
The state fire marshal’s office investigated the fire, and it is believed that Battle had gotten up that morning and started cooking on the stove, but then went back to bed and fell asleep.
Firefighters from Plainfield, Eastman, Crossroads and Dodge Correctional Institute responded to the call.
The house was considered a total loss.

Five complete course
On July 20, 2015, Conservation Ranger Allen Mills offered a hunter safety course to Dodge County 4-Hers. Five Dodge County 4-Hers participated in and fully completed the course and received their certification. 4-H Competition Shotgun Team participants must be upcoming seventh through twelfth grade students and must hold a hunter safety certification. The competition BB team consists of students nine years of age through eighth grade. If interested in participating in either of these programs, please contact the Dodge County 4-H office at 478-374-8138.

Letter to the Editor
Dear editor,
This morning, Monday, July 13, in Marietta, I received my copy of last week’s Dodge County News. Always worth getting news from my old hometown, even a couple of days late. Of course, I couldn’t miss the deadline on the front page announcing that the Confederate flag will remain at the courthouse.
When in Eastman, I always like to drive through the courthouse square just to see if that Confederate flag is still up. “Dodge County ain’t folding up,” I tell myself with a smile.
It is certainly worthwhile to remember and study the history of the war between the States. Was it about states’ rights, or was it about slavery? Maybe it was some of both. I can’t read about Picket’s charge at Gettysburg without thinking to myself, “Why didn’t Lee just regroup and march around the Union’s well fortified positions on Cemetery Ridge and save his army for a more favorable moment?”
But it was for the best that the South did not prevail in that sad war. How effective would a split and divided USA have been in saving Europe in 1918 and 1941? How could we have countered the Soviet Union unconnected and separate?
[Full Story »]
This morning, Monday, July 13, in Marietta, I received my copy of last week’s Dodge County News. Always worth getting news from my old hometown, even a couple of days late. Of course, I couldn’t miss the deadline on the front page announcing that the Confederate flag will remain at the courthouse.
When in Eastman, I always like to drive through the courthouse square just to see if that Confederate flag is still up. “Dodge County ain’t folding up,” I tell myself with a smile.
It is certainly worthwhile to remember and study the history of the war between the States. Was it about states’ rights, or was it about slavery? Maybe it was some of both. I can’t read about Picket’s charge at Gettysburg without thinking to myself, “Why didn’t Lee just regroup and march around the Union’s well fortified positions on Cemetery Ridge and save his army for a more favorable moment?”
But it was for the best that the South did not prevail in that sad war. How effective would a split and divided USA have been in saving Europe in 1918 and 1941? How could we have countered the Soviet Union unconnected and separate?
[Full Story »]

Letter to the Editor
Dear editor,
From the beginning of the two-party systems, the Democratic Party has waged war on democracy. The beginning of its experiment in the social engineering of our societies led our people to declare war against the government. Today, the DNC is feasting upon Donald Trump’s entry into the race for the presidency by criticizing his hair! Meanwhile, the DNC has wrapped its political arms around Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. Could someone please explain to this humble servant how an avowed communist/socialist would choose to ally himself to a so-called democratic political body? Why would Bernie abandon his socialist party to be tainted by the venom spewed by DNC against the “tyranny of the majority?” Well, could the motive be that the tyranny of the majority is only useful when the majority is in your party? As our world becomes more and more melanin aware, politicians become more and more concerned with pandering to the “melanites” and the power of the “melanite” majority. And thus begins the ensuing tyranny of the “new majority,” which will usher in another era of political turmoil.
From the beginning of the two-party system, the “democratic” party has held both houses of the government as well as the office of the president for a total period of 60+ years! On the other hand, the “republican” party has held both houses and the presidency for a total of six plus years. If we are content with this disproportionate control of power and the results of being “engineered” by one party’s socialist leanings, then we deserve the horrible outcomes that have befallen our nation and our allies. Sixty plus years of “democrat” control, and what have we got?
The solution is obscured behind the smooth rhetoric of the POTUS – rhetoric that preaches to the people; that for the last six years no additional illegals arrived in the U.S. Every year of POTUS’s presidency, the same figure has been fed to us. Imagine, over six years of uncontrolled immigration and the 11 million figure remains as an undisputed “fact” by the president. Please!
[Full Story »]
From the beginning of the two-party systems, the Democratic Party has waged war on democracy. The beginning of its experiment in the social engineering of our societies led our people to declare war against the government. Today, the DNC is feasting upon Donald Trump’s entry into the race for the presidency by criticizing his hair! Meanwhile, the DNC has wrapped its political arms around Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. Could someone please explain to this humble servant how an avowed communist/socialist would choose to ally himself to a so-called democratic political body? Why would Bernie abandon his socialist party to be tainted by the venom spewed by DNC against the “tyranny of the majority?” Well, could the motive be that the tyranny of the majority is only useful when the majority is in your party? As our world becomes more and more melanin aware, politicians become more and more concerned with pandering to the “melanites” and the power of the “melanite” majority. And thus begins the ensuing tyranny of the “new majority,” which will usher in another era of political turmoil.
From the beginning of the two-party system, the “democratic” party has held both houses of the government as well as the office of the president for a total period of 60+ years! On the other hand, the “republican” party has held both houses and the presidency for a total of six plus years. If we are content with this disproportionate control of power and the results of being “engineered” by one party’s socialist leanings, then we deserve the horrible outcomes that have befallen our nation and our allies. Sixty plus years of “democrat” control, and what have we got?
The solution is obscured behind the smooth rhetoric of the POTUS – rhetoric that preaches to the people; that for the last six years no additional illegals arrived in the U.S. Every year of POTUS’s presidency, the same figure has been fed to us. Imagine, over six years of uncontrolled immigration and the 11 million figure remains as an undisputed “fact” by the president. Please!
[Full Story »]
Tony Allin Lann
Age: 71
Died: Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Arrangements: Stokes-Southerland Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
Died: Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Arrangements: Stokes-Southerland Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
Lillian Bray
Age: 83
Died: Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Arrangements: A.B. Coleman Mortuary, Inc. of Jacksonville, Florida had charge of arrangements.
Died: Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Arrangements: A.B. Coleman Mortuary, Inc. of Jacksonville, Florida had charge of arrangements.

More water lines will be relocated in City of Eastman
By Taelor Rye
The Eastman city council moved to approve the relocation of many water lines to right-of-ways at the Eastman city council meeting on July 27.
The water lines of interest lie under the following streets in the neighborhood of Bacon Heights: Forest Avenue, Bacon Avenue, Harrison Street, Karen Drive and Russell Avenue.
City council member Milton Johnson stated, “I think it’s a smart move to do. We’re concentrating all our efforts in getting one area taken care of… I think it’s intelligent to take care of it all at one time.”
The city council voted to allow Graham & Studstill to relocate the lines as part of a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG). Graham & Studstill was recently chosen to relocate lines on a stretch of Park Street from 9th Avenue to 10th Avenue.
The CDBG project is a subset of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). According to HUD, the purpose of CDBG is to “develop and preserve decent affordable housing, to provide services to the most vulnerable in our communities, and to create and retain jobs.”
Eastman city manager Bea Edge stated that bidding the project out would likely take a month or so, so allowing Graham & Studstill – which is currently working on projects with the city – to complete the project was more time-feasible. The price for the project is set at $181,382.00.
Additional funding for the project will come from the Special-Purpose Local-Option Sales Tax (SPLOST).
City council member Raymond Mullis said, “I’m glad to see that started, to tell you the truth.”
Another project that the city approved at the July 27 meeting was for work on the well on Legion Drive.
Edge stated, “This is a project that we need to do, and we think it was affected by the lightning.”
Recalling his discovery, Terry Hardeman – who is over Eastman’s wells and pumps – explained, “The Legion Drive well was off, so I started checking everything, and the in-line fuses coming from the power pole were all blown apart. I took the starters apart, [and] the contacts in the starters were all burnt up.” [Full Story »]
The Eastman city council moved to approve the relocation of many water lines to right-of-ways at the Eastman city council meeting on July 27.
The water lines of interest lie under the following streets in the neighborhood of Bacon Heights: Forest Avenue, Bacon Avenue, Harrison Street, Karen Drive and Russell Avenue.
City council member Milton Johnson stated, “I think it’s a smart move to do. We’re concentrating all our efforts in getting one area taken care of… I think it’s intelligent to take care of it all at one time.”
The city council voted to allow Graham & Studstill to relocate the lines as part of a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG). Graham & Studstill was recently chosen to relocate lines on a stretch of Park Street from 9th Avenue to 10th Avenue.
The CDBG project is a subset of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). According to HUD, the purpose of CDBG is to “develop and preserve decent affordable housing, to provide services to the most vulnerable in our communities, and to create and retain jobs.”
Eastman city manager Bea Edge stated that bidding the project out would likely take a month or so, so allowing Graham & Studstill – which is currently working on projects with the city – to complete the project was more time-feasible. The price for the project is set at $181,382.00.
Additional funding for the project will come from the Special-Purpose Local-Option Sales Tax (SPLOST).
City council member Raymond Mullis said, “I’m glad to see that started, to tell you the truth.”
Another project that the city approved at the July 27 meeting was for work on the well on Legion Drive.
Edge stated, “This is a project that we need to do, and we think it was affected by the lightning.”
Recalling his discovery, Terry Hardeman – who is over Eastman’s wells and pumps – explained, “The Legion Drive well was off, so I started checking everything, and the in-line fuses coming from the power pole were all blown apart. I took the starters apart, [and] the contacts in the starters were all burnt up.” [Full Story »]
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