The Dodge County News

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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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.

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!
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