The Dodge County News

Age: 43

Died: Sunday, February 28, 2016

Arrangements: Hardy-Towns Funeral Home of Eastman is in charge of arrangements.

1004 CONDEMNATIONS

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NO­TICE OF SEI­ZURE OF PER­SON­AL PROP­ER­TY VALUED AT LESS THAN $25,000.00
Pur­su­ant to O.C.G.A. § 16-13-49 (n), any par­ty claim­ing an in­ter­est in the fol­low­ing prop­er­ty is here­by no­ti­fied that on Janu­ary 26, 2016, said prop­er­ty was seized by the un­der­signed agen­cy in Dodge Coun­ty, Geor­gia:
ONE THOU­SAND FOUR
HUNDRED THIR­TY SIX
DOL­LARS ($1436.00) IN UNIT­ED STATES CUR­REN­CY
You are fur­ther no­ti­fied that you may file a claim with­in (30) days of the sec­ond pub­li­ca­tion of this no­tice of sei­zure by send­ing a claim com­ply­ing with the re­quire­ments of O.C.G.A. § 16-13-49 to the seiz­ing law en­force­ment agen­cy and to the dis­trict at­tor­ney by cer­ti­fied mail, re­turn re­ceipt re­quest­ed.
This 17th day of Fe­bru­ary, 2016
CHRIS­TO­PHER C. GOR­DON
As­sis­tant Dis­trict At­tor­ney
Oco­nee Ju­di­cial Cir­cuit
P.O. Box 1027
5401 An­son Ave­nue, Room 200
East­man, GA 31023
Seiz­ing Agen­cy:
Dan­iel Gon­za­lez
Oco­nee Drug Task Force
327 Pearl Bates Ave­nue
East­man, GA 31023
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1015 NAME CHANGE

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IN THE SU­PE­RI­OR COURT OF DODGE COUN­TY
STATE OF GEOR­GIA
IN RE: MICHAEL JO­SEPH WILL­ING
CIVIL AC­TION FILE NUMBER: 16V-7768
NO­TICE OF PE­TI­TION TO CHANGE NAME
No­tice is here­by given that MAR­IA G. LOW­RY filed a pe­ti­tion in the Su­pe­ri­or Court of Dodge Coun­ty on Fe­bru­ary 12, 2016, pray­ing for the name of her Minor Son MICHAEL JO­SEPH WILL­ING to be changed to MICHAEL JO­SEPH LOW­RY. No­tice is here­by given to all in­ter­est­ed or af­fect­ed per­sons to ap­pear in said Court and file ob­jec­tions to such name change. Ob­jec­tions must be filed with­in thir­ty (30) days if the fil­ing of said pe­ti­tion.
This the 7th day of Fe­bru­ary, 2016.
JO­SEPH I. MARCH­ANT
At­tor­ney At Law
Post Of­fice Box 4218
East­man, Geor­gia 31023
Tel­e­phone: 478-374-1505 [Full Story »] 

Age: 78

Died: Thursday, February 18, 2016

Arrangements: Watson-Hunt Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

The Dodge County Grand Jury convened in February and returned the following indictments:
Brandon Maurice Cockrell was indicted on one count felony burglary first degree.
Shannon Floyd was indicted on one count felony burglary first degree.
Lisa Dawn Brown was indicted on one count felony fraud in obtain possession of controlled substance.
Malcolm Lamar Lockett was indicted on one count felony possession of cocaine.
Christopher Jason Wiggins was indicated on one count felony theft by taking.
Eddie Jackson was indicted on one count felony aggravated assault.
Joshua Kentay Bray was indicted on one count felony terroristic threats and acts and one count misdemeanor harassing phone calls.
Jimmy Recardo Dupree was indicted on one count felony theft by taking.
Catherine Lynch was indicted on one count felony theft by taking.
Pervis Rashad Montford was indicted on one count felony possession of cocaine with intent to distribute.
Norris Showers was indicted on one count felony possession of cocaine with intent to distribute.
Robbie Vance Fordham was indicted on two counts felony sale of cocaine.
Melissa Donne Sue Dykes was indicted on one count felony receipt/possession or transfer of firearm by convicted felon. [Full Story »] 

Dear editor,
The political climate and confluence of current events in this past decade sure has caused a metamorphosis of morals, common sense and down right stupidity of the American populace.
In 2008, a plurality of the voters in America overwhelmingly wanted a change based on a man’s skin color and banal platitudes by an individual named Barrack Husain Obama. His background and speeches clearly showed he was a Marxist community organizer with a degree of rabblement, and the American people knew this and still elected this fraud not once, but twice. And now the United Sates of America is in a spiral collapse of immoral decay from human depravity of homosexuality brought on by Obama and his administration social petri dish experiment via the judicial courts bought by Obama’s jurist appointments to the supreme courts.
Fast forward to 2016, with Obama’s former secretary of state Hillary Clinton now running for a “Obama third term” essentially, with the same political ideology and cretinism in human behavior as the fraud in chief (Obama). She has been proven in criminal congressional hearings of her involvement in leaking classified information thru Internet, and coupled as a serial liar to the truthfulness of FBI investigations. And finally, Clinton seems to border on psychosis of schizophrenia of a complete mental breakdown, where she was giving a political speech last week, and then seemed to morph herself into a dog by barking. Has the country gone to the dogs? Pun very much intended, really look no further than American voter who has a (“D”) next to their name on that question my friends.  
Yet, the democratic voters by the preponderance in numbers are right back on the same path as they did in 2008. Vote with their own self-interest of greed, political ideology, selfishness and vacuity in brains. Bottom line, (MORONS)!
Okay, republican conservative voter, don’t do as you did in 2012, seven million of you and sit on your butt, and NOT vote. Send this Yankee carpetbagger back to New York to keep Bill away from Monica (GO-VOTE)!
TSGT. Joseph Bryan, U.S.A.F. Ret

By Jessie Pruett

Dodge County High School (DCHS) opened their baseball season against non-region rival Bleckley County on February 16. These games never disappoint and this was no exception. 
The Indians got down three runs early in the game, but fought back to tie the game at three in the middle innings. Bleckley would add a fourth run late in the game and Dodge came close a couple of times, but just couldn’t manage to get the tying run across. 
Craig Barton got the pitching start for the Indians and pitched a strong season opener. Barton went 5 and 1/3 innings striking out four and walking four. He gave up three runs to the Royals. 
Tyler Pruett came on in relief pitching 1 and 2/3 innings allowing one run, striking out three, and allowing no walks. 
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Recently, two wrestlers representing Dodge County traveled to Lassister High School in Marietta to compete in the USA Wrestling Georgia Girls State Championships and the USA Wrestling Georgia Freshman State Championships.
Competing in the girls competition in her first ever wrestling tournament, Ashlyn Grauberger represented Dodge County Wrestling Club with a first place finish in the third to fifth grade 70-pound division. She became our first ever girls’ state champion and the only girl from Dodge County to compete. [Full Story »] 

Age: 56

Died: Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Arrangements: Hamilton Burch Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Age: 61

Died: Sunday, February 21, 2016

Arrangements: Hardy-Towns Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.