Age: 44
Died: Monday, February 8, 2016
Arrangements: Stokes-Southerland Funeral Home of Eastman has charge of arrangements.
Entries from February 2016
Needham Lewis "N.L." Sheffield
Age: 89
Died: Monday, February 8, 2016
Arrangements: Stokes-Southerland Funeral Home of Eastman has charge of arrangements.
Died: Monday, February 8, 2016
Arrangements: Stokes-Southerland Funeral Home of Eastman has charge of arrangements.
Hazel Olean Howard Scarborough
Age: 90
Died: Sunday, February 7, 2016
Arrangements: Stokes-Southerland Funeral Home of Eastman has charge of arrangements.
Died: Sunday, February 7, 2016
Arrangements: Stokes-Southerland Funeral Home of Eastman has charge of arrangements.
Clarence Eugene "Gene" Smith
Age: 70
Died: Saturday, February 6, 2016
Arrangements: Stokes-Southerland Funeral Home of Eastman has charge of arrangements.
Died: Saturday, February 6, 2016
Arrangements: Stokes-Southerland Funeral Home of Eastman has charge of arrangements.
Jewel Thompson Yearty
Age: 82
Died: Friday, February 5, 2016
Arrangements: Mathis Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Died: Friday, February 5, 2016
Arrangements: Mathis Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Rufus Coleman
Age: 85
Died: Thursday, February 4, 2016
Arrangements: Stokes-Southerland Funeral Home of Eastman has charge of arrangements.
Died: Thursday, February 4, 2016
Arrangements: Stokes-Southerland Funeral Home of Eastman has charge of arrangements.
Reverend Lamar Peacock
Age: 85
Died: Saturday, January 30, 2016
Arrangements: Mathis Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Died: Saturday, January 30, 2016
Arrangements: Mathis Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Police and sheriff’s departments continue search for individuals breaking into cars
The Eastman Police Department, along with the Dodge County Sheriff’s Department continues to receive reports of cars being broken into. Please be on the lookout for any suspicious subjects in your neighborhoods, and if you see anyone, please call 911 immediately.
Please make sure that all items are taken out of your vehicles, ensuring nothing of value is left inside.
The Eastman Police Department made the following arrests the week of January 26 through February 2, 2016. [Full Story »]
Please make sure that all items are taken out of your vehicles, ensuring nothing of value is left inside.
The Eastman Police Department made the following arrests the week of January 26 through February 2, 2016. [Full Story »]

Legals February 3, 2016
1006 CORPORATIONS/BUSINESS
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NOTICE OF INTENT TO INCORPORATE
Notice is given that the Articles of Organization in which will incorporate HEWETT PROPERTIES, LLC will be delivered to the Secretary of State for filing in accordance with the Georgia Business Corporation Code. The initial registered office of the corporation will be located at 1447 OLD REVIE RD., CHESTER, GA 31012 and the initial registered agent at such address is JOE HEWETT.
1007 DEBTORS AND CREDITORS
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NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS
STATE OF GEORGIA
COUNTY OF HOUSTON
All creditors of the Estate of BERTA W. COURSEY, Estate number P15-8950, deceased, late of Dodge County, Georgia are hereby notified to render their demands by filing same with the Probate Court of Dodge County, Anson Avenue, Eastman, GA 31023, according to law, and all persons indebted to said Estate are required to make immediate payment to the undersigned.
This the 11th day of January 2016.
SARAH RIEDEL
Administrator
316 Oak Street
Eastman, GA 31023 [Full Story »]
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NOTICE OF INTENT TO INCORPORATE
Notice is given that the Articles of Organization in which will incorporate HEWETT PROPERTIES, LLC will be delivered to the Secretary of State for filing in accordance with the Georgia Business Corporation Code. The initial registered office of the corporation will be located at 1447 OLD REVIE RD., CHESTER, GA 31012 and the initial registered agent at such address is JOE HEWETT.
1007 DEBTORS AND CREDITORS
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NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS
STATE OF GEORGIA
COUNTY OF HOUSTON
All creditors of the Estate of BERTA W. COURSEY, Estate number P15-8950, deceased, late of Dodge County, Georgia are hereby notified to render their demands by filing same with the Probate Court of Dodge County, Anson Avenue, Eastman, GA 31023, according to law, and all persons indebted to said Estate are required to make immediate payment to the undersigned.
This the 11th day of January 2016.
SARAH RIEDEL
Administrator
316 Oak Street
Eastman, GA 31023 [Full Story »]

Legals January 27, 2016 Page 1
1006 CORPORATIONS/BUSINESS
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NOTICE OF INTENT TO INCORPORATE
Notice is given that the Articles of Organization in which will incorporate HEWETT PROPERTIES, LLC will be delivered to the Secretary of State for filing in accordance with the Georgia Business Corporation Code. The initial registered office of the corporation will be located at 1447 OLD REVIE RD., CHESTER, GA 31012 and the initial registered agent at such address is JOE HEWETT.
1007 DEBTORS AND CREDITORS
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS
All creditors of the Estate of LEONARD JACK KING, 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 me.
This the 21st day of December, 2015.
MICHAEL JAMES KING
Administrator,
Estate of LEONARD JACK KING
5709 Antler Trail
Lakeland, FL 33811
THE CANNON LAW FIRM, LLC
P.O. Box 270
McRae, GA 31055
229-868-6065
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NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS
STATE OF GEORGIA
COUNTY OF HOUSTON
All creditors of the Estate of BERTA W. COURSEY, Estate number P15-8950, deceased, late of Dodge County, Georgia are hereby notified to render their demands by filing same with the Probate Court of Dodge County, Anson Avenue, Eastman, GA 31023, according to law, and all persons indebted to said Estate are required to make immediate payment to the undersigned.
This the 11th day of January 2016.
SARAH RIEDEL
Administrator
316 Oak Street
Eastman, GA 3102 [Full Story »]
gpn 06
NOTICE OF INTENT TO INCORPORATE
Notice is given that the Articles of Organization in which will incorporate HEWETT PROPERTIES, LLC will be delivered to the Secretary of State for filing in accordance with the Georgia Business Corporation Code. The initial registered office of the corporation will be located at 1447 OLD REVIE RD., CHESTER, GA 31012 and the initial registered agent at such address is JOE HEWETT.
1007 DEBTORS AND CREDITORS
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBTORS
All creditors of the Estate of LEONARD JACK KING, 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 me.
This the 21st day of December, 2015.
MICHAEL JAMES KING
Administrator,
Estate of LEONARD JACK KING
5709 Antler Trail
Lakeland, FL 33811
THE CANNON LAW FIRM, LLC
P.O. Box 270
McRae, GA 31055
229-868-6065
gpn 07
NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS
STATE OF GEORGIA
COUNTY OF HOUSTON
All creditors of the Estate of BERTA W. COURSEY, Estate number P15-8950, deceased, late of Dodge County, Georgia are hereby notified to render their demands by filing same with the Probate Court of Dodge County, Anson Avenue, Eastman, GA 31023, according to law, and all persons indebted to said Estate are required to make immediate payment to the undersigned.
This the 11th day of January 2016.
SARAH RIEDEL
Administrator
316 Oak Street
Eastman, GA 3102 [Full Story »]

Legals January 27, 2016 Page 2
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NOTICE OF SALE UNDER POWER
STATE OF GEORGIA
COUNTY OF DODGE
Under and by virtue of the power of sale (the “Power of Sale”) contained in that certain Deed to Secure Debt (the “Security Deed”) given by SS&M REALTY, INC. to COLONY BANK OF DODGE COUNTY dated October 23, 2007, recorded in Deed Book 589, Page 147, Clerk’s Office, Dodge Superior Court conveying the after-described property, through the open-end provisions therein, to secure that certain note from SS&M REALTY, INC. to COLONY BANK dated November 20, 2012 (the “Note”) in the original principal amount of Seventy Thousand Two Hundred Sixty and 68/100 Dollars ($70,260.68), with interest thereon as set forth therein, Colony Bank being the current holder thereof, there will be a sale at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash before the courthouse door of Dodge County, Georgia, within the legal hours of sale on the first Tuesday of February, 2016, the following described property (the “Property”):
ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND LYING AND BEING IN LAND LOT NUMBER 7 IN THE 15TH LAND DISTRICT OF DODGE COUNTY, GEORGIA, IN THE CITY OF EASTMAN, AND BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: THE BEGINNING POINT IS THE POINT OF INTERSECTION OF THE SOUTHWESTERN RIGHT-OF-WAY OF UNITED STATES HIGHWAY NUMBER 341 WITH THE NORTHWESTERN RIGHT-OF-WAY OF PINE HAVEN DRIVE, AND FROM SAID BEGINNING POINT AS THUS ESTABLISHED, RUNNING THENCE NORTH 44 DEGREES 28 MINUTES WEST FOR A DISTANCE OF 111.51 FEET TO THE SOUTHEAST BOUNDARY OF LANDS NOW OR FORMERLY OWNED BY R. J. TAYLOR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, INC., RUNNING THENCE SOUTH 46 DEGREES 00 MINUTES WEST FOR A DISTANCE OF 118.50 FEET, RUNNING THENCE SOUTH 43 DEGREES 00 MINUTES WEST FOR A DISTANCE OF 116.05 FEET TO SAID NORTHWESTERN RIGHT-OF-WAY OF PINE HAVEN DRIVE, AND RUNNING THENCE ALONG SAID RIGHT-OF-WAY NORTH 46 DEGREES 00 MINUTES EAST FOR A DISTANCE OF 120.80 FEET TO BEGINNING POINT; SAID TRACT BOUNDED NOW OR FORMERLY ON THE NORTHEAST BY SAID SOUTHWESTERN RIGHT-OF-WAY OF UNITED STATES HIGHWAY NUMBER 341, ON THE SOUTHEAST BY SAID NORTHWESTERN RIGHT-OF-WAY OF PINE HAVEN DRIVE, ON THE SOUTHWEST BY LANDS OF KECIA SMITH DAVIDSON AND OTHER LANDS, AND ON THE NORTHWEST BY LANDS OF R. J. TAYLOR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, INC.
SUBJECT TO EXISTING EASEMENTS FOR PUBLIC ROADS AND UTILITIES.
The debts secured by said Security Deed have been and are hereby declared due because of, among other possible events of default, failure to pay the indebtedness as and when due and in the manner provided in the Note and Security Deed. The debt remaining in default, this sale will be made for the purpose of paying same and, additionally, all expenses of this sale, as provided in the Security deed and by law, including without limitation attorney fees (the statutory notice of intent to collect attorney fees having been served).
Said Property will be sold subject to any outstanding ad valorem taxes (including taxes that are a lien, but not yet due and payable); matters that may be disclosed by an accurate survey and/or inspection of the property; assessments, liens, encumbrances, zoning ordinances, restrictions, covenants; and matters of record superior to the Security Deed.
Additionally, this sale will be conducted subject to (1) confirmation that the sale is not prohibited under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and (2) final confirmation and audit of the status of the loans with the holder of the Security Deed.
Notice to the debtor as required by O.C.G.A. § 44-14-162.2 has been given. Please note that COLONY BANK, located at the business address of 115 South Grant Street, Fitzgerald, Georgia 31750, is the entity that has the full authority to negotiate, amend or modify the terms of the loan documents.
Colony Bank can be contacted through the following representative: MICHAEL N. WHITE, ESQ., JAMES-BATES-BRANNAN-GROOVER-LLP, 231 RIVERSIDE DRIVE, MACON, GEORGIA, 31201; TEL: (478) 742-4280.
COLONY BANK, successor by merger to COLONY BANK OF DODGE COUNTY,
as Attorney-in-Fact for
SS&M REALTY, INC.
MICHAEL N. WHITE, ESQ.
JAMES-BATES-BRANNAN-
GROOVER-LLP
231 Riverside Drive
P.O. Box 4283
Macon, Georgia 31208-4283
This Law Firm is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose. [Full Story »]
NOTICE OF SALE UNDER POWER
STATE OF GEORGIA
COUNTY OF DODGE
Under and by virtue of the power of sale (the “Power of Sale”) contained in that certain Deed to Secure Debt (the “Security Deed”) given by SS&M REALTY, INC. to COLONY BANK OF DODGE COUNTY dated October 23, 2007, recorded in Deed Book 589, Page 147, Clerk’s Office, Dodge Superior Court conveying the after-described property, through the open-end provisions therein, to secure that certain note from SS&M REALTY, INC. to COLONY BANK dated November 20, 2012 (the “Note”) in the original principal amount of Seventy Thousand Two Hundred Sixty and 68/100 Dollars ($70,260.68), with interest thereon as set forth therein, Colony Bank being the current holder thereof, there will be a sale at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash before the courthouse door of Dodge County, Georgia, within the legal hours of sale on the first Tuesday of February, 2016, the following described property (the “Property”):
ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND LYING AND BEING IN LAND LOT NUMBER 7 IN THE 15TH LAND DISTRICT OF DODGE COUNTY, GEORGIA, IN THE CITY OF EASTMAN, AND BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: THE BEGINNING POINT IS THE POINT OF INTERSECTION OF THE SOUTHWESTERN RIGHT-OF-WAY OF UNITED STATES HIGHWAY NUMBER 341 WITH THE NORTHWESTERN RIGHT-OF-WAY OF PINE HAVEN DRIVE, AND FROM SAID BEGINNING POINT AS THUS ESTABLISHED, RUNNING THENCE NORTH 44 DEGREES 28 MINUTES WEST FOR A DISTANCE OF 111.51 FEET TO THE SOUTHEAST BOUNDARY OF LANDS NOW OR FORMERLY OWNED BY R. J. TAYLOR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, INC., RUNNING THENCE SOUTH 46 DEGREES 00 MINUTES WEST FOR A DISTANCE OF 118.50 FEET, RUNNING THENCE SOUTH 43 DEGREES 00 MINUTES WEST FOR A DISTANCE OF 116.05 FEET TO SAID NORTHWESTERN RIGHT-OF-WAY OF PINE HAVEN DRIVE, AND RUNNING THENCE ALONG SAID RIGHT-OF-WAY NORTH 46 DEGREES 00 MINUTES EAST FOR A DISTANCE OF 120.80 FEET TO BEGINNING POINT; SAID TRACT BOUNDED NOW OR FORMERLY ON THE NORTHEAST BY SAID SOUTHWESTERN RIGHT-OF-WAY OF UNITED STATES HIGHWAY NUMBER 341, ON THE SOUTHEAST BY SAID NORTHWESTERN RIGHT-OF-WAY OF PINE HAVEN DRIVE, ON THE SOUTHWEST BY LANDS OF KECIA SMITH DAVIDSON AND OTHER LANDS, AND ON THE NORTHWEST BY LANDS OF R. J. TAYLOR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, INC.
SUBJECT TO EXISTING EASEMENTS FOR PUBLIC ROADS AND UTILITIES.
The debts secured by said Security Deed have been and are hereby declared due because of, among other possible events of default, failure to pay the indebtedness as and when due and in the manner provided in the Note and Security Deed. The debt remaining in default, this sale will be made for the purpose of paying same and, additionally, all expenses of this sale, as provided in the Security deed and by law, including without limitation attorney fees (the statutory notice of intent to collect attorney fees having been served).
Said Property will be sold subject to any outstanding ad valorem taxes (including taxes that are a lien, but not yet due and payable); matters that may be disclosed by an accurate survey and/or inspection of the property; assessments, liens, encumbrances, zoning ordinances, restrictions, covenants; and matters of record superior to the Security Deed.
Additionally, this sale will be conducted subject to (1) confirmation that the sale is not prohibited under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and (2) final confirmation and audit of the status of the loans with the holder of the Security Deed.
Notice to the debtor as required by O.C.G.A. § 44-14-162.2 has been given. Please note that COLONY BANK, located at the business address of 115 South Grant Street, Fitzgerald, Georgia 31750, is the entity that has the full authority to negotiate, amend or modify the terms of the loan documents.
Colony Bank can be contacted through the following representative: MICHAEL N. WHITE, ESQ., JAMES-BATES-BRANNAN-GROOVER-LLP, 231 RIVERSIDE DRIVE, MACON, GEORGIA, 31201; TEL: (478) 742-4280.
COLONY BANK, successor by merger to COLONY BANK OF DODGE COUNTY,
as Attorney-in-Fact for
SS&M REALTY, INC.
MICHAEL N. WHITE, ESQ.
JAMES-BATES-BRANNAN-
GROOVER-LLP
231 Riverside Drive
P.O. Box 4283
Macon, Georgia 31208-4283
This Law Firm is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose. [Full Story »]

The battle
At the moment, the Republican establishment is relevant to the presidential-nomination battle only as an epithet.
The fight for the Republican nomination isn’t so much a vicious brawl between the grass roots and the establishment as it is a bitter struggle between traditional conservatism and populism that few could have foreseen.
Conservatism has always had a populist element, encapsulated by the oft-quoted William F. Buckley Jr. line that he would rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book than by the Harvard faculty. But the populism was tethered to, and in the service of, an ideology of limited-government constitutionalism.
The fight between Ted Cruz and Donald Trump is over whether that connection will continue to exist, and whether the conservatism (as represented by Cruz) or the populism (as represented by Trump) will be ascendant. Cruz did all he could as long as possible to accommodate Trump, but now that the fight between them is out in the open, the differences are particularly stark.
Cruz is a rigorous constitutionalist. He’s devoted much of his career to defending the Constitution and has argued numerous cases before the Supreme Court. Trump has certainly heard of the Constitution, but he may know even less about it than he knows about the Bible. [Full Story »]
The fight for the Republican nomination isn’t so much a vicious brawl between the grass roots and the establishment as it is a bitter struggle between traditional conservatism and populism that few could have foreseen.
Conservatism has always had a populist element, encapsulated by the oft-quoted William F. Buckley Jr. line that he would rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book than by the Harvard faculty. But the populism was tethered to, and in the service of, an ideology of limited-government constitutionalism.
The fight between Ted Cruz and Donald Trump is over whether that connection will continue to exist, and whether the conservatism (as represented by Cruz) or the populism (as represented by Trump) will be ascendant. Cruz did all he could as long as possible to accommodate Trump, but now that the fight between them is out in the open, the differences are particularly stark.
Cruz is a rigorous constitutionalist. He’s devoted much of his career to defending the Constitution and has argued numerous cases before the Supreme Court. Trump has certainly heard of the Constitution, but he may know even less about it than he knows about the Bible. [Full Story »]
Carrie Salter
Age: 91
Died: Friday, January 22, 2016
Arrangements: Rollins Funeral Home, Inc. was in charge of arrangements.
Died: Friday, January 22, 2016
Arrangements: Rollins Funeral Home, Inc. was in charge of arrangements.
Lenton "Tre'" Swint III
Age: 21
Died: Monday, January 25, 2016
Arrangements: Rollins Funeral Home, Inc. was in charge of arrangements.
Died: Monday, January 25, 2016
Arrangements: Rollins Funeral Home, Inc. was in charge of arrangements.

Train/car collision ends in fatality
An Eastman woman died after the car she was driving, a 2013 Nissan Rogue, hit a train on Monday, February 1. Magdalene “Maggie” Pruett, age 72, of Eastman, was driving west on Wilson Woodard Road and the train was traveling north on the railroad tracks. Pruett failed to yield the right of way to the train at the crossing. Her vehicle traveled onto the railroad tracks and the train struck Pruett’s car in the driver’s side door. After the impact, the train dragged the vehicle approximately 1,763 feet before coming to a control rest.
The crossing does not have railroad crossing arm bars but there are railroad crossing signs on the westbound and southbound side, approximately 13 feet from the tracks and the signs are clearly visible before the crossing. [Full Story »]
The crossing does not have railroad crossing arm bars but there are railroad crossing signs on the westbound and southbound side, approximately 13 feet from the tracks and the signs are clearly visible before the crossing. [Full Story »]
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