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Age: 56

Died: Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Arrangements: Stokes-Southerland Funeral Home of Eastman has charge of arrangements.

Since our taxes are too low here, Vice Plagiarist Joe Biden joined up with those calling for a “Global Minimum Tax.” You can never pay enough in taxes. Three Senators, including one RINO (Republican In Name Only) Lindsey Graham, proposed a “carbon tax” on gasoline in March 2010. Senators Lindsey Graham, Joe Lieberman and John Kerry came up with this idiotic idea, with an initial tax (sure to go up from there) of 20 cents per gallon. Lindsey reached across the aisle to help his liberal Democrat pals. What did gasoline cost under G.W. Bush, $1.78?
Egypt gets $1.3 billion per year from us in foreign aid, or $1.3 X 1,000 X 1,000,000. That’s big bucks. It’s $3,561,644 per day. Egypt openly hates the USA, but not enough to turn down our generosity. RINO Arlen Specter proposed “power sharing” with his Democrat pals. A few years later Snarlin’ Arlen re-switched parties and again became a Democrat in 2009, trying to hang on to his Senate seat. He lost anyway. He died in 2012.
I didn’t realize this - states set their own tax rates on lottery winnings, apparently not in line with normal state tax rates. You’re better off to win in a state with no income tax, of course. Tennessee, Texas and Florida come to mind.
“Liberals depend on stupid.”
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Dear editor,
As much as we want to complain about things, we’ve got it so much better than so many others. A couple of months ago I was selected by Samaritan’s Purse to join a team of volunteers going to Rwanda to hand out Operation Christmas Child (OCC) shoe boxes to the children over there. What a life-changing experience that was for me. Homes without water or electricity; children without shoes, without school supplies, without hygiene items, without toys, without candy and yet, these children were happy. Of course, they were much happier after they received the gift-filled shoeboxes that many, like you, packed!

It’s very humbling when a child gets excited over receiving wooden pencils or a pad of paper. At one of our distribution stops we were told that the children each receive one wooden pencil at the beginning of the school year and they have to make it last because there might not be another one. How many pencils do we throw away? We all need remember that someone else is praying for the things that we take for granted. [Full Story »] 

Former Dodge County Board of Commissioner Carl Hosford addressed the current board of commissioners about widening the Chester Highway at their meeting on Monday. July 14.

Hosford told the commissioners that the highway was “a disaster waiting to happen”. He explained that when a school bus meets a log truck or 18-wheeler, the buses have to move off on the shoulder of the road to avoid hitting trucks.

Hosford told the commissioners he had been told by interim county manager Bobby Peacock the highway was on the list to be resurfaced using Transportation Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (TSPLOST) funds this year.

Hosford requested that commissioners use money from the local Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) for road improvement to widen the Chester Highway 12 inches to 18 inches on both sides.
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The following arrests were reported by the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office for the dates June 1, 2014 thru June 10, 2014.

Steven Patterson – 6/3/14 – possession of marijuana with intent to distribute (one count).

Brandon Pearce – 6/3/14 – possession of marijuana with intent to distribute (one count).

Katherine Gaskins – 6/3/14 – possession of marijuana with intent to distribute (one count).

Otis Cross – 6/3/14 – manufacturing marijuana (one count).

Kayla Cross – 6/3/14 – manufacturing marijuana (one count).

Dylan Yawn – 6/5/14 – burglary (one count).

Kevin J. Shurling – 6/5/14 – burglary (one count).

Terry Girtman – 6/5/14 – possession of marijuana with intent to distribute (one count) and violation of oath by a public officer (one count). [Full Story »] 

Age: 5 months

Died: Friday, July 4, 2014

Arrangements: Crosby Funeral Home of Alma was in charge of arrangements.