The Dodge County News

The Eastman Police Department responded to the Evergreen Circle Subdivision on Wednesday, May 30, 2018. They were called to a residence in Evergreen Circle where a vehicle was entered and a rifle and a 9 mm pistol were missing. After a short while, others in the neighborhood reported their vehicles had also been entered.

During the investigation, the Eastman Police Department, along with the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office, recovered three handguns and a rifle that had been stolen from the vehicles.

Arrested and charged with entering the autos was Bernoski Shawnquarious White, age 20, of Eastman. White was charged with 16 counts of entering an auto, participation in gang activity, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of a firearm during a crime and theft by taking.

Three juveniles, all age 15, were also arrested and charged with 16 counts of entering an auto, participation in gang activity, possession of a firearm during a crime and theft by taking.

Eastman police also reported the following arrest for June 1, 2018 – June 5, 2018.

Resheena Nicely, age 32, of Eastman was arrested for have no insurance and pedestrian under the influence.

Johnathan Murray, age 24, of Eastman was arrested for probation violation.

Warren Seegars, age 31, of Eastman was arrested for obstructing law enforcement officers, terroristic threats and acts, disorderly conduct, aggravated assault - other weapon and criminal trespass - business.
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On Friday, June 1, the 199 members of Dodge County High School’s (DCHS) Class of 2018 will celebrate personal and academic achievements by walking across the stage and receiving diplomas at Memorial Stadium.

The graduating class of DCHS includes 199 students, 51 earning the title of Honor Graduate and being awarded a gold stole. These students, over the course of their four years in high school, have taken two units of the same foreign language, a half unit of computer applications, a half unit of speech, and have earned a cumulative academic average of 94 or higher. Additionally, students who do not have a 94 average but have maintained a 90 average and have scored 1185 or higher on the verbal and math sections on the SAT, or 26 or better on the ACT, will also have the distinction of graduating with honors.

Receiving additional academic honors with distinction will be the class’s top four students. Lane Barrows will graduate top of her class and will be recognized as co-valedictorian with Christian Grauberger, who has earned the distinction of second in his class. Michelle Zhang has earned the honor of being third in the graduating class of 2018 and serves as co-salutatorian with the fourth graduate of the Class of 2018, Jacob Snyder.
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CONDEMNATIONS
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NO­TICE OF SEI­ZURE OF
PER­SON­AL PROP­ER­TY VALUED AT LESS THAN $25,000.00
Pur­su­ant to O.C.G.A. § 9-16-1, Et Seq, any par­ty claim­ing an in­ter­est in the fol­low­ing prop­er­ty is here­by no­ti­fied that on De­cem­ber 29, 2017, said prop­er­ty was seized by the un­der­signed agen­cy in Dodge Coun­ty, Geor­gia:
REM­ING­TON MOD­EL 700 ADL .243 (Se­ri­al #: B6855863) WITH TAS­CO SCOPE, 100 ATR .30-06
(Se­ri­al #: BA286883) WITH
BARSK SCOPE
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. § 9-16-1, Et Seq, to the seiz­ing law en­force­ment agen­cy and to the dis­trict at­tor­ney by cer­ti­fied mail, re­turn re­ceipt re­quest­ed.
This 4th day of April, 2018.
NI­CO­LAS PARKE­SON
As­sis­tant Dis­trict At­tor­ney
Oco­nee Ju­di­cial Cir­cuit
P.O. Box 1027
5401 An­son Ave­nue, Room 200
East­man, GA 31023
Seiz­ing Agen­cy:
TREY WIL­LIAMS
Oco­nee Drug Task Force
327 Pearl Bates Ave­nue
East­man, GA 31023

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DEBTORS AND CREDITORS
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NO­TICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDI­TORS
STATE OF GEOR­GIA
COUN­TY OF DODGE
IN RE: ES­TATE OF WILL H. LOCK­ETT, JR.
All credi­tors of the Es­tate of WILL H. LOCK­ETT, JR., are here­by no­ti­fied to render in their de­mands to the un­der­signed in ac­cor­dance with the law, and all per­sons in­debt­ed to said Es­tate are re­quired to make im­me­diate pay­ment to me.
This the 14th day of May, 2018.
RO­BER­TA LOCK­ETT
Ex­ec­u­tor of the Es­tate of WILL H. LOCK­ETT, JR., De­ceased
327 Friend­ship/UMC Rd.
Coch­ran, GA 31014
AL Mc­CRA­NIE
Probate Court, Dodge Coun­ty
P.O. Box 514
East­man, Geor­gia 31023
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NO­TICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDI­TORS
All credi­tors of the Es­tate of SHEL­TON CLAY BRAN­TLEY, late of Dodge Coun­ty, Geor­gia, de­ceased, 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.
PA­ME­LA C. BRAN­TLEY
38 July Drive
East­man, Geor­gia 31023
This 17th day of May 2018.
c/o:
RITA J. LLOP
At­tor­ney at Law
Rita J. Llop, P. C.
5007 9th Ave­nue, N.E.
East­man, Geor­gia 31023
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NO­TICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDI­TORS
STATE OF GEOR­GIA
COUN­TY OF DODGE
IN RE: ES­TATE OF MAR­LAND ROG­ERS MOORE
All credi­tors of the Es­tate of MAR­LAND ROG­ERS MOORE are here­by no­ti­fied to render in their de­mands to the un­der­signed in ac­cor­dance with the law, and all per­sons in­debt­ed to said Es­tate are re­quired to make im­me­diate pay­ment to me.
This the 19th day of April, 2018.
MARY ANN MAR­TIN,
Ad­min­is­tra­tor of the
Es­tate of MAR­LAND ROG­ERS MOORE, De­ceased
MARY ANN MAR­TIN
5135 Creighton Street
East­man, GA 31023

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FORECLOSURES
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NO­TICE OF SALE
UN­DER POW­ER
GEOR­GIA, DODGE COUNTY­
THIS LAW FIRM IS ACT­ING AS A DEBT COL­LEC­TOR AT­TEMPT­ING TO COL­LECT A DEBT. ANY IN­FOR­MA­TION OB­TAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PUR­POSE.
Un­der and by vir­tue of the Pow­er of Sale con­tained in a Se­cur­i­ty Deed given by SCOTT CARR to CO­LO­NY BANK OF DODGE COUN­TY n/k/a CO­LO­NY BANK dat­ed July 23, 2004, record­ed in Deed Book 480, Page 203, Dodge Coun­ty, Geor­gia Records, con­vey­ing the af­ter-de­scribed prop­er­ty to se­cure a Note in the to­tal amount of TWEN­TY FOUR THOU­SAND SIX HUNDRED FIF­TY TWO Dol­lars and 84/100 ($24,652.84) with in­ter­est there­on as set forth there­in, there will be sold 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 June, 2018 the fol­low­ing de­scribed prop­er­ty:
TRACT 1: ALL THAT TRACT OR PAR­CEL OF LAND LY­ING AND BE­ING IN LAND LOT NO. 277 IN
THE 19TH LAND DIS­TRICT OF DODGE COUN­TY, GEOR­GIA, BE­ING LOT NO. 5 CON­SIST­ING OF 4.32 ACR­ES, MORE OR LESS, AND BE­ING MORE PAR­TICU­LAR­LY DE­SCRIBED AC­CORD­ING TO A PLAT OF SUR­VEY PRE­PARED BY TI­MOTHY W. EA­SON, GEOR­GIA REG­IS­TERED LAND SUR­VEYOR NO. 2508, WHICH IS RECORD­ED IN THE OF­FICE OF THE CLERK OF DODGE SU­PE­RI­OR COURT IN PLAT BOOK 34, PAGE 28, SAID PLAT AND THE RECORD­ING THERE­OF BE­ING IN­COR­PO­RAT­ED HERE­IN AND MADE A PART HERE­OF BY REF­ER­ENCE FOR DE­SCRIP­TIVE AND ALL OTH­ER LE­GAL PUR­POS­ES.

TRACT 2: ALL THAT TRACT OR PAR­CEL OF LAND LY­ING AND BE­ING IN LAND LOT NO. 277 IN THE 19TH LAND DIS­TRICT OF DODGE COUN­TY, GEOR­GIA, BE­ING LOT NO. 8 CON­SIST­ING OF 8.04 ACR­ES, MORE OR LESS, AND BE­ING MORE PAR­TICU­LAR­LY DE­SCRIBED AC­CORD­ING TO PLAT OF SUR­VEY PRE­PARED BY TI­MOTHY W. EA­SON, GEOR­GIA REG­IS­TERED LAND SUR­VEYOR NO. 2058, WHICH IS RECORD­ED IN THE OF­FICE OF THE CLERK OF DODGE SU­PE­RI­OR COURT IN PLAT BOOK 34, PAGE 28, SAID PLAT AND THE RECORD­ING THERE­OF BE­ING IN­COR­PO­RAT­ED HERE­IN AND MADE A PART HERE­OF BY REF­ER­ENCE FOR DE­SCRIP­TIVE AND ALL OTH­ER LE­GAL PUR­POS­ES.

TO­GETH­ER WITH: A 1997 WEST­FIELD MO­BILE HOME MOD­EL UNK WITH VE­HI­CLE IDEN­TI­FI­CA­TION NUMBER GAFLT0­7A38200W212

The debt se­cured by said Se­cur­i­ty Deed has been and is 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 the same and all ex­pens­es of this sale, as pro­vid­ed in said Se­cur­i­ty Deed and by law, in­clud­ing at­tor­neys fees (no­tice of int­ent to col­lect at­tor­neys fees hav­ing been given).
Said prop­er­ty will be sold sub­ject to any out­stand­ing ad valor­em tax­es (in­clud­ing tax­es which are a lien, but not yet due and pay­able), any mat­ters which might be dis­closed by an ac­cu­rate sur­vey and in­spec­tion of the prop­er­ty, any as­sess­ments, liens, en­cum­branc­es, zon­ing or­di­nanc­es, re­stric­tions, cov­en­ants, and mat­ters of record su­pe­ri­or to the Se­cur­i­ty Deed first set out above.
To the best knowl­edge and be­lief of the un­der­signed, the par­ty in pos­ses­sion of the prop­er­ty is SCOTT CARR a/k/a PHIL­LIP SCOTT CARR or a ten­ant or ten­ants.
Pur­su­ant to O. C. G. A. §44-14-162.2, the name, ad­dress and tel­e­phone number of the in­di­vid­u­al or ent­i­ty who shall have the full au­thor­i­ty to ne­go­tiate, amend, or mod­i­fy all terms of the above de­scribed mort­gage is as fol­lows: CO­LO­NY BANK, 115 S. GRANT STREET, FITZ­GER­ALD, GA 31750. Tel­e­phone: 229-426-6000. The fore­go­ing not­with­stand­ing, noth­ing in O. C. G. A.§44-14-162.2 shall be con­strued to re­quire CO­LO­NY BANK to ne­go­tiate, amend or mod­i­fy the terms of the Deed to Se­cure Debt de­scribed here­in.
The sale will be con­duct­ed sub­ject (1) to con­fir­ma­tion that the sale is not pro­hibi­ted un­der the U S. Bank­rupt­cy Code and (2) to fin­al con­fir­ma­tion and au­dit of the sta­tus of the loan with the hold­er of the se­cur­i­ty deed.
This 4th day of May, 2018.
CO­LO­NY BANK OF DODGE COUN­TY n/k/a CO­LO­NY BANK
AS AT­TOR­NEY IN FACT FOR
SCOTT CARR a/k/a PHIL­LIP SCOTT CARR
DA­VID M. WOLF­SON, P. C.
At­tor­ney at Law
1010 Wil­liams Street
Val­dos­ta, GA 31601
(229) 257-0080
State Bar No. 578435
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NO­TICE OF SALE
UN­DER POW­ER
GEOR­GIA, DODGE COUN­TY
THIS LAW FIRM IS ACT­ING AS A DEBT COL­LEC­TOR AT­TEMPT­ING TO COL­LECT A DEBT. ANY IN­FOR­MA­TION OB­TAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PUR­POSE.
Un­der and by vir­tue of the Pow­er of Sale con­tained in a Se­cur­i­ty Deed given by SCOTT CARR to CO­LO­NY BANK OF DODGE COUN­TY n/k/a CO­LO­NY BANK dat­ed Au­gust 31, 2005, record­ed in Deed Book 519, Page 282, DODGE Coun­ty, Geor­gia Records, con­vey­ing the af­ter-de­scribed prop­er­ty to se­cure a Note in the to­tal amount of TWEN­TY FOUR THOU­SAND SIX HUNDRED FIF­TY TWO Dol­lars and 84/100 ($24,652.84) with in­ter­est there­on as set forth there­in, there will be sold 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 June, 2018 the fol­low­ing de­scribed prop­er­ty:
ALL THAT TRACT OR PAR­CEL OF LAND LY­ING AND BE­ING IN LAND LOT NO. 277 IN THE 19TH LAND DIS­TRICT OF DODGE COUN­TY, GEOR­GIA, BE­ING LOT NO. 4 CON­SIST­ING OF 3.91 ACR­ES, MORE OR LESS, AND BE­ING MORE PAR­TICU­LAR­LY DE­SCRIBED AC­CORD­ING TO A PLAT OF SUR­VEY PRE­PARED BY TI­MOTHY W. EA­SON, GEOR­GIA REG­IS­TERED LAND SUR­VEYOR NO. 2058, WHICH IS RECORD­ED IN THE OF­FICE OF THE CLERK OF DODGE SU­PE­RI­OR COURT IN PLAT BOOK 34, PAGE 28, SAID PLAT AND THE RE­COD­ING THERE­OF BE­ING IN­COR­PO­RAT­ED HERE­IN AND MADE A PART HERE­OF BY REF­ER­ENCE FOR DE­SCRIP­TIVE AND ALL OTH­ER LE­GAL PUR­POS­ES.
The debt se­cured by said Se­cur­i­ty Deed has been and is 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 the same and all ex­pens­es of this sale, as pro­vid­ed in said Se­cur­i­ty Deed and by law, in­clud­ing at­tor­neys fees (no­tice of int­ent to col­lect at­tor­neys fees hav­ing been given).
Said prop­er­ty will be sold sub­ject to any out­stand­ing ad valor­em tax­es (in­clud­ing tax­es which are a lien, but not yet due and pay­able), any mat­ters which might be dis­closed by an ac­cu­rate sur­vey and in­spec­tion of the prop­er­ty, any as­sess­ments, liens, en­cum­branc­es, zon­ing or­di­nanc­es, re­stric­tions, cov­en­ants, and mat­ters of record su­pe­ri­or to the Se­cur­i­ty Deed first set out above.
To the best knowl­edge and be­lief of the un­der­signed, the par­ty in pos­ses­sion of the prop­er­ty is SCOTT CARR a/k/a PHIL­LIP SCOTT CARR or a ten­ant or ten­ants.
Pur­su­ant to O. C. G. A. §44-14-162.2, the name, ad­dress and tel­e­phone number of the in­di­vid­u­al or ent­i­ty who shall have the full au­thor­i­ty to ne­go­tiate, amend, or mod­i­fy all terms of the above de­scribed mort­gage is as fol­lows: CO­LO­NY BANK, 115 S. GRANT STREET, FITZ­GER­ALD, GA 31750. Tel­e­phone: 229-426-6000. The fore­go­ing not­with­stand­ing, noth­ing in O. C. G. A.§44-14-162.2 shall be con­strued to re­quire CO­LO­NY BANK to ne­go­tiate, amend or mod­i­fy the terms of the Deed to Se­cure Debt de­scribed here­in.
The sale will be con­duct­ed sub­ject (1) to con­fir­ma­tion that the sale is not pro­hibi­ted un­der the U S. Bank­rupt­cy Code and (2) to fin­al con­fir­ma­tion and au­dit of the sta­tus of the loan with the hold­er of the se­cur­i­ty deed.
This 4th day of May, 2018.
CO­LO­NY BANK OF DODGE COUN­TY n/k/a CO­LO­NY BANK
AS AT­TOR­NEY IN FACT FOR
SCOTT CARR a/k/a PHIL­LIP SCOTT CARR
DA­VID M. WOLF­SON, P. C.
At­tor­ney at Law
1010 Wil­liams Street
Val­dos­ta, GA 31601
(229) 257-0080
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NO­TICE OF SALE
UN­DER POW­ER
GEOR­GIA, DODGE COUN­TY
THIS IS AN AT­TEMPT TO COL­LECT A DEBT. ANY IN­FOR­MA­TION OB­TAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PUR­POSE.
Un­der and by vir­tue of the Pow­er of Sale con­tained in a Se­cur­i­ty Deed given by BRAN­DON S DYKES AND ASH­LEY L DYKES TO MORT­GAGE ELEC­TRON­IC REG­IS­TRA­TION SYS­TEMS, INC., as no­mi­nee for CBC NA­TION­AL BANK, its suc­ces­sors and as­signs, dat­ed Oc­tob­er 13, 2010, record­ed in Deed Book 666, Page 321, DODGE Coun­ty, Geor­gia Records, as last trans­ferred to WELLS FAR­GO BANK, NA by as­sign­ment record­ed in Deed Book 834, Page 213, DODGE Coun­ty, Geor­gia Records, con­vey­ing the af­ter-de­scribed prop­er­ty to se­cure a Note in the origi­nal prin­ci­pal amount of ONE HUNDRED SIX­TY-ONE THOU­SAND EIGHT HUNDRED TWEN­TY AND 0/100 DOL­LARS ($161,820.00), with in­ter­est there­on as set forth there­in, there will be sold at pub­lic out­cry to the high­est bid­der for cash be­fore the court­house door of Dodge Coun­ty, Geor­gia, or at such place as may be law­ful­ly des­ig­nat­ed as an al­ter­na­tive, with­in the le­gal hours of sale on the first Tues­day in June, 2018, the fol­low­ing de­scribed prop­er­ty:
SEE EX­HIB­IT “A” AT­TACHED HERE­TO AND MADE A PART HERE­OF
The debt se­cured by said Se­cur­i­ty Deed has been and is 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 the same and all ex­pens­es of this sale, as pro­vid­ed in the Se­cur­i­ty Deed and by law, in­clud­ing at­tor­ney’s fees (no­tice of int­ent to col­lect at­tor­ney’s fees hav­ing been given).
Said prop­er­ty will be sold sub­ject to any out­stand­ing ad valor­em tax­es (in­clud­ing tax­es which are a lien, but
not yet due and pay­able), any mat­ters which might be dis­closed by an ac­cu­rate sur­vey and in­spec­tion of the prop­er­ty, any as­sess­ments, liens, en­cum­branc­es, zon­ing or­di­nanc­es, re­stric­tions, cov­en­ants, and mat­ters of record su­pe­ri­or to the Se­cur­i­ty Deed first set out above.
WELLS FAR­GO BANK, NA is the hold­er of the Se­cur­i­ty Deed to the prop­er­ty in ac­cor­dance with OCGA § 44-14-162.2.
The ent­i­ty that has full au­thor­i­ty to ne­go­tiate, amend, and mod­i­fy all terms of the mort­gage with the debtor is: WELLS FAR­GO HOME MORT­GAGE A DIV. OF WELLS FAR­GO BANK, N.A., PO BOX 10335, DES MOINES, IA 50306 1-800-416-1472.
To the best knowl­edge and be­lief of the un­der­signed, the par­ty in pos­ses­sion of the prop­er­ty is BRAN­DON S DYKES AND ASH­LEY L DYKES or a ten­ant or ten­ants and said prop­er­ty is more com­mon­ly known as 1311 4TH AVE­NUE, EAST­MAN, GEOR­GIA 31023.
The sale will be con­duct­ed sub­ject (1) to con­fir­ma­tion that the sale is not pro­hibi­ted un­der the U.S. Bank­rupt­cy Code and (2) to fin­al con­fir­ma­tion and au­dit of the sta­tus of the loan with the hold­er of the se­cur­i­ty deed.
WELLS FAR­GO BANK, NA
as At­tor­ney in Fact for
BRAN­DON S DYKES AND ASH­LEY L DYKES
MCCAL­LA RAYM­ER LEI­BERT PIERCE, LLC
1544 Old Ala­ba­ma Road
Ros­well, Geor­gia 30076
www.fore­clo­sur­e­ho­tline.net

EX­HIB­IT “A”
ALL THAT TRACT OR PAR­CEL OF LAND LY­ING AND BE­ING IN THE CITY OF EAST­MAN, DODGE COUN­TY, GEOR­GIA, AND BE­ING KNOWN AND DES­IG­NAT­ED AS
LOTS 7 AND 8, BLOCK “O”, JES­SUP HEIGHTS SUB­DI­VI­SION, EXT. NO. 1, AND BE­ING FUR­THER DE­SCRIBED AS FOL­LOWS: BE­GIN AT AN IRON PIN PLACED AT THE IN­TER­SEC­TION OF THE SOUTH­EAST RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF FOURTH AVE­NUE WITH THE SOUTH­WEST RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF WOOD­LAND DRIVE AND FROM SAID POINT AND PLACE OF BE­GIN­NING, RUN SOUTH 49 DE­GREES 55 MINUTES 49 SEC­ONDS EAST A DIS­TANCE OF 230.78 FEET TO AN IRON PIN; THENCE RUN SOUTH 37 DE­GREES 33 MINUTES 55 SEC­ONDS WEST A DIS­TANCE OF 204.10 FEET TO AN IRON PIN; THENCE RUN NORTH 44 DE­GREES 05 MINUTES 45 SEC­ONDS WEST A DIS­TANCE OF 256.37 FEET TO A CON­CRETE MARK­ER; THENCE RUN NORTH 45 DE­GREES 00 MINUTES 00 SEC­ONDS EAST A DIS­TANCE OF 178.50 FEET TO AN IRON PIN AND THE POINT AND PLACE OF BE­GIN­NING. SAID TRACT CON­TAINS 1.07 ACR­ES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS.

SAID TRACT IS FUR­THER DE­SCRIBED AC­CORD­ING TO THAT CER­TAIN PLAT OF SUR­VEY PRE­PARED BY W.P. JOHN­SON & AS­SO­CIATES FOR GUS A. ALL­BRIT­TON, DAT­ED NO­VEM­BER 14, 1997, AND RECORD­ED IN PLAT BOOK 28 AT PAGE 308 IN THE DEED RECORDS OF DODGE COUN­TY, GEOR­GIA.

LOT NO. 7 OF THE ABOVE-DE­SCRIBED PROP­ER­TY IS EX­PRESS­LY SUB­JECT TO A PER­MA­NENT EASE­MENT TO AND RIGHT OF USE AND AT­TACH TO THE CITY WA­TER LINE, SAID EASE­MENT BE­ING SHOWN ON THE ABOVE REF­ER­ENCE PLAT OF SUR­VEY.

SUB­JECT TO EX­IST­ING EASE­MENTS FOR PUB­LIC ROADS AND UTIL­I­TIES.
MR/kdh 6/5/18
Our file no. 5325517 - FT5
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NO­TICE OF SALE UN­DER POW­ER IN SE­CUR­I­TY DEED
GEOR­GIA, DODGE COUN­TY.
By vir­tue of the pow­er of sale con­tained in the DEED TO SE­CURE DEBT given by THO­MAS G. MCKIN­NEY to THE MER­CHANTS & CIT­I­ZENS BANK dat­ed July 3rd, 2008, and record­ed in Deed Book 611, Page 188-191, in the Of­fice of the Clerk of the Su­pe­ri­or Court of DODGE Coun­ty, GA., con­vey­ing the be­low-de­scribed prop­er­ty, to se­cure that cer­tain note given by THO­MAS G. MCKIN­NEY to THE MER­CHANTS & CIT­I­ZENS BANK in the origi­nal prin­ci­pal amount of $37,589.50 with in­ter­est there­on as set forth there­in, there will be sold by the un­der­signed at pub­lic out­cry to the high­est bid­der be­fore the Court­house Door at DODGE Coun­ty, Geor­gia, with­in the le­gal hours of sale, on the first Tues­day in June 2018, the fol­low­ing de­scribed prop­er­ty:
ALL THAT TRACT OR PAR­CEL OF LAND SITU­ATE, LY­ING AND BE­ING IN LAND LOT NO. 83 IN THE 14TH LAND DIS­TRICT OF DODGE COUN­TY, GEOR­GIA, CON­TAIN­ING 0.31 ACRE, MORE OR LESS, AND BE­ING THE 1.5-ACRE TRACT OF LAND CON­VEYED TO BER­DE­NA BROWN BY DEED FROM FAN­NIE PEA­COCK DAT­ED MARCH 4, 1958, RECORD­ED IN DEED BOOK 82, PAGE 248, IN THE OF­FICE OF THE CLERK OF SU­PE­RI­OR COURT OF DODGE COUN­TY, GEOR­GIA, LESS AND EX­CEPT, THE FOL­LOW­ING TWO TRACTS OF LAND: (1) 0.20 ACRE, MORE OR LESS CON­VEYED TO MT. AR­AR­AT FREE­WILL BAP­TIST CHURCH BY DEED DAT­ED DE­CEM­BER 27, 2003, RECORD­ED IN DEED BOOK 463, PAG­ES 4-5, MORE PAR­TICU­LAR­LY DE­SCRIBED AS TRACT 2 ON THAT PLAT OF SUR­VEY PRE­PARED BY WIL­LIAM P. JOHN­SON, SUR­VEYOR, DAT­ED OC­TOB­ER 9, 2003, RECORD­ED IN PLAT BOOK 33, PAGE 53, BOTH IN THE OF­FICE OF THE CLERK OF SU­PE­RI­OR COURT OF DODGE COUN­TY, GEOR­GIA, AND (2) ONE (1) ACRE, MORE OR LESS, CON­-
VEYED TO PA­TRI­CIA A. HAR­DIN BY DEED DAT­ED NO­VEM­BER 26, 2004, RECORD­ED IN DEED BOOK 494, PAG­ES 173-174, MORE PAR­TICU­LAR­LY DE­SCRIBED IN THAT CER­TAIN PLAT OF SUR­VEY BY GRA­DY BONEY, G.R.L.S. #2460, DAT­ED NO­VEM­BER 1, 2004, RECORD­ED IN DEED BOOK 33, PAGE 206, BOTH IN THE OF­FICE OF THE CLERK OF SU­PE­RI­OR COURT OF DODGE COUN­TY, GEOR­GIA.
The above prop­er­ty is lo­cat­ed at: 2225 CHAUN­CEY RHINE HIGH­WAY, EAST­MAN, GA 31023.
To the best knowl­edge and be­lief of the un­der­signed, the per­son or per­sons who may be in the pos­ses­sion of such prop­er­ty is THO­MAS G. MCKIN­NEY.
The debt se­cured by said se­cur­i­ty deed has been and is here­by de­clared due be­cause of, among oth­er pos­si­ble ev­ents of de­fault, fai­lure to make pay­ments in ac­cor­dance with the terms of said note. The debt re­main­ing in de­fault, this sale will be made for the pur­pose of pay­ing the same, and all ex­pens­es of sale, in­clud­ing at­tor­ney’s fees.
Said prop­er­ty will be sold sub­ject to all out­stand­ing ad valor­em tax­es and/or as­ses­sments and/or re­stric­tions and/or zon­ing or­di­nanc­es and/or cov­en­ants; mat­ters that may be dis­closed by an ac­cu­rate sur­vey and/or in­spec­tion of the prop­er­ty; and mat­ters of record su­pe­ri­or to the DEED TO SE­CURE DEBT.
No­tice has been given of in­ten­tion to col­lect at­tor­ney’s fees in ac­cor­dance with the terms of the note se­cured by the prop­er­ty.
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 loan with the hold­er of the DEED TO SE­CURE DEBT.
THIS LAW FIRM IS A DEBT COL­LEC­TOR AT­TEMPT­ING TO COL­LECT A DEBT AND ANY IN­FOR­MA­TION OB­TAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PUR­POSE.
The name, ad­dress, and tel­e­phone number of the in­di­vid­u­al or ent­i­ty who shall have full au­thor­i­ty to ne­go­tiate, amend, and mod­i­fy all terms of the DEED TO SE­CURE DEBT IS MR. WIL­LIAM RODG­ERS, AS­SIS­TANT VICE PRES­I­DENT, THE MER­CHANTS & CIT­I­ZENS BANK, 6 W COL­LEGE STREET, MCRAE, GA 31055. (229) 868-5656.
THE MER­CHANTS &
CIT­I­ZENS BANK
At­tor­ney-in-Fact for
THO­MAS G. MCKIN­NEY
ED­WARD B. CLAX­TON III
At­tor­ney at Law
P. O. Box 16459
Du­blin, Geor­gia 31040
478-272-9965

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PROBATE NOTICES
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IN THE PROBATE COURT
COUN­TY OF DODGE
STATE OF GEOR­GIA
IN RE: ES­TATE OF CAR­O­LYN CO­LEY BRAY, DE­CEASED
ES­TATE NO.
PE­TI­TION FOR LET­TERS OF
AD­MIN­IS­TRA­TION NO­TICE
NO­TICE
TO: WHOM IT MAY CON­CERN:
TON­YA MICHELLE GOOD­RUM has pe­ti­tioned to be ap­point­ed Ad­min­is­tra­tor of the ES­TATE of CAR­O­LYN CO­LEY BRAY, de­ceased, of said Coun­ty. The pe­ti­tion­er has also ap­plied for waiv­er of bond and/or grant of cer­tain pow­ers con­tained in O.C.G.A. § 53-12-261.
All in­ter­est­ed par­ties are here­by no­ti­fied to show cause why said pe­ti­tion should not be grant­ed
All ob­jec­tions to the pe­ti­tion must be in writ­ing, set­ting forth the grounds of any such ob­jec­tions, and must be filed with the court on or be­fore June 27, 2018.
BE NO­TI­FIED FUR­THER: All plead­ings/ob­jec­tions must be signed un­der oath be­fore a no­tary pub­lic or be­fore a probate court clerk, and fil­ing fees must be ten­dered with your plead­ings/ob­jec­tions, un­less you qual­i­fy to file as an in­di­gent par­ty.
Con­tact probate court per­son­nel at the fol­low­ing ad­dress/tel­e­phone number for the re­quired amount of fil­ing fees. If any ob­jec­tions are filed a hear­ing will be sched­uled at a lat­er date. If no ob­jec­tions are filed, the pe­ti­tion may be grant­ed with­out a hear­ing.
This 16th day of May, 2018
AL MCCRA­NIE
Judge, Dodge Coun­ty Probate Court
Probate Court of Dodge Coun­ty
5401 An­son Ave­nue
East­man, GA 31023
478-374-3775
Pre­sent­ed by:
RITA J. LLOP, PC
At­tor­ney at Law
5007 9th Ave­nue
East­man, GA 31023
478-374-9500