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The Eastman City Council voted unanimously to raise garbage pickup rates by $1.00 in 2014.

The price increase will take place in two increments. The first increase of 50 cents per month will take place with the February 20, 2014 billing.

The second increase of an additional 50 cents will become effective with the August 20, 2014 billing.
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Legals for February 12, 2014

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Grappling Warriors place third in region championship

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The Dodge County Middle School Grappling Warriors traveled to Dublin recently to compete in the Middle Georgia Middle School Athletic Association Region Championships. Thirteen wrestlers represented Dodge County on the mat and nine walked away placing in the top four. As a team, the Warriors brought home third place honors and crowned four champions.
Winning his third region championship was Christian Grauberger, 100 pounds, who pinned his way through the bracket with ease. Also earning a gold medal was Jared Cannon, 138 pounds, who finished up the season as our only undefeated wrestler.
First year grapplers Chandler Davis, 145 pounds and Ethan Rice, 152 pounds, surpassed all expectations and turned in flawless performances to bring home their first wrestling gold medals. At 106 pounds, Aiden Greer, placed second while Cade Cranford, 170 pounds, brought home the bronze medal in his first region competition. Finishing just shy of the medal rounds and placing fourth were Jeremy Mullis, 85 pounds; Noah Atkinson, 126 pounds and Archer Rowland, 180 pounds. The Grappling Warriors have placed third at region for the past three years and despite giving up several weight classes, those who compete have done a remarkable job on the mat.

A tendency to plagiarize

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Did President Obama’s State of the Union speech sound a bit like George W. Bush in 2007? Marc Thiessen, GWB’s lead speech writer thinks so.
“Obama has gone from blaming George W. Bush to plagiarizing George W. Bush,” says Mr. Thiessen

Now we have a president and v.p. (vice plagiarist) who have a tendency to plagiarize. Remember Joe Biden suddenly quitting the 1988 presidential race after his plagiarisms came to light? Twenty years later he reemerged, figuring no one would recall the incident. We do.

Obama now says he welcomes the United Nations global gun ban. He has always voted for gun control, gun bans, gun confiscation in the Illinois legislature and the U.S. Senate. He had the gall to lie about his gun views when running in 2008, claiming he believed in private gun ownership. Just like the Clintons and many other politicians, his promises should come with expiration dates.
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Letter To The Editor

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Wednesday, February 12. 2014

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Dear editor,
Things the citizens should know.

As you all know, all individual retirement accounts are private property and they belong to people preparing for their retirement years. But, preparing for retirement has always been optional. Some do, some don’t.
Most recently, those who build retirement accounts are going to be targets of the political class. For years, politicians have coveted the billions of dollars in privately held retirement accounts, but the ruling class couldn’t get their greedy hands on the money.

Well folks, the confiscation of individual retirement accounts began with the announcement by the president of the new myRA. Not to worry, there will not be an outright confiscation overnight and they will not send in the lawyers and SWAT teams to seize property the way the tax collector does. No, the confiscation begins with what the Progressives call the nudge, an appeal for citizens to accept the idea that the government has a better idea of money management. [Full Story »]

BREAKING NEWS!

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Tuesday, February 11. 2014

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BREAKING NEWS:
From Dodge County School Superintendent Dr. Melinda Dennis: Due to forecasted bad weather for Dodge County on Wednesday, February 12, 2014, students in schools in the county will be released at the following times on Wednesday:

South and North Dodge Elementary students will be released at 12:00 noon. Dodge County Middle School and Dodge County High School students will be dismissed at 12:15 p.m. All staff members will be dismissed at 1:00 p.m. [Full Story »]

Leila E. Whitehead Wigley

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Monday, February 10. 2014

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Age: 86

Died: Sunday, February 9, 2014

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

Ernestine Taylor Jones

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Monday, February 10. 2014

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Age: 81

Died: Sunday, February 9, 2014

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

Sue Moore Davis

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Monday, February 10. 2014

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Age: 86

Died: Saturday, February 1, 2014

Arrangements: Mathis Funeral Home of Cochran was in charge of arrangements.

Impact places first

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Friday, February 7. 2014

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Police, deputies make arrests

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Friday, February 7. 2014

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The Eastman Police Department made the following arrest the week of January 28, 2014 through February 4, 2014.

Kasabian McDuffie, age 41, Eastman Street Eastman, cruelty to animals (one count).

Jonathan Snellgrove, age 20, 1147 MLK Drive Eastman, aggravated assault on police officers (one count), obstruction of officers (one count), leaving a scene of an accident (one count) and driving on suspended license (one count).
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