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Age: 90

Died: Sunday, December 14, 2014

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

Mitch Tanner, a senior, was named the special teams player of the year. Tanner’s numbers on the season were one touchdown, eight field goals and 34 point after touchdown kicks. He also had seven receptions on the year for 93 total yards; one fumble recovery; and three carries for 19 yards. Tanner also made an impact on the defensive side of the ball as he has 46 total tackles, of those 39 were solo and 14 were assists; 11 sacks on the season; 15.5 tackles for losses; and six pass break-ups.
Six DCHS Indians, Landon Martin, Kyle Glover, Cain Peterson, Jacob Gurien, Devonta Floyd and Roscoe Wilcox were named to the first team All Region for 1AAA. Martin, senior quarterback, played 12 games and had 116 rushing attempts for 632 yards and 11 touchdowns; completed 54 passes of 91 attempts for 607 yards and five touchdowns and five interceptions; and scored 11 touchdowns and one two-point conversion. Martin forced one fumble and recovered two fumbles on the season.
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By Cindy Eckles

Using funds from the 2003 Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax, the Dodge County Board of Commissioners purchased two new ambulances approximately six months ago.

Emergency Management Service (EMS) Manager Rickie Coleman, brought one of the ambulances to the regular meeting of the commissioners on Monday, December 15, 2014 for them to see. Coleman commented, “They are going to be beneficial in serving the citizens of Dodge County and the surrounding area.”

Coleman added, “Due to mechanical breakdowns of the current fleet of ambulances, we as a department got in a bind and had to resource, and call for mutual aid. Laurens County came to Dodge’s rescue by loaning the Dodge County EMS an ambulance.”
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The Eastman Police Department made the following arrests for the week of December 8 through December 16, 2014.

Whitney Williams, age 24, 611 Pearl Bates Avenue, Eastman, no insurance (one count).

James Cockrell, age 48, 36 King Way, Lot 5, Eastman, drugs-marijuana less than one ounce (one count).

Anthony Horne, age 51, 5774 Leitch Street, Eastman, license-driving while license suspended or revoked (one count).

Crystal Bechtold, age 17, 351 Eugene Smith Drive, Eastman, disorderly conduct (one count).

Rashaan Calhoun, age 23, 714 St. Elmo Circle, Apartment 3B, Eastman, firearms: possession during a crime (one count).

Enri Williams, age 38, 5597 Dodge Avenue, Eastman, shoplifting less than $500.00 (one count).

Juvenile, age 16, Eastman, possession of ounce or less of marijuana (one count).

Juvenile, age 15, Eastman, shoplifting less than $500.00 (one count).

Yogi Hamilton, age 51, 76 Sanders Cemetery Road, Chauncey, driving under the influence (DUI) refusal (one count).

Tammie Spires, age 47, 321 Poplar Street, Eastman, disorderly conduct (one count).

Jennifer Stokes, age 41, 5031 Greenhill Road, Eastman, furnishing alcohol to minors (10 counts).

The following arrests were reported by the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office for the dates November 11, 2014 through December 5, 2014.

Johnny F. Johnson – 11/16/14 – public drunkenness (one count) and possession of marijuana-less than 1 ounce (one count).

Alonzo Robinson – 11/18/14 – crossing guard lines with contraband (one count).

Joseph P. Mitchell – 11/18/14 – crossing guard lines with contraband (one count). [Full Story »] 

Left Coast USA nanny state in action: Seattle, Washington do-gooder control freaks are concerned at the look of your garbage can, at least how much food you throw away. Local  “politicians have passed an ordinance mandating a fine for residents who put too much food in the garbage,” reports The New American magazine (TheNewAmerican.com).
Amazing, isn’t it that we have come to this point. Of course, residents of such areas seem to think it is we down South who are the ignorant ones.
Liberalism is contagious. Don’t catch it.
Getting good results from government (freebies, preferred treatment, etc.) means being a likely Democrat voter.
Why Demoleft politicians want open borders and why the Republican establishment is stupid to play ball with them:
“For at least a century, there’s never been a period when a majority of immigrants weren’t Democrats.”
Ann Coulter 1-29-14  AnnCoulter.com
Don’t forget - vote fraud gave us Obamacare. When Democrats stole the Minnesota Senate seat in 2008 for Al Franken they provided the one vote needed to pass the bill.
What’s next: Astute VDARE.com writer Brenda Walker points out that Orchard Supply Hardware Store is using greeter robots. The machines stand ready to direct shoppers to the right aisle. She calls them OSHbots. Show the part needed to the robot’s screen and it will direct you to the spot.
“An addition, the robot celebrates diversity by speaking Spanish, so immigrants will find another disincentive to assimilate linguistically (which Americans expect of newbies).”
Brenda Walker on VDARE.com  10-31-14
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Dear editor,
Things are really getting bad when our country’s Senate (mostly Democrats) have accused out own CIA of using cruel and brutal tactics to obtain valuable information from Al-Qaida operatives. We would know nothing if not for the CIA.
I admire Dick Cheney for sticking to his guns and saying is was a “cheap-shot piece of political business.”
Torture has been going on since the beginning of wars, centuries ago. You cannot be nice to a prisoner, who probably hates you anyway, shake his hand and ask him to give up information he may know about. He will most likely spit in your face and tell you to go to Hades!
The only true brutal and horrible torture I have heard about or seen is on the news, when the Muslim terrorists hold American and other countries people prisoners and openly cut-off their heads while they are still alive! What do you think?
Our leaders of this good ‘ole U.S.A have no idea where they have been, where they are or where they are going! Only by turning to God for answers will they find the solutions!
Bobby Slye

Dear editor,
I just want to thank our law enforcement officers for all they do for us. It means a lot to me to know that if something goes “bump in the night” or worse, we have law enforcement officers we can call. If we get robbed, whom do we call? Law enforcement officers. If a child goes missing who gets the call? Law enforcement officers. They are on the job to help protect us with their lives and I for one am thankful they are.
Can you imagine what a place would be like without law enforcement? What if we called and no one answered? What if we had no police? Crime and chaos would run rampant. I hate to see our well-meaning police under attack. They are necessary to a civilized society and are so under appreciated and taken for granted. And, as in all cases, there are some that will make mistakes of judgment; that happens in every profession in every society.
I was a teacher for a number of years and I know that respect for authority is a thing of the past. It is not good in school, but the consequences of non-compliance in school are not as dire, in most instances, as they would be for lack of compliance with a police officer. Our children need to respect and obey police officers, especially when given a directive. Had those individuals in recent deaths been compliant with the request of the officers, they would be alive today. Teach your children to respect and obey the police and they will be a lot safer on the streets. The police are there to help you, if you are not breaking the law.
Iris Morris

1011 FORECLOSURES

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NO­TICE OF SALE UN­DER POW­ER
GEOR­GIA, DODGE COUN­TY
By vir­tue of the pow­er of sale con­tained in the Deed to Se­cure Debt from DA­VID CO­OP­ER TO MER­CHANTS & CIT­I­ZENS BANK, dat­ed March 4, 2005, record­ed in Deed Book 506, pag­es 321-325, in the Of­fice of the Clerk of Su­pe­ri­or Court of Dodge Coun­ty, Geor­gia, con­vey­ing the prop­er­ty de­scribed here­i­naft­er to se­cure a Note in the origi­nal prin­ci­pal amount of $17,800.15, with in­ter­est there­on as set forth there­in, for a to­tal amount of $5,836.94 (as of No­vem­ber 26, 2014) be­ing due, there will be sold at pub­lic out­cry to the high­est bid­der for cash, be­fore the Court­house door of Dodge Coun­ty, East­man, Geor­gia, dur­ing the le­gal hours of sale on the FIRST TUES­DAY IN JANU­ARY, 2015, the fol­low­ing de­scribed prop­er­ty, to-wit:
ALL THAT TRACT OR PAR­CEL OF LAND LY­ING AND BE­ING IN ORIGI­NAL LAND LOT NO. 74 IN THE 14TH LAND DIS­TRICT OF DODGE COUN­TY, GEOR­GIA, CON­TAIN­ING 2.45 ACR­ES, MORE OR LESS, AND BE­ING MORE PAR­TICU­LAR­LY DE­SCRIBED AS FOL­LOWS, TO-WIT: TO LOCATE THE BE­GIN­NING POINT, START AT THE IN­TER­SEC­TION OF THE CEN­TER­LINE OF MI­LAN-EAST­MAN HIGH­WAY (COUN­TY ROAD #30) AND THE CEN­TER­LINE OF AN­TI­OCH CHURCH ROAD (COUN­TY ROAD #28), WHICH START­ING POINT IS THE WEST CORN­ER OF SAID LAND LOT NO. 74, AND FROM SAID START­ING POINT ALONG THE CEN­TER­LINE OF AN­TI­OCH CHURCH ROAD NORTH 44 DE­GREES 21 MINUTES 35 SEC­ONDS EAST 1020.91 FEET; THENCE ALONG THE FENCE LINE SOUTH 46 DE­GREES 00 MINUTES 00 SEC­ONDS EAST 1140 FEET TO THE POINT OF BE­GIN­NING OF THIS DE­SCRIP­TION; AND FROM SAID BE­GIN­NING POINT, AS ES­TAB­LISHED, THENCE SOUTH 46 DE­GREES 00 MINUTES 00 SEC­ONDS EAST 520.00 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 35 DE­GREES 00 MINUTES 00 SEC­ONDS WEST 121.19 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 46 DE­GREES 57 MINUTES 46 SEC­ONDS EAST 160.00 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 44 DE­GREES 32 MINUTES 27 SEC­ONDS WEST 104.89 FEET; THENCE NORTH 46 DE­GREES 54 MINUTES 18 SEC­ONDS WEST 400.21 FEET;
THENCE NORTH 44 DE­GREES 12 MINUTES 27 SEC­ONDS EAST 104.48 FEET; THENCE NORTH 45 DE­GREES 51 MINUTES 12 SEC­ONDS WEST 297.10 FEET; THENCE NORTH 44 DE­GREES 00 MINUTES 00 SEC­ONDS EAST 123.00 FEET TO THE POINT OF BE­GIN­NING, ALL AS MORE PAR­TICU­LAR­LY SET FORTH IN THAT CER­TAIN PLAT OF SUR­VEY BY GRA­DY BONEY, G.R.L.S. #2460, DAT­ED JUNE 1, 2000, AND RECORD­ED IN PLAT BOOK 30, PAGE 239, DODGE COUN­TY RECORDS, SAID PLAT BE­ING IN­COR­PO­RAT­ED HERE­IN AND MADE A PART HERE­OF BY REF­ER­ENCE.
The debt se­cured by said Deed to Se­cure Debt has been and is here­by de­clared due be­cause of non-pay­ment of the in­debt­ed­ness when due and in the man­ner pro­vid­ed in the Note and Deed to Se­cure Debt. The debt re­main­ing in de­fault, the sale will be made for the pur­pose of pay­ing the same and all ex­pens­es of sale, as pro­vid­ed in the Deed to Se­cure Debt and by law, in­clud­ing at­tor­ney’s fees, no­tice of int­ent to col­lect at­tor­ney’s fee hav­ing been given.
Said prop­er­ty will be sold sub­ject to any out­stand­ing ad valor­em tax­es, any as­ses­sments, liens, en­cum­branc­es, zon­ing or­di­nanc­es, re­stric­tions, cov­en­ants, and mat­ters of record su­pe­ri­or to the Deed to Se­cure Debt first set out above.
To the best knowl­edge and be­lief of the un­der­signed, the par­ty in pos­ses­sion of the prop­er­ty is ES­TATE OF DA­VID CO­OP­ER, or a ten­ant or ten­ants, and said prop­er­ty com­mon­ly has an ad­dress of 3878 MI­LAN EAST­MAN ROAD, MI­LAN, GA 31060.
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 Deed to Se­cure Debt.
THE MER­CHANTS &
CIT­I­ZENS BANK
AT­TOR­NEY IN FACT FOR
DA­VID CO­OP­ER
C. LEE CAN­NON, JR.
CAN­NON LAW FIRM, LLC
AT­TOR­NEYS FOR
THE MER­CHANTS & CIT­I­ZENS BANK
POST OF­FICE BOX 270
MCRAE, GEOR­GIA 31055
PHONE - 229-868-6065
FAC­SI­MILE - 229-868-6063 [Full Story »] 

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NO­TICE OF PUB­LIC SALE
GEOR­GIA, DODGE COUN­TY

THIS IS AN AT­TEMPT TO COL­LECT A DEBT, AND ANY IN­FOR­MA­TION OB­TAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PUR­POSE.
UN­DER AND BY VIR­TUE of the pow­er of sale con­tained in that cer­tain se­cur­i­ty deed ex­e­cut­ed by HEN­RY MITCHELL MAT­TAIR AND KAY M. MAT­TAIR TO ROCHELLE STATE BANK dat­ed Fe­bru­ary 23, 2007, and record­ed Fe­bru­ary 26, 2007, in Deed Book 566, pag­es 270-274, Deed Records of Dodge Coun­ty, Geor­gia, and for the pur­pose of pay­ing the in­debt­ed­ness se­cured there­by, which is now due and pay­able, to­geth­er with the costs of sale, the un­der­signed will sell on the first Tues­day in Janu­ary, 2015, at pub­lic out­cry to the high­est bid­der for cash be­fore the court­house door in Dodge Coun­ty, Geor­gia, with­in the le­gal hours of sale, the fol­low­ing de­scribed prop­er­ty, to wit:
0.81 ACRE, MORE OR LESS, IN
LAND LOT 248 IN THE 14TH LAND DIS­TRICT OF DODGE COUN­TY, GEOR­GIA, AND BE­ING MORE PAR­TICU­LAR­LY DE­SCRIBED AS FOL­LOWS: TO LOCATE THE POINT OF BE­GIN­NING, START AT THE POINT OF IN­TER­SEC­TION OF THE CEN­TER­LINE OF U.S. HIGH­WAY NO. 280 WITH THE CEN­TER­LINE OF FAIR HA­VEN CHURCH ROAD A/K/A OLD EAST­MAN ROAD AND RUN THENCE IN A NORTH­ER­LY DI­REC­TION ALONG THE CEN­TER­LINE OF FAIR HA­VEN CHURCH ROAD A DIS­TANCE OF 289.0 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 80 DE­GREES 15 MINUTES 11 SEC­ONDS WEST 21.3 FEET TO A POINT ON THE WEST MAR­GIN OF THE RIGHT OF WAY OF FAIR HA­VEN CHURCH ROAD, WHICH POINT SHALL BE RE­FERRED TO AS THE POINT OF BE­GIN­NING; RUN­NING THENCE FROM SAID POINT OF BE­GIN­NING SOUTH 80 DE­GREES 15 MINUTES 11 SEC­ONDS WEST 236.87 FEET; THENCE NORTH 2 DE­GREES 1 MINUTE 3 SEC­ONDS WEST 166.53 FEET; THENCE NORTH 83 DE­GREES 32 MINUTES 39 SEC­ONDS EAST 58.00 FEET; THENCE NORTH 83 DE­GREES 31 MINUTES 30 SEC­ONDS EAST 152.00 FEET; THENCE IN A SOUTH­ER­LY DI­REC­TION ALONG THE WEST MAR­GIN OF THE RIGHT OF WAY OF FAIR HA­VEN CHURCH ROAD ALONG A CURVE TO THE LEFT HAV­ING A RA­DIUS OF 3202.88 FEET, AN ARC LENGTH OF 153.10 FEET, AND A CHORD BEAR­ING AND DIS­TANCE OF SOUTH 11 DE­GREES 33 MINUTES 5 SEC­ONDS EAST 153.09 FEET TO THE POINT OF BE­GIN­NING. SAID PROP­ER­TY IS MORE PAR­TICU­LAR­LY DE­SCRIBED ON THAT CER­TAIN PLAT OF SUR­VEY PRE­PARED FOR BAR­BARA R. HAR­DIN AND BREN­DA R. JA­MIE­SON BY OLIN J. MCLEOD, GEOR­GIA REG­IS­TERED LAND SUR­VEYOR DAT­ED DE­CEM­BER 4, 2006, RECORD­ED IN PLAT BOOK 36, PAGE 48, IN THE OF­FICE OF THE CLERK OF THE SU­PE­RI­OR COURT OF DODGE COUN­TY, GEOR­GIA.
THE PROP­ER­TY IS LO­CAT­ED IN DODGE COUN­TY, GEOR­GIA, AT 6136 FAIR HA­VEN CHURCH ROAD, RHINE, GA 31077-4110.
The said prop­er­ty will be sold sub­ject to (a) any and all tax­es and as­ses­sments lev­ied or as­sessed pri­or to the cur­rent year, (b) ad valor­em tax­es for the cur­rent year, (c) all liens, en­cum­branc­es, and oth­er mat­ters of record, if any, that are su­pe­ri­or to or have pri­or­i­ty over the se­cur­i­ty deed be­ing fore­closed, and (d) fin­al con­fir­ma­tion that at the time of the sale be­ing ad­ver­tised here­in there was no au­tomat­ic stay in ef­fect with re­spect to the above de­scribed prop­er­ty due to the fil­ing of a pe­ti­tion for re­lief un­der any chapt­er of the Unit­ed States Bank­rupt­cy Code with re­spect to a per­son hav­ing an in­ter­est in the above de­scribed prop­er­ty.
No­tice is here­by given that un­der the pro­vi­sions of O.C.G.A. § 9-13-172.1, the Se­cured Credi­tor may un­der cer­tain cir­cum­stanc­es re­scind the sale be­ing ad­ver­tised here­in, with­in 30 days
af­ter the sale but be­fore the fore­clo­sure deed or deed un­der pow­er has been de­liv­ered to the pur­chas­er at such sale. Un­less the sale is re­scind­ed as here­i­nabove pro­vid­ed, a con­veyance will be ex­e­cut­ed to the pur­chas­er at such
sale as au­thor­ized un­der the pow­er of sale con­tained in the Se­cur­i­ty Deed afore­said.
The name of the credi­tor as­sert­ing this claim against you is ROCHELLE STATE BANK. The credi­tor’s ad­dress is 800 ASH­LEY ST., P.O. BOX 188, ROCHELLE, GA 31079. The credi­tor’s tel­e­phone number is 229-365-2236. MATT ESTES, JR., is the credi­tor’s em­ployee at such lo­ca­tion who has the au­thor­i­ty to ne­go­tiate, amend, and mod­i­fy all of the terms of the fore­go­ing se­cur­i­ty deed and the in­debt­ed­ness se­cured there­by, although he is not ob­li­gat­ed to ne­go­tiate, amend, or mod­i­fy the said se­cur­i­ty deed or the in­debt­ed­ness se­cured there­by.
This 1st day of De­cem­ber, 2014.
Rochelle State Bank
as At­tor­ney in Fact for
Hen­ry Mitchell Mat­tair & Kay M. Mat­tair
JAY, SHER­RELL, SMITH & BRAD­DY, P.C.
AT­TOR­NEYS AT LAW
PO Box 308
Fitz­ger­ald, GA 31750-0308 [Full Story »] 

Age: 58

Died: Thursday, December 11, 2014

Arrangements: Lowe's Funeral Home of Helena has charge of arrangements.

Age: 90

Died: November 28, 2014

Arrangements: Rollins Funeral Home, Inc. of Eastman was in charge of arrangements.