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COALGATE LADY CATS 3RD PLACE STUART TOURNAMENT.
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Coal County Emergency Management Director Aaron Blue has advised that the burn ban that has been in effect for several weeks is currently dropped.
Read moreBeth Wright, Vice President, recently graduated from the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin, the nation’s leading and most progressive banking school. On August 12, Wright attended a graduation ceremony alongside her fellow graduates in Wisconsin. The banking school graduate program extends over three years, with a curriculum designed to push beyond theory and put key concepts to work in the real world of community banking.
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Some photo opportunities are just too good to pass up. This one on August 18, for example. By pure chance, I pulled into the Coal County Election Board parking lot at the same time a Coalgate fire truck and ambulance came to a stop across the street at the mail drop box behind the post office. Then, firefighters opened a fire truck compartment, pulled out an axe and other tools, headed straight to the drop box and began hacking and sawing away. What in the world is going on? I ask myself. Only one way to find out - go over there and take a look. Can’t say the firefighters (Lincoln McKenney and Andrew Lee) were overjoyed to see a reporter with a camera around her neck, but they continued with their task at hand – removing the box and cutting it open so the mail inside could be retrieved. Postmaster Jeromy Thomas said it appeared that a vehicle had hit the box from the street side. A new box will be installed, he said, but he has not yet received word as to when he’ll receive it.
Read moreCoalgate man arrested for possession of marijuana Stephen Paul Shores, 43, Coalgate, was arrested shortly after 4:00 a.m. August 18 after a deputy was run off the roadway by a vehicle driven by Shores.
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