6C — The Times-Herald — Thursday, January 1, 2009
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Sculpture installed at park • Michelle Garner Hall, 38, is arrested for the shooting death of her husband, John Britt Hall, 37. • Traffic on I-85 shifts to new lanes as interstate construction progresses in project continuing through 2009. • Derenda Rowe of One Roof outreach calls a meeting to discuss the growing problem of homelessness in Coweta County. Rowe predicts 100 more local families will be homeless by the end of the year. • Sarah Hinely starts to first grade at Atkinson School — following in the footsteps of her father, Stephen Hinely, and great-grandmother, Georgia Carter. • State Sen. Mitch Seabaugh announces he will not seek the post of president pro-tem of the Georgia Senate. • Christopher Deon Fendley, 21, aquitted of murder earlier in Photo by Amy Lott the year, is sentenced to 10 American Idol runner-up years in prison for crack David Archuleta, 17, films cocaine offenses. scenes for his first music • The first day of school for video at Wynn s Pond. the 2008-2009 term sees 20,898 students arrive at Coweta’s schools. and the Coweta County • Newnan’s Mike Winter Commission each contribute trains in Hong Kong for eques- $125,000 for the Veterans Plaza trian events with Canadian project. team in the 2008 Olympics. • A National Register of • A total of 86 people attend Historic Places nomination — the organizational meeting for prepared by Linda Bridges-Kee, the Friends of Chattahoochee Main Street Newnan director, Bend State Park. and local historian Elizabeth • Yellow ribbons welcome Beers — for Oak Hill Cemetery Lee Barnett, a Navy reservist, is submitted to the state. home after a tour in Iraq. • Infinite Campus, a new • Some Cowetans find work computer system, is unveiled at the massive Kia plant under by the Coweta County School construction in Troup County. System. The project enables • “Lady of the House,” a parents to monitor grades, consculpture by Carol Harless, is duct and assignments online. installed at the new Greenville • Judge Chris Edwards disStreet Park. misses a recall petition filed • Newnan attorney Graylin against Grantville Mayor Casey Ward is appointed to the Houston. Coweta County Board of • Linh Wight, who was Education to succeed Brian unable to attend school as a Roy, who moved out of the child in Vietnam, is among the county. graduates receiving General • Jimmy and Jane Equivalency Diplomas at the Hutchinson are honored as Centre for Performing and grand marshals at the annual Visual Arts. Tractor Pull in Turin. • Laura Stokes celebrates her • Newnan City Council 104th birthday at Avalon Health approves a $1.5 million contract and Rehabilitation. with Headley Construction to • Henry Blackaby, the author restore the Carnegie Library. of the best-selling • The Newnan City Council “Experiencing God,” speaks at
Mills Chapel Baptist Church. • Records show foreclosure rates for Coweta County are higher than the national average. • Darlene Lewis, parent of a Newnan Crossing Elementary School student, asks Coweta County Board of Education to consider putting a sidewalk near the school. • Descendants of slaves who worked on the William Boyd Pinson plantation travel from several states to Coweta County and visit Cedar Hill, the home he built near Moreland. • State School Superintendent Kathy Cox visits with students at Elm Street Elementary School and Evans Middle School. • “American Idol” runner-up David Archuleta, 17, films scenes for his first music video at Wynn’s Pond. • Merchants in Sharpsburg say work on the Streetscapes project is hurting their business. • Wrecks on I-85 stall the morning commute for Cowetans. • U. S. Sen. Johnny Isakson visits Newnan and speaks to the Newnan Rotary Club about the Gang of 10 plan to address a wide range of issues. • Coweta County Fire Chief Dennis Hammond is named to head the county’s new public safety department. • An overflow crowd attends the opening of the Barack Obama presidential campaign headquarters in downtown Newnan. • Robert “Wes” McCleary, a truck driver for Foley Products, is recognized for rescuing a man from a burning truck on I20 in Alabama. • Moreland City Councilman Josh Evans qualifies to become mayor Jan. 1 and has no opposition. • Newnan Police officers arrest 15 people in three drug busts. • Harold Alonzo Space, 45, is sentenced to 10 years for child pornography. • More than 300 people participate in the downtown Newnan Festival Days Road Race.
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