10B — The Times-Herald — Saturday, January 1, 2011
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Coweta Samaritan Clinic gets home ■ Sharpsburg resident James “Ivey” Godbee Sr. is among six American World War II veterans receiving the Legion of Honor from the Consul General of France in special ceremonies. Godbee served as Corporal in the 348th Quartermaster Depot Company with the American armed forces in World War II. ■ Coweta voters select “Moms for School Board” candidates Amy Dees and April Parker as the board’s newest members. Jim Sells is elected mayor of Grantville. ■ Real estate developer Stan Thomas assures public that plans for Cancer Treatment Centers of America hospital in Newnan will be worked out, despite his financial standing. ■ Coweta Samaritan Clinic, a planned free health clinic, finds a home in the Coweta County Health Department on Jackson Street, once the health department staff moves into its new location on Hospital Road. ■ The Newnan High Cougars push through to defeat East Coweta’s Indians 14-12, winning their 8th straight meeting between the two. ■ Newnan Civitan Club disbands, but leaves a legacy by donating vans to the Rutledge Center. ■ Newnan city employees undergo a mandatory culture sensitivity training session, prompted by the filing of two claims of discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. ■ Newnan approves a rental car tax to help pay for a proposed conference center on Lower Fayetteville Road. ■ Former Moreland Mayor Sara Haynes, a beloved Coweta citizen, dies in early November. ■ Donald Joseph Miller pleads guilty in Coweta Superior Court to malice murder in the 2009 death of 77year-old Betsill Phillips. He receives a life sentence.
■ Absenteeism at Coweta schools is on the rise due to confirmed cases of the ■ Newnan officials consider influenza B strain. ■ Courtney Lockhart is reverse angle parking but convicted in the slaying of an soon drop the idea. ■ Steel work on new Auburn University student. Piedmont Newnan Hospital Lockhart was also suspected off Poplar Road at I-85 nears in a robbery attempt in a completion. Beam signing cer- Newnan parking lot. Newnan emony held. police assisted in the investi■ Foreclosures in The gation. Times-Herald hit a new ■ Senior U.S. District Court record high for November, Judge Jack Camp of Coweta crossing over the 300 mark for County enters a guilty plea to the first time ever. two misdemeanor counts, and ■ Coweta County School one count of aiding and abetSuperintendent Blake Bass ting another’s drug possesannounces his retirement. Steve Barker, current adminis- sion. He resigns as a federal judge. trative services director, ■ Clearing is set to begin on named successor. ■ James Goodrum is named Lower Fayetteville Road in preparation to put the Veteran of the Year locally in the ceremonies held at Newnan Conference Center Veterans Memorial Plaza. project out to bid. ■ West Georgia Technical ■ Newnan’s Oak Hill College’s Coweta campus Cemetery is named to the receives a $20,000 donation National Register of Historic from Coweta-Fayette EMC. Places. The designation was ■ Newnan Hospital pursued tirelessly by local hisFoundation gives $1 million to torian Elizabeth Beers and the Coweta Samaritan Clinic Main Street’s Linda Kee. in the form of annual operat■ Plans for a third new hosing funds of $100,000. pital in Coweta are announced ■ Coweta Animal Shelter — to be a HealthSouth facility receives a donation of offering rehabilitation therapy. $125,000 from the Holland M. ■ Grantville hires Mike Ware Charitable Foundation. Renshaw as its new city man■ Approval of cell towers ager, and Clyburn Halley Jr. as becomes an issue for the the town’s new police chief. Coweta County Commission with extensive public com■ Newnan Community ment. The county approves Development Director one tower on Parks Road, and Cleatus Phillips is named tables approval for another finalist for the position of nearby. Newnan city manager. ■ Chamber of Commerce ■ Intersection improvement announces support of extend- project at Sprayberry Road, ing E-SPLOST, the special Roscoe Road and Jackson sales tax for Coweta schools. Streets may be in jeopardy ■ Georgia Supreme Court due to unexpected expense in comes to Newnan to hold sesmoving utilities, say Newnan sion in the courtroom of the City officials. historic Coweta County ■ Smokey Road Middle Courthouse. School is named a 2011 ■ Town of Moreland plans to celebrate its 122nd birthday MetLife Foundation National Association of Secondary at a Nov. 23 open house. School Principals ■ Coweta Board of Breakthrough School, only one Commissioners approves a special use permit for a cell of five middle schools in the tower on Lora Smith Road. nation to receive the honor.
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