Sunday, January 1, 2017 | The Newnan Times-Herald — 3D
• Republican frontrunner Donald Trump wins each Coweta precinct, taking almost 38 percent of the total with 9,593 votes. Tried Cruz finishes second with 6,445. Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton wins every precinct with 4,356 votes. Bernie Sanders received 2,233 votes.
Councilwoman Ruby Hines at a March 3 hearing. • Newnan City Council approves using more than $4 million from its unallocated funds to cover the deficit for several capital projects, including the Howard Warner complex project.
• Pat Wilson takes over the helm as the new fire chief of Coweta • Dr. Scott Ross is named new County after being hired by the executive director of campus operacounty commissioners in February tions for the West Georgia Techni2016. cal College’s Coweta Campus. • A f ingerprinting station is • Northgate High School graduapproved for the Coweta County ates and Georgia Tech students Zack P robate Cou r t. T he stat ion is Braun and Tyler Sisk take first place designed for weapons permits only. in the Georgia Tech Inventure Prize competition. • Senoia’s police off icers are approved to wear body cameras. • While investigating an auto The 12 body-mount cameras would accident, Newnan Police Officer be purchased with money donated Van Meadows disables a runaway to the department by a local aviation car with a 9-year-old child inside. company president. • A Newnan teenager dies after • The family of a Florida man being pulled from t he Chattawho died after a confrontation with hoochee River. Alyssa Calhoun, 14, Coweta County Sheriff’s Office dep- and her sister, age 6, had been riduties hire an attorney, who is pre- ing down the river on a swim noodle paring a suit against Coweta County when they fell off and lost control. and the sheriff’s office. • A husband and wife are arrested • The Meriwether County Sher- after authorities seize moonshine iff ’s Office is investigating after and cocaine in a “party house” human remains are found in a located on their property. wooded area in Luthersville. • The state of Georgia withdraws • The city of Grantville’s Ethics its request for an arrest warrant for Board dismisses complaints against the woman accused of improperly
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ABOVE While wearing the Fire HUD, created by Georgia Tech students Zack Braun and Tyler Sisk, firefighters can see their vital signs, a compass heading, and the external temperature while they are fighting fires. The information can also be transmitted to their incident commander.
PHOTO BY COWETA COUNTY
RIGHT Chief Pat Wilson
disciplining a Pre-K student during a probable cause hearing in the Coweta County Magistrate Court. • Federal Bankruptcy Judge W. Homer Drake Jr. and Norma Haynes are honored at the 2016 Golden Eagle Dinner. The event is held each year by the Flint River Council of the Boy Scouts of America.
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