Comer News

A small crowd turned out Feb. 2 for a pollution permitting hearing for Transco pipeline, which operates a station in Comer that forces natural gas through a pipeline that extends from the Gulf of Mexico up the east coast.

WEAPON CHARGE: On Jan. 30, Sgt. Mark Jerome was dispatched to Madison County Middle School, where a student was found carrying a large pocketknife.

A manager of a supermarket on Athens' Eastside caught a 45-year-old Comer woman stealing cough medicine Tuesday afternoon, Athens-Clarke police said.

A 19-year-old burglary suspect remains on the lam after he escaped today while helping Madison County deputies recover stolen property from his home, Madison County Sheriff Kip Thomas said.

TRESPASSING: On Jan. 3, Deputy Josh Fowler was dispatched to Bugg Road, Hull, where a resident of a small trailer park saw two heavy-set older women apparently attempting to remove some tin from an unoccupied trailer.