Statham News

The following individuals were arrested and booked into theA Barrow County Detention Center from Feb.

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Feb. 5A Eric J. Mitchell, 22, of Covington, was charged with probation violation.

The City of Statham Police Department is conducting a series of neighborhood watch meetings for residents.

For anyone age 12 and older interested in the Civil Air Patrol's programs, visit www.ga160.org/Join.htm . Cadets meet 7-9 p.m. every Tuesday and senior members first and third Tuesdays at the American Legion Post 7 at 2343 Riverside Drive.

Statham police officers are asking area residents to keep an eye out for anyone acting suspiciously around their cars after several people have reported gas missing from their tanks.

Nothing was stolen from one man's Chevrolet Monte Carlo, but some of his belongings were laying on the ground near the vehicle.

The city of Statham is a Barrow County municipality awash in history. Like many small towns and cities in the South during the late 1800s, Statham grew up out of the railroad tracks that snaked their way through North Georgia.

The following individuals were arrested and booked into theA Barrow County Detention Center A from Jan.

The Barrow County Museum will host a group of Civil War re-enactors from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today as they set up a living history display that features weapons, clothing and cooking items used during the war.

The I-Pad was in an area that was not covered by the store's surveillance cameras and was worth about $652. DISCHARGE OF A FIREARM: A Barrow deputy responded to an Old Hog Mountain Road house around 7 p.m. Jan.

Statham city workers should start work this week on the long awaited Statham Dog Park in Furr Lane Park off of Dooley Town Road.

Statham Elementary students in third, fourth, and fifth grade competed against each other in the recent school-wide Spelling Bee, with Hope Bramlett ultimately coming out on top.

The following individuals were arrested and booked into theA Barrow County Detention Center A from Jan.

DESERTION: Barrow County deputies arrested a 23-year-old Statham man around 7:15 p.m. on Jan.

Barrow residents can purchase packaged beer and wine on Sundays in Auburn and Winder, and now Statham residents can decide if their city will follow suit.

The Statham City Council have now turned the issue of Sunday alcohol sales over to the voters.

Rather than limit their responsibility to the community to include merely performing traffic duty, chasing bad guys and responding to calls for assistance, officers with the Statham Police Department take a much broader view of their jobs as law enforcers.

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Jimmy Lee Garrett, 68, died Saturday, January 14, 2012. Born in Jefferson, he was the son Margie Blackmon of Statham and the late Ernest Garrett.