Lamar County News

On both Saturday, November 21st from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, November 22nd from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at The Villas on Forsyth the Barnesville-Lamar County Humane Society will be offering pet pictures with Santa.

On Halloween local pet owners let the dogs out. Many of them could be found at the first Count Barkula Halloween dog costume contest held at Ritz Park.

The Return, a Beatles tribute band, will be in concert at the new Lamar County Fine Arts Center Thursday, Nov.

The reward fund for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever killed Griffin K-9 officer Jimi is now up to $8,000. Jimi, the partner of Griffin police officer Chad Moxon, a Lamar County resident, was shot between Monday, Nov.

Notice, Probate Court of Lamar County RE: Petition of Charlie Frank Ham to probate in solemn form the will of John Thomas Ham, deceased, and for Letters of Administration with will annexed, upon which an order for service was granted by this court on Oct.

A Barnesville man and his girlfriend are now cooling their heels at the Lamar County jail after he fled a courtroom appearance after being ordered by Judge Tommy Wilson to take a drug test.

Testimony in hearings on several motions filed by embattled Morehouse police chief Vernon Worthy got underway at 1:15 today in Lamar superior court.

The Beatles tribute band The Return is performing at the Lamar County Schools Fine Arts Center in Barnesville on November 19 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10.00 each but this is your chance to win a free pair of tickets courtesy of The Herald-Gazette and the Fine Arts Center.

Two Lamar countians deployed with the 48th Brigade in Afghanistan were among those meeting with Georgia Gov.

Rep. Billy Maddox delivered the keynote address Wednesday at the annual Veterans Day observance in Barnesville.

The Lamar County commission honored the late Marty Jackson, a Barnesville police officer who died of a heart attack August 12, at its regular meeting November 10.

A three-vehicle crash at the deadly intersection of highways 18 & 341 in Barnesville left four people, including two children, injured Tuesday morning.

The Atlanta Humane Society has added $5,000 to the reward offered for information leading to the arrest of the person who shot and killed a Griffin Police Department German shepherd.

Yager, left, and Jimi, a K9 with the Griffin Police Department, were both reported missing Tuesday by Cpl.

Griffin police officer Chad Moxon, a Lamar County resident, has offered a $500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those who kidnapped and killed his partner Jimmy.

The number of delinquent Lamar County property tax payers, more than 630 a month ago, has shrunk to the 160 property owners now facing tax lien sales.

In the Barnesville city council election Tuesday, November 3, challenger Mark Stone defeated incumbent Cecil Butch McDaniel in the Ward 5 race.

Acting on a tip from a concerned citizen, Milner police chief Jake Sutton was able to arrest an alleged burglar within minutes of his having broken into Greater Spring Hill Baptist Church at 117 Locust Street Monday.

L & H LawnCare's Owners have years of experience in professional Lawn Care. Wesley Hunt Jr.

The Lamar County sheriffa s office has begun a new program targeted at young drivers.