UPDATED: Budget woes could hit Commerce school staff, programs

Posted by
Mark Beardsley
in News, Top Stories
Friday, November 14. 2008
Comment (1)
If the state’s revenue shortfall dips to what one expert expects it to, the budget ax could fall on programs and teachers at Commerce City Schools next year.
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UPDATED: BJC Medical Center to quit delivering babies

Posted by
Mark Beardsley
in News, Top Stories
Wednesday, November 12. 2008
Comments (17)
Trying to shave its operating deficit, BJC Medical Center is closing its labor and delivery services, leaving three doctors scrambling to make alternative arrangements for patients.

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UPDATED: Vehicle strikes bicyclist on Maysville Road

Posted by
Mark Beardsley
in News, Top Stories
Tuesday, November 11. 2008
Comments (2)
A Jackson County man hit while riding his bicycle on Hwy. 98 a quarter mile east of Yarbrough-Ridgeway Road was transported to Athens Regional Medical Center Tuesday night.

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Taste Of Jackson Draws A Crowd

Posted by
Administrator
in News, Top Stories
Thursday, November 6. 2008
Comments (0)
The Jackson County Area Chamber of Commerce's annual Taste of Jackson/Business Showcase drew a large crowd to the Commerce Civic Center Thursday night. [ Full Story » ] 

UPDATED: Solid red: no Obama coattails in Jackson

Posted by
Mark Beardsley
in News, Top Stories
Wednesday, November 5. 2008
Comments (16)
America may have elected Barack Obama president in a landslide Tuesday, but the Democrat’s coattails did not extend to Georgia, and certainly not to Jackson County.
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Jackson County Election Results

Posted by
Staff Writer
in News, Top Stories
Tuesday, November 4. 2008

As of 12:25 a.m., with 18 of 18 precincts reporting. Further updates will be made as results are announced by county officials.

President of the United States
Votes
John McCain President
Sarah Palin Vice-President
(Republican)		17,772
Barack Obama President
Joe Biden Vice-President
(Democrat)		4,947
Bob Barr President
Wayne A. Root Vice-President
(Libertarian)		215
Other0
United States Senate
Votes
Saxby Chambliss
(Incumbent Republican)		15,765
Jim Martin
(Democrat)		5,414
Allen Buckley
(Libertarian)		1,048
Other0
U.S. Congress District 10
Votes
Paul Broun
(Incumbent Republican)		16,166
Bobby Saxon
(Democrat)		5,964
Other0
State Senator District 47Votes
Ralph T. Hudgens
(Incumbent Republican)		13,275
Tim Riley
(Democrat)		4,715
Other0















Heavy voter turnout expected as campagin nears end

Posted by
Mark Beardsley
in News, Top Stories
Wednesday, October 29. 2008
Comment (1)
The end is near — the end of a long, long presidential campaign, that is.

Record numbers of voters are expected to go to the polls next week. Indeed, 20 percent of Jackson County’s voters have already cast their ballots, thanks to early and advance voting opportunities.

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Ghosts, goblins to be on prowl Friday afternoon

Posted by
Mark Beardsley
in News, Top Stories
Wednesday, October 29. 2008
Comments (8)
Downtown Commerce will be packed with goblins, ghosts and doubtlessly a Sarah Palin and a Barack Obama or two Friday evening.
But they won’t be asking for your vote.



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Saxon says he's gaining on Broun

Posted by
Mark Beardsley
in News, Top Stories
Monday, October 27. 2008
Comment (1)
Democratic candidate Major Bobby Saxon says he is closing the gap in the race for Georgia’s 10th Congressional District, showing a difference of less than ten percent in an internal poll.

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Bank robbery suspect captured Thursday

Posted by
Mark Beardsley
in Public Safety, Top Stories
Thursday, October 23. 2008
Comment (1)
Officials arrested a South Carolina man Thursday afternoon about a half hour after the armed robbery of the Banks Crossing branch of Northeast Georgia Bank following a chase that began in Commerce and ended in the median of U.S. 441 a few hundred yards from the Athens-Clarke County line.
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