FBC opens heat shelter
By Elizabeth Billips Associate Editor
      First Baptist Church is offering relief from the summer heat. With forecasts topping the 100s, church members have decided to turn their fellowship hall into a short term heat shelter for residents without air conditioning. According to associate pastor Don Veldboom, the Liberty Street facility ...
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Underage beer sales
Store gets reprimand instead of suspension
By Elizabeth Billips Associate Editor
      Waynesboro City Council came close to suspending the beer and wine license of a gas station where a teenager bought beer - but decided, instead, on a reprimand. Last month, the Waynesboro Police Department launched an undercover operation after an officer spotted a 17-year-old coming out of Stop...
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City worker injured in freak accident with voting machine
By Elizabeth Billips Associate Editor
      Waynesboro's water plant operator was seriously injured last week when he took a spill with a voting machine. Reginal Hanton was unloading the 500-pound machine from a pick-up bed when he was knocked to the pavement with the machine on top of him.
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Drinking hours stay the same … for now
By Elizabeth Billips Associate Editor
      Waynesboro's last call for alcohol will remain at 11 p.m., at least for now. Monday, city council was prepared to vote on the first reading of an amended alcohol ordinance that would push the cut-off time for poured and packaged drinks to 2 a.m.
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$37,000 going, $53,000 gone
Waynesboro council approves borrower
By Elizabeth Billips Associate Editor
      Waynesboro finally has a taker. For months, city officials have been trying to loan out the $90,000 sitting in its Revolving Loan Fund (RLF). Monday night, city council unanimously agreed to loan it to David and June Johnson, a Douglasville couple who wants to move to Waynesboro and open "Foreve...
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Trout Street catches some attention
Funding approved for repair of crumbling roadway
By Anne Marie Kyzer Staff Writer
      Midville drivers may soon be able to travel down Trout Street again. A portion of the street has been blocked off for some time due to a large wash in the road- way. The Georgia Department of Transportation recently approved funds for repairing the road, city council member Scotty Womack announ...
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Slow summer market? Speed up the sale
By Barbara Ballinger CTW Features
      Since the start of the year, many sellers have been jittery - and for good reason. Back in January, new-home sales made a significant one-month plunge of 16.6 percent, according to the U.S. Commerce Department.
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Does it pay to pay off that mortgage early?
A few extra bucks here and there may cut down your loan term, but will it also wilt your wallet?
By Charles Scutt CTW Features
      At first thought, it may not make much sense to rob Peter to pay Paul, as they say. But when Paul is charging more than 6 percent interest over 30 years, pilfering from old Pete to emancipate from profit-happy Paul can suddenly make a lot of cents - especially as this metaphor relates to home mor...
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Real Estate Transactions
      Burke County property transfers for April 24-27. The date indicates when the transfer was recorded in the Burke County clerk's office. Berdia Mae Hobbs to James C. Overstreet Jr.
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