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City approves $37 million FY 2021 budget

Rose Scoggins
Tuesday, June 2, 2020
The mayor and council of the City of Elberton approved a budget of more than $37 million Monday night for the upcoming 2021 fiscal year, with over 60 percent of the budget going towards the Combined Public Utilities System.
Carrie Jill Peppers is escorted by four detention center officers to the front of the Elbert County courthouse Monday morning to attend her first appearance hearing after being arrested and charged with murder in the second degree and cruelty to children in the second degree.

Carrie Jill Peppers is escorted by four detention center officers to the front of the Elbert County courthouse Monday morning to attend her first appearance hearing after being arrested and charged with murder in the second degree and cruelty to children in the second degree.

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Murder charge

Gary Jones
Tuesday, June 2, 2020
Elbert County Magistrate Court Lanie Simmons conducted a first appearance hearing Tuesday morning for Carrie Jill Peppers, 30, of 1602 Hartwell Highway, who was arrested Sunday and is being charged with murder in the second degree and cruelty to children in the second degree in connection with the...
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Increase request

Rose Scoggins
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Sheriff Melvin Andrews told the Elbert County Board of Commissioners (BOC) at a budget work session last week that as of May 21, the Elbert County Detention Center has no more cases of coronavirus (COVID-19).
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Two 6-year-olds, 12-year-old are COVID-19 positive

Gary Jones
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Of the 69 people in Elbert County who are confirmed as testing positive for COVID-19 by Elbert County’s Emergency Management Agency (EMA), three children have been reported as coming down with the virus, according to EMA Director Chuck Almond.
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FCC OKs Atlanta DMA for ‘orphan’ counties

Rose Scoggins
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruled in favor of three of the four northeast Georgia “orphan” counties May 20 by approving the petition for the designated market area (DMA) modification changes to switch over from the South Carolina broadcast stations to those in Georgia.
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EMH resolution approved by teleconference

Rose Scoggins
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
The Elbert Memorial Hospital Authority Board finally approved a resolution Friday afternoon that says Elbert Memorial Hospital (EMH) operates like a 501c3 non-profit organization and qualifies for the status but chooses not to be classified as one.
Madison Harpold

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Valedictorian Harpold will miss the connections made at ECCHS

Rose Scoggins
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Madison Harpold humbly admits she never expected to be the Valedictorian of Elbert County Comprehensive High School’s (ECCHS) senior Class of 2020.  “I did not expect it. I honestly don’t feel like I deserved as much as the other kids I was competing with academically,” Harpold said.
Lexie Partain

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As Third Honor Grad, Partain reaches her four-year goal

Rose Scoggins
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
For the past four years, Lexie Partain’s goal was to be one of the top three students in Elbert County Comprehensive High School’s (ECCHS) Class of 2020. She’d walk past the wall at ECCHS where former students’ photos hung on the wall and knew she wanted to be on it one day.