The 4 Cherokee Regional Library branches are cutting 3 employees, benefits for 3 more, reducing hours for 9, and dropping operating hours to 30 per week. Looks like Monday & Wednesday closures. Still more details to work out.

“‘County [Schools] has never paid its fair share,’ library trustee Donna Street said, comparing it unfavorably to the Dade County School District, which gives $38,000 annually but only has about a third the number of students.”

But they aren’t required to pay ANY share – the article notes that Catoosa schools pay nothing to the libraries there because the county covers everything. She’s not saying Bebe or Dade Co are unfair for only paying half the budget..

Like it or not, eventually this will turn into a separate property tax bill designated to support the library system.

More Bebe! Campaign Material Vandalism:

Again, we don’t condone vandalism.. But they should have known this would happen to a banner hanging at street level in town.

This one is hanging on the fence around old Barwick Mills on West Main Street.

Style points for matching the hair color, more or less, but lose points for the mustache being upside down.

OmniSource Staffing has 320 jobs to fill fast, looking for 80 people to start next week at $9. No idea what you’d be doing but if you need work, this is worth pursuing.

Thanks Bebe!

(No, she has nothing to do with this.)

A LaFayette man has been charged with “false imprisonment” after holding his lady friend hostage last week.

Beginning July 1, anyone who provides services to children in any capacity (school, church, non-profit, community group) will be defined as a “mandatory reporter” in Georgia, required by law to report signs of child abuse to the authorities.

As the law says, anyone in that kind of role should already be doing this, but now the law makes it mandatory. ..Getting the authorities to actually pay attention is another matter entirely.

Failure to report abuse is considered a misdemeanor.

A Menlo man’s Windstream router caught fire early Monday morning. Windstream apparently won’t take responsibility for the fire or replace the box. We’ve heard of electronics like this overheating before; might be a good idea to occasionally check on the temperature of cheap electronics that stay on 24/7.

Simplified tax laws result in more business activity – changes in Ga’s rules have made a difference, although (as we can see here in Walker) the impact isn’t being spread equally.

Should they put a limit on the number of times somebody can win the lottery? Probably not, but if this guy wins a third time maybe he’ll share it with us.

Georgia Unfiltered Blog: “..in Georgia, seniors and those with a college degree have the highest voting rate. 51% of Georgians 65 and older voted in the 2010 election. ..The voting rate of Georgians with at least a bachelor’s degree was 56 percent.”

Chattooga Radio 1180, 06/06/12: “The Department of Corrections honored Hays State Prison as Facility of the Year at the Eighth Annual GDC Awards ceremony on Tuesday, May 29, 2012 at State Offices South at Tift College in Forsyth, Georgia.”

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