Multiple vehicles damaged in a parking lot break-in, Thursday at Bangz.

Thieves took wallets and various items out of cars after shattering windows parked at the South Main hair salon in broad daylight.

In an unrelated (?) crime a week earlier, a trailer was stolen from South Main St. Lost property valued at about $500.

South Main isn’t some side street, it’s the most traveled and most visible section of road in town – but criminals are brazenly destroying property and stealing from citizens anyway. Sounds like LPD needs to worry more about getting out on the street and less about their coffee in the Public Safety building.     

Walker County sets itself up for a massive workers comp lawsuit by claiming the current tag office is a death trap filled with mold and disease – all to justify spending money we don’t have on a new building in Rock Spring.

The former hospital building in town that currently houses the tag office and a handful of other county agencies is supposedly so horrible, but the health inspector – who knows mold better than anyone – wishes to stay there.

LaFayette government sources also say the city is “interested” in taking control of the property because their own inspection reveals the building is in good condition.

The county is using some neglected maintenance issues (which are the Commissioner’s responsibility) as an excuse to spend a lot of money we don’t have on something we don’t need. The proverbial mountain made from a mole hill.

Maybe there IS some mold and mildew but you don’t give your house away and buy one ten times bigger because there’s something growing on the shower tile. And all these wild claims about the building’s condition open the door to a lawsuit from anybody who’s worked there in the last twenty years who ever gets cancer or lung disease or any number of other health issues that might be connected to mold.

Bebe would claim the sun cold and the sky green if necessary to justify her wild spending.   

Rock Spring man arrested in LaFayette last week for aggressive driving.

Per police reports, Sean Travis Ferguson chased and then pitched a pickle out his car window at another vehicle that allegedly cut him off.

Ferguson, who’s an awfully pleasant individual, clarified on Facebook that he didn’t actually throw a pickle at the car, but a half-eaten hamburger.   

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Last week Chattanooga Street Tavern redeemed itself (maybe) from its failing health score of early April, earning a 97.

Inspectors visiting the bar on April 28th found only one reportable issue: management still lacking legally-required ServSafe training. The rodent problems, moldy/expired food, animals being fed in dining areas, broken sink, and other problems observed on April 14th were no longer apparent.

But that doesn’t mean the facility is now safe. The Tavern has a pattern of earning good scores on reinspection after a failure – the business (under previous management) failed its December health score too, with a 69, then scraped by with an 89 during recheck in January.

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Last Friday fire claimed a house on Probasco St.

A family was burned out, losing their home, most of their possessions, and the family dog.

Firemen from LaFayette FD and Walker State Prison took time to give the animal a proper burial in the back yard after it was located.

Thanks, gentlemen, for your service – both with the fire and this extra act of kindness.     

Nathan Deal flew into Walker this morning. The Governor visited students at the county agriculture center in Rock Spring before ceremonially signing “Tanja’s Law” at the adjacent Civic Center.

Deal’s wife Sandra was in town a week earlier, stopping by LaFayette Middle School.     

LPD has finally released the name of their suspect in the alleged April 19th standoff/domestic situation on Wisteria Rd. It’s the same name LU got an hour after the incident (but was asked not to share) – Sean Patrick Walker.

[LU’s network of sources dug up this photo, which has been verified as Mr. Walker. Sorry for the quality, this is so far the only pic of Walker anyone has been able to locate.]

Walker is not considered dangerous for some reason; anyone aware of his location is asked to call LPD at 706 639 1540 or dial 911.     

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Late last night fire claimed a home on Kemp Rd. in Naomi near Dry Creek Baptist Church.

Per news reports, the blaze was reported a little after 10 PM. The home’s sole occupant was hospitalized for smoke inhalation. Structure sustained heavy damage. Cause of the fire has yet to be determined.     

LaFayette leaders say fears about big changes at the city cemetery are overblown.

WQCH Radio, 04/19/15: “WITH THE CHANGE OF DEPARTMENT HEADS OVER PUBLIC WORKS CAME COMPLAINTS TO THE CITY COUNCIL ABOUT THE LAFAYETTE CEMETERY. [Last Tuesday] NIGHT, CITIZENS CONFRONTED THE COUNCIL CLAIMING THAT THE INTERIM PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR HAD SAID THAT DECORATIONS AND MEMORIAL ITEMS WILL BE REMOVED FROM GRAVE SITES.

“THE COUNCIL HEARD SIMILAR COMPLAINTS SEVERAL YEARS AGO – AND APPOINTED A CEMETERY COMMITTEE TO ‘SPELL OUT’ THE LIMITATIONS OF WHAT CAN AND CANNOT BE PLACED AT GRAVE SITES. A SYSTEM WAS PUT IN PLACE ALLOWING SOME ITEMS TO BE PERMANENTLY DISPLAYED, WITH WRITTEN PERMISSION BY THE CEMETERY COMMITTEE.

“MAYOR ANDY ARNOLD SAID NOTHING WILL BE REMOVED WITHOUT FAMILIES FIRST BEING NOTIFIED. CITY MANAGER DAVID HAMILTON ASKED THOSE WITH COMPLAINTS TO MEET WITH HIM TO WORK OUT A SOLUTION.”

Considering how badly the cemetery has been handled in the past, nobody can blame people for worrying about changes there. The city’s current cemetery rules seem to be more consistent and fair than in past years, but many remain unsatisfied and are likely to remain so.   

Looks like LU struck a nerve in the Commissioner’s office, among people who won’t admit to reading the blog.. This screenshot of Monday’s Update, using a screenshot from last week, was put on Heiskell’s Facebook page Monday evening.

The Commissioner says here she moved county business meetings to 3 PM because people didn’t like them at 10 AM. But nobody asked for them at 3, they asked for them during hours when they could attend – 3 ain’t that.

Heiskell claims she has community meetings people can attend, but didn’t have a single one last year. She’s lying here about having them every year.

She also says other counties meet at night because their commissioners have “day jobs.” (She says that like it’s a bad thing.) Maybe we need to find Walker a commissioner with a “day job” too, so the meetings are accessible.

Bebe is welcome to come here to the blog and comment, so are her supporters. They’re also welcome to comment on LU Facebook. Unfortunately LU and others in the county are NOT welcome to comment on Heiskell’s page, and neither is anyone else who asks hard questions or disagrees with her (her being whoever runs her Facebook and prints her e-mails).

[Will “Bebe” make a screenshot of this screenshot of her screenshot of LU’s screenshot and put it on Facebook and comment on it?]   

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What happened Sunday afternoon in Meadowview Subdivision?

Apparently a domestic conflict turned violent, with a man threatening to kill himself, shoot cops, and burn down his home.

911 was called, and about half an hour after the incident began, LPD arrived at the Wisteria Rd. home with a SWAT team and state patrol officers. They called to the suspect and fired tear gas at the house – later discovering nobody was inside and the man had fled.

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Police say the suspect will be named after charges have been filed against him. He remains at-large, but authorities insist he’s not a threat to the general community because he’s only threatened himself and police (plus beat down his mother).   

Another example of Hutcheson quality.

Per an LU reader, this was in an ER exam room Saturday morning at 2 AM. Hutcheson staff told the patient it must have come from her, even though it was present when she walked in the room and she hadn’t touched the bed.

Save Hutcheson? How about clean it up?   

Attendance at Thursday’s commissioner meeting, focused on the Rock Spring bank building, was typically light. When asked online why the meeting was held at a time inconvenient for 90% of residents, the Commissioner (or her Facebook handler) said it’s to keep from paying employees overtime.

They can spend millions on buildings and land nobody asked for without batting an eye, but Heiskell holds meetings at the worst possible time for working adults to save money? Yeah right.

Bebe doesn’t worry about overtime when county employees are working 70 hour weeks setting up events at the Farm… She doesn’t worry about overtime for county employees on her weekly UCTV crap show, either.

Chattooga, Whitfield, and Catoosa hold all their commissioner meetings in the evenings, normally at 6 PM – but none of those neighboring counties complain about overtime issues for their employees attending meetings.

And it’s not like most of the employees at those meetings are hourly anyway, they’re paid salary. The hourly people could come in an hour late that morning or leave an hour early the next day. McDonalds knows how to work people when they’re needed without giving them OT, but Bebe can’t figure it out?

The meetings are held when they’re held because Bebe doesn’t want them attended by people who work, go to school, pay taxes, or otherwise have something productive to do at 3 on a Thursday.

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