THE FINAL STRETCH Surance, Public Service and Schools — Bartow Voters Will Begins for Reach the Local Races on the No- Vember 6 Ballot
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Sunday Edition November 4, 2018 BARTOW COUNTY’S ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER $1.50 Ashley Capital investment to bring Record ‘several hundred’ jobs to Adairsville turnout BY JAMES SWIFT ther a full-building user or multiple users, with a [email protected] minimum tenant size of about 300,000-square- expected feet,” said Ashley Capital Vice President Tim Two major developments are in the works for Schneider. the Georgia North industrial park in Adairsville Construction on the building is anticipated to for Nov. 6 — and half of the proposed project could be com- be completed by July, said Adairsville City Man- pleted as early as next summer. ager Pam Madison. Ashley Capital, a New York-based real estate “We are still in that review phase. We’re await- mid-term investment firm, recently announced plans to ing some comments back from our engineering, construct a 766,000-square-foot building roughly they’re doing their grading, installing their SPECIAL/ASHLEY CAPITAL One of Ashley Capital’s proposed buildings in Adairsville would a mile from Interstate 75. stormwater and sewer,” she said. elections be 766,000 square feet — the larger of the two would be 1.1 “We are moving forward with construction of SEE , PAGE 5A million square feet. a speculative building there, with the hope of ei- PROJECT BY NEIL B. MCGAHEE [email protected] After wading through the state offices at the top of the ballot — New capital Governor, Lt. Governor, Secre- tary of State, Attorney General and commissioners of labor, in- campaign THE FINAL STRETCH surance, public service and schools — Bartow voters will begins for reach the local races on the No- vember 6 ballot. Republican incumbent Barry Adairsville Loudermilk of Cassville faces Flynn Broady of Marietta for the 11th Congressional District seat. B&G Clubs Both seats in the Georgia Sen- ate are up for grabs with incum- bent Republican Bruce expansion Thompson of White facing Woodstock Democrat Rachel A. BY JAMES SWIFT Kinsey for the 14th District seat [email protected] and incumbent Republican Chuck Hufstetler of Rome facing Demo- Boys & Girls Clubs of Bartow crat challenger Evan Ross, also County Executive Director Gor- from Rome, for the 52nd district don Gilley said the organization seat. is stepping up efforts to finance a In the House of Representa- new facility in Adairsville. tives, Republican Matthew Gam- “The second phase of our cam- bill is unopposed for the 15th paign starts today,” he said at District seat, which was vacated Thursday morning’s Cartersville- when Paul Battles resigned last Bartow County Chamber of year. Incumbent Republican Trey Commerce meeting at North- Kelley of Cedartown is also un- Pointe Church. “Which will result opposed for the 16th District seat. in this construction of this facility The District 14 seat in the in multiple phases — our club- Georgia House of Representa- house, our athletic fields, our tives became vacant when former multipurpose athletic fields and, House Majority Whip Christian ultimately, a gymnasium.” Coomer resigned after he was ap- The organization is looking to pointed by Gov. Nathan Deal to a replace the city’s current club, lo- seat on the Appellate Court of cated at 127 King St., with a Georgia. newer facility located in between JAMES SWIFT/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS Coomer’s name appears on the North Main Street and Church Members of the Bartow County chapter of the Presidents Team convene Oct. 29 for their last meeting prior to election day. ballot because it had already been Street. printed by the time Coomer re- The City of Adairsville pur- signed, so a special election must chased the roughly 2-acre prop- be called by Deal. erty, formerly the site of the old Bartow gears up for election day Three Bartow County School S&H Supermarket, for $199,000 Board positions are open. BY JAMES SWIFT not beat us,” he said at Oct. 27’s monthly that is their job to knock doors all day and in 2015. The city government re- Republican Tony Ross of [email protected] Bartow County Republican Party meeting make phone calls all day.” ceived a $500,000 federal Com- White will face Democrat Larry in Cartersville. “But do not make a mistake Fred Kittle, the Bartow County School munity Development Block Slocum of Cartersville for the On Tuesday, one of the most contentious in thinking we have this in the bag, because Board District 4 representative, also serves Grant in 2016 to finance the new District 1 seat, while Terry Lee midterm races in recent memory will come we do not, not by a long shot.” as co-chair of Georgia’s Presidents Team, a facility’s construction. Eggert of Cartersville is unop- to an end — the specter of looming runoffs, In a county where Donald Trump won 75 pro-Trump organization with the goal of ed- “Let’s be very candid, there’s posed for the District 2 seat. notwithstanding. And local political leaders percent of the vote in 2016’s presidential ucating “people on the current policies of been a lot of money, a lot of in- Democrat Willie Coombs will from both sides of the aisle are viewing the election, heading into the 2018 midterm the President’s administration and to moti- kind services, county and city, challenge Republican Derek that have already gone into this,” races for offices and seats in the state and elections the local Republican Party is see- vate our communities to participate in the Keeney of Cartersville, the in- Gilley said. “Our overall goal Bartow alike with a bit more intrigue than ing something it isn’t quite accustom to: political process.” cumbent, for the District 3 post. would be about $1.2 million in previous election years. formidable competition from the other side. Yet even he said he’s been getting mailers Kingston voters will choose ei- when the project’s done. We’ve Within the local community, Bartow Even some of the down-ballot races, De- for Stacey Abrams in the weeks leading up ther Larry Posey or Roxie Pritch- got a great head start, Phase I is County GOP Chairman Louis DeBroux Broux said, are far from locks for the Re- to the big Nov. 6 gubernatorial election. ett to fill the unexpired term of over, Phase II starts right now.” said he has no doubts as to the outcome of publicans. As a GOP supporter campaigned “My understanding is what the left is City Council member Harold Gilley named the two co-chairs Nov. 6’s gubernatorial election — he ex- for one local school board member, De- looking at is trying to get 5 or 6 points Posey who is deceased. of the Phase II capital campaign pects Republican candidate Brian Kemp to Broux said he was surprised to learn several wherever they can, so even in Bartow here There are five proposed at the Eggs and Issues event — win, and win big. campaigners were ringing doorbells for the you have a couple of school board races amendments to the Georgia Con- Atlanta Falcons defensive end But he’s not so certain about Kemp’s Democratic challenger in the very same with a couple of Democrats,” he said at stitution. and Adairsville native Vic chances elsewhere in metro Atlanta. Clay- neighborhood. Monday’s Presidents Team meeting in The first asks if the Constitu- Beasley and United Community ton, DeKalb, Fulton — all heavily-popu- “Their ground game is aggressive,” he Cartersville. “Both are good people or tion of Georgia should be Bank President Gary lated counties he considers likely to go blue said. “I’ve been out on weekends and nights whatever, but I think the reason they are amended to create the Georgia Floyd. Tuesday. knocking on doors, but I’m also working 12 SEE , PAGE 6A “This is not going to be a quick “If we turn out the vote, Democrats can- hours a day at my job. They’ve got people, ELECTION SEE BALLOT, PAGE 6A effort, it has not been for the last two years, anyway, that we’ve been trying to do this,” Floyd said. “A club is not necessarily about a building, but in this build- Adairsville High’s Noe named ing, it affords us so many more opportunities, and the in-kind Bartow County Teacher of Year RANDY PARKER/DTN contributions that have already Adairsville High been made exceed $100,000, but BY DONNA HARRIS dents have so eloquently articulated for you [in a School Spanish we’ve got to have about another [email protected] video], but I am 100 percent just humbled and grate- teacher Kaylie $100,000.” ful,” the Cartersville resident said as she accepted Noe was named Gilley said a replacement for The students taking Spanish at Adairsville High her award. “I feel so honored to represent Bartow Bartow County’s 2018-19 Teacher the current club, which operates School called it. County. I truly never thought that this would be a of the Year out of what was once a mainte- They believed their teacher, Kaylie Noe, was thing. There are so many amazing teachers in this Thursday evening nance facility for Georgia Power, going to be named the Bartow County Teacher of county in our school system and at Adairsville High at the system’s is much needed. He said the pro- the Year, and they were right. School who have poured tirelessly into me, helping annual Teacher of posed replacement — with a con- Noe, who started her career eight years ago at me to hone my craft and what I’m doing.