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WAY TO GO CRUSADERS! TRINITY ADVANCES TO TITLE GAME, 1B Friday, May 23, 2014 YOUR NEWSPAPER [email protected] • www.courier-herald.com Drawer B, Court Square Station, Dublin, Georgia 31040 • 272-5522 Volume 100, No. 122, Pub. No 161860 75 The Courier HeraldCENTS Off-Duty deputy slaying trial: Day 2 Crime scene on display for jurors By PAYTON TOWNS III to see. Several people left the LCSO Investigator Robbie shoes from Kelvin Rozier, a Coming Photos of the crime scene room while some looked away Toney testified about taking man Hodges said shot Wright. where an off-duty Johnson and cried as Laurens County pictures of a wallet under- Toney testified about find- Saturday To County Sheriff's Deputy was Sheriff's Investigator Lance neath the mattress of Hodges' ing Wright's driver’s license The Market On killed were shown during the Padgett described the pictures bed. Toney said Hodges told in- and car keys from the Johnson Madison second day of trial Thursday he took. vestigators where the wallet County Sheriff's Office from Market on Madison morning. Padgett also described the was. It contained "approxi- trash cans nearby. Every Saturday 7:30 a.m. - Davoris Hodges, a pictures of the gun and bullets mately $1,552" the investiga- Earlier in the day, LCSO in- 12:30 p.m. Wrightsville man who is on tri- that Hodges led investigators tor said. vestigator Brian Scarborough Sorry, No Pets al for the March 22, 2013 mur- to. Padgett said the gun and Toney also testified about continued his testimony. Scar- der of Khristal Wright, did not bullets were found three or recovering a red shirt from the borough said they received a Photo by Payton Towns III Beasley Farms - fresh eggs: look up at the screen where the four miles apart. The gun was dryer and white cargo pants lot of information during the chicken, duck and turkey photos were being displayed found in the woods and the from the dryer. Toney also re- Faircloth presents the Carroll Farms - fresh produce for everyone in the courtroom bullets were found in a field. covered many clothes and See TRIAL page 3a prosecution’s case. Cedar Rock Dairy - raw milk Ronald Daniel - pound cakes, bread, bbq sauce, honey, cane syrup, pepper sauce, meat rub Chester men Ingrid Durden - hand-sewn 115 and counting aprons, knits, hand-made jewel- hospitalized after ry Tim & Margee Edge - carpen- ter bee traps, vegetables, wreck on Ga. 257 homemade children's furniture, artwork, hibiscus tea By PAYTON TOWNS III Brenton Gibson, 30 of Kenneth Fontenot - relish, Two Chester men were Chester, was a passenger in peanut brittle, teacakes, pig taken to the hospital after a the car. One man was car- skins, pickles, jellies, pear pre- one-vehicle wreck on High- ried to Fairview Park Hospi- way 257 Wednesday night. tal and the other was carried serves, watermelon rind pre- According to a Georgia to the Macon Medical Center serves State Patrol official, Jordan by Air Evac. The official did- Fresh & Sweet (Beverly & Walker, 21 of Chester, was n't know which one went Tommy Veal) - Rutabagas & the driver of a red 2000 Ford where. tops, snow peas, sugar snaps, Taurus when the accident The official also con- happened around 7:19 p.m. firmed there were two 4 varieties of lettuce, kale, col- The cause of the accident wrecks this morning, one on lards, onions, pralines, mini pd. was not known as of press Highway 80 and the other on cakes, canned goods. time. Interstate 16. Paula Gibbons - pine straw baskets J & J Farms (Jim Smalley) - Afternoon fire destroys turnips, mustards, kale, swiss chard, onions, radish, cabbage, house near Dexter jellies Evelyn Johnson - homemade By PAYTON TOWNS III belonged to Gary Baggett. cakes and pies A Thursday afternoon fire "It was totaled," Bryant Lil' Tom's - homemade salsa, Special Photo destroyed a house on Scooter said. "When we got the call Rue Road in Laurens Coun- and I walked out of my office, sauces, pepper vinegar, hand- Talley, a native of Montrose, turns 115 today. ty. I could see the black smoke. " made crafts Laurens County Rural Due to the damage al- M & G Farms - produce, plants, Montrose woman celebrates Fire Chief Don Bryant said ready done when firefighters potpourri nobody was at home and no arrived, Bryant said they Chris & Katie Mimbs - hand- one was hurt in the fire. He may never know what caused said the wood frame house the fire. made wooden signs, handmade historic birthday crafts Jim Musselwhite - watermel- By SCOTT THOMPSON ons Today, Jeralean Kurtz Tal- Dublin BOE resubmits Nature Crisp Farms - lettuce, ley turns 115 years old. potatoes, broccoli, peppers, Talley, a native of Montrose deficit elimination plan carrots, radish, potatoes, cab- holds on to her official title as the oldest living person in the bage, strawberries United States and the oldest By PAYTON the school system to finish Julia Nazerian - The Bee's living person outside the TOWNS III the plan next year. Knees - bees wax lotion bars country of Japan. The Dublin Board of Edu- "It'll now be a five-year and lip balm Talley was born on May 23, cation voted to resubmit its process and we'll pay it off in deficit elimination plan dur- 2017," Ledbetter said. "We Skip Neal - squash, zucchini, 1899 to Samuel James Kurtz and Amelia Kurtz. ing a called board meeting are continuing to do what we new potatoes, onions, rutaba- William McKinley was Thursday night. need to do with school and gas, English peas, snow peas President of the United Dublin Superintendent Dr. making sure we are educat- Joy Shepard - baked goods States. On May 23, 2014, Chuck Ledbetter said they ing our students." and handi-crafts some 19 presidents, 14 hun- had to resubmit this plan to The board members were the state, showing how much happy with the decision to Strawberry Station - straw- dred plus full moons and 41,725 sunsets later, Jeralean they plan to reduce the deficit make it a five-year plan. berries reaches yet another milestone Special Photo until it is gone. "I think this is a very good Lisa Wright - sugar free baked in the time line of her longest "The state is very pleased move," said board member goods, cookbook life. Talley was one of 12 children born to Samuel with where we are," Ledbet- James Lanier. Jeralean, who was among a James Kurtz and Amelia Kurtz. ter said. "We have a budget Mary Washington, who is dozen children of Samuel and moved to Inkster, Wayne Jeralean married Alfred that is in the black even in her first year as a School Abby Amelia Jones Kurtz, grew up County, Mich. during a vast Talley, who died in the 1980s. though we still have a debt to Nutrition Director, told the in the outskirts of Montrose in migration of African-Ameri- Although she was from a large pay off. They were compli- board that they had received Hardworking western Laurens County. Her can farm workers who left family, Jeralean had only one mentary of us, especially the another grant that would ex- couple reluctant grandfather, Andrew J. Kurtz, Laurens County in the 1920s child, a daughter, Thelma fact that we are continuing to tend their "Fresh Fruit and husband of Rachel Kurtz, was for Detroit, Mich. That group Holloway, who is now 75 years improve while we are doing it Vegetable Program" for the to help most likely a slave owned by includes the family of world old. She has three grandchil- and getting our finances in 2014-2015 school year. Dr. William J. Kurtz, who champion boxer, Sugar Ray dren, ten great-grandchildren order. We aren't just dropping "I would like to thank the freeloader owned nearly two dozen Robinson and Ford Motor and four great-great-grand- everything with school to bal- principals for supporting me slaves during the Civil War. Company inventor and inno- ance the budget." and the School Nutrition Pro- ——— Jeralean and her family vator, Claude Harvard. Originally the plan was for Oz & Roizen See BIRTHDAY page 3a See BOE page 3a Who’s dropping the ball, 2a Law enforcement torch run makes its way from Soperton to Dublin Tell IT! of the Day: By BALI SMITH ton, we ran through East our runners on a safe journey The Law Enforcement Dublin and Dublin and ended the entire day." I see people Torch Run for the Special in Dudley. Next year, we The Law Enforcement Olympics passed through would like to expand our re- Torch Run is the largest an- still don't Dublin around 1:30 p.m. lay with our stopping point nual fundraising event bene- Tuesday afternoon. being Warner Robins." fiting the Special Olympics. take pride in Tiffany Giles, the Special Giles concluded saying, "It The LETR involves more Olympics Coordinator in Sop- was such an awesome day. than 1,000 law enforcement erton said, "The Soperton Po- We would like to thank every- their work. officers from over 100 agen- lice Department began sup- one who supported our Relay cies, who take part in a porting the Law Enforcement Run, in particular Dublin Torch Run for the Special Nissan for supplying us with 1,000-mile, two-week torch Olympics more than five an escort vehicle, the Soper- relay to pass the Special Olympics years ago. In the past, we just ton Police and Sheriff's De- Photo by Bali Smith ran a mile with the torch partment, Dublin HEAT, "Flame of Hope" across the through downtown Soperton. Dublin Police Department state of Georgia.