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5-11 LDN RETAIL LaGrange Dailylagrangenews.com News NATIONAL TOMORROW’S SPORTS Civil rights lawsuit filed The Callaway against Ariz. sheriff...... 8 WEATHER Cavaliers have Today’s artist: Corey Hyatt, advanced fourth grade, Long Cane to the state Elementary School. High: 79, quarterfinals........9 High: 48................. 2 Vol. 169 • No. 409 • 14 pages Friday, May 11, 2012 50 cents daily/$1.50 Weekend Parents: Reassignment proposal a hardship for students Proposal would move 58 students from Callaway Elementary School to Mountville Elementary School Matthew Strother Elementary School. Rising fifth grad- the 58 students proposed for reas- News editor ers and their siblings are exempted, signment. as well as Pre-K students accepted Pugh said the attendance growth Parents of Callaway Elementary for the upcoming school year. at Callaway was due to residential School students told administrators Superintendent Cole Pugh said growth in the area and not related at a public hearing Thursday that the alternative included moving in to the closure of West Side Magnet moving their children to Mountville mobile units to Callaway Elementary School. The closure of Cannon would disrupt the welfare of their to hold additional classes, but school Street Elementary School last year children. officials felt classrooms are “a safer, added 11 students. The proposal would move 58 stu- more efficient educational environ- Yazminda Howard said the change Matthew Strother | Daily News dents in the Mountville proximity ment than mobile units.” Callaway would send her on a 20-minute trip Troup County School System Chief Financial Officer Don Miller zone and an area south of Beasley is at its capacity of 650 students and to get her daughter to school as shows parents the area affected by a proposed reassignment of Road, west of Hogansville Road, attendance is expected to grow to opposed to 5 minutes to Callaway students from Callaway Elementary to Mountville Elementary east of Interstate 85 and north of 701 next school year if nothing is Elementary. schools as Troup Board of Education Chairman John Darden and Lafayette Parkway and northwest done, while Mountville would still parent Yazminda Howard look on. The reassignment is proposed of South Davis Road to Mountville have 49 slots available if it received See PARENTS | 2 to prevent overcrowding at Callaway Elementary next school year. Deep sixed Group home looking to re-establish in Hogansville Jennifer Shrader application. Both the state Staff writer Department of Family and Children Services and the The owner of a contro- Department of Juvenile versial set of group homes Justice removed youth from is trying for the second time the LaGrange group home in two years to establish about a month after an adult his business in a former staff member was accused Hogansville school. of having a sexual relation- Hogansville City Council ship with a juvenile living at will hold a public hearing the facility. on a special use permit Both agencies removed for Dream House Youth children from McCamey’s Services, formerly known homes in LaGrange and as the Center for Creative Hogansville and investigat- Growth, at its June 4 meet- ed. McCamey also filed for ing. bankruptcy in 2011. Nicole Emmett | Daily News The city’s planning board Early this year, the The Troup County Sheriff’s Office Dive Team recovered a vehicle from the bottom of West Point Lake Thursday afternoon. The unanimously recommended homes reopened under the US Army Corps of Engineers reported a submerged vehicle located near the boat ramp at Whitewater Park on West Point Lake. the permit Thursday night. new name and McCamey A black 1993 Nissan 240SX convertible was found beneath approximately 15 feet of water, approximately 45 yards from the “This seems like a thor- also received accrediation boat ramp. No license plate was on the vehicle upon recovery. A check of the vehicle identification number indicated the vehicle ough application to me,” by CARF International, may have been from the Decatur area, according to the Sheriff’s Office. No further information is available at this time. The inci- said board chairman Ricky the Commission dent is currently under investigation. Thrash. on Accreditation of Jimmy McCamey, group Rebabilitation Facilities. home owner, wants to open “The state gave us the a home with about 30 boys kids back,” McCamey said, in the former West Side when asked what the result School at 301 Pine St. was on the investigation. It’s the same plan he came While McCamey’s West Point Council to vote on Tasers to the city with a year ago Granite Street site has oper- before eventually withdraw- is required to provide a Council has debated months to make the deci- ated in Hogansville with no Jennifer Shrader ing the application for a spe- Staff writer “use of force” report to whether to allow police sion on the Tasers after problems, the same has not cial use permit in the midst city council twice a year. to carry Tasers for sev- allowing extra time to been true in LaGrange. In of debate that divided the After months of debate The resolution also eral months. Cato had educate concerned resi- addition to his most recent city and the council. that at times was conten- contains an order that first talked about getting dents on the weapon’s problems, his homes came Since then, the city has tious, West Point City council create a Citizens’ the non-lethal weapons use and hold an informal under scrutiny after the adopted an ordinance for Council will vote Monday Police Review Board. for police officers two public hearing to listen to November 2009 shooting group homes requiring night on whether to allow The board will have the years ago. The plan was concerns. In the midst of death of Shell Food Mart them to be accredited. its police officers to carry authority to review resi- shelved because of the that, a group of residents clerk Joseph “Peace” Boison. The ordinance mirrors Tasers. dents’ complaints against cost. Early this year, marched on City Hall Christopher Caruso, 18, a one passed by LaGrange, The resolution to be the police department Troup County Sheriff before a council meeting former resident of one of where McCamey also owns voting on allowing the and assure the depart- Donny Turner said his to protest alleged abuses McCamey’s homes who had three homes. Tasers includes a use of ment adequately inves- office would pay the of the police department. left the home about a month McCamey has had a force policy and guide- tigates all complaints $20,000 it would take to A group of residents before the crime, received a busy year too, since with- lines for deployment and lodged against it. buy Tasers for 15 police and city officials have had drawing the Hogansville training of officers. Details on that review officers. several meetings since See HOME | 2 Should the resolution board, including its The city still will need then and those meetings pass, Tasers will not size and who might be to pay about $600 a year continue. be issued to officers for appointed to it, were not for training and replace- Jennifer Shrader may McGruff visits kids on at least 30 days after discussed at council’s ment of the Taser car- be reached at jshrader@ council’s vote. Police regular Thursday work tridges. lagrangenews.com or at Chief Jeffrey Cato also session. Council took several 706-884-7311, Ext. 236. ‘Special Day’ Police: Crime likely to rise during summer Nicole Emmett the lowest of the year, Pritchett said, Pritchett said. Staff Writer before rising again last week. Police recommend residents ask a “Burglars aim for places with easy neighbor to collect mail during any Higher temperatures and crime access,” Pritchett said. trip lasting longer than three days. rates mean summer is around the According to police, almost half of “If a burglar checks the mailbox, corner . LaGrange Police predict all completed residential burglaries they won’t know you are out of an increase in burglaries, robberies result from thieves simply gaining town,” Pritchett said. and auto thefts during the next few entry through unlocked doors or Crime maps at the LaGrange Police months and advise residents to fac- windows. Department indicate Autumn Ridge tor crime prevention into vacation Besides securing doors and win- and Meadow Terrace Apartments, planning. dows, police advise residents to take located on Mooty Bridge Road at Detective Christopher Pritchett of expensive, portable items with them Windward Drive, as the latest bur- the LaGrange Police Department when leaving on vacation. Valuables glary hot spots. There have been said he sees a significant increase in left behind should be concealed by seven total burglaries on Mooty these three crimes every year. curtains or stored in a safe place. Bridge Road in the last 14 days, “There’s just something about “Piles of mail point burglars in Pritchett said. when it gets warmer,” he said. the direction of unoccupied homes Detectives investigating the inci- Submitted Burglary numbers were down to and should also stay out of sight,” McGruff the Crime Dog visted Callaway Elementary Wednesday See CRIME | 2 on “Special Day.” Read full story on 2A. 2 2 - Friday, May 11, 2012 Local 2 - Friday,May 11, 2012 Local LaGrange Daily News n Public safety I Obituaries Theft Information for obituaries is written and provided by funeral homes and family members of the deceased. A woman reported someone entered her vehicle and stole her wallet while she briefly entered a business, located in the 200 block of Hamilton Road. She advised police that her wallet contained her driver’s license, Social Security Card, and other personal infor- mation.