Mixed Use Development for Loganville?

Loganville may get mixed-use development
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
By BETH WARREN Developers are eyeing Loganville for a trendy
mixed-used development, the first of its kind within the city.
So far, Loganville officials ...

Fine Arts & Music Programs Shunned in Walton County Schools

Sports, life without music?
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
Such was the case in Walton County recently. This is no knock on the local school board, which faces a thankless and virtually impossible job of trying to ...

Horrific Recollections of Moore's Ford Bridge Lynchings

Horrors recalled at Moore’s Ford Bridge
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
By Stephen Milligan WALTON COUNTY — Although the latest
re-enactment of the infamous Moore’s Ford lynching came and
went without any closure in the ...

Some Area Schools Fail AYP Standards

Three area schools fail to meet AYP standards
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
By Stephen Milligan WALTON COUNTY — With new testing
requirements and wider performance gaps to bridge, more schools
in Walton County failed to make ...

Ballet School Holds Open House

The Grayson School of Ballet, located in the Grayson Exchange Shopping Center (next to Kroger) will hold an Open House on Saturday August 9 from 10 am until 2 pm and on Sunday August 10th from 2 pm until 4 pm. Visit the Grayson School of Ballet website at www.graysonballet.org or call the School at 770-682-9919 for more information.

News from Walton County

Hopefully plans will help city
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
The plan states Monroe, the county seat of Walton County,
is in an ideal location because it is located halfway between
Atlanta and Athens. ...

Walks to school bus stops increase
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
By Stephen Milligan WALTON COUNTY — Children across
Walton County may have to walk a little more to catch a
bus when the new school
year starts this week. ...

Once candidate emerges for Dist. 6 BOE post
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
By Stephen Milligan LOGANVILLE — Although
most of the seats open
for the Walton County Board of Education
were essentially decided in this month’s ...

Brother Shoots & Kills Sister

Brother Shoots, Kills Sister In Walton County
WSBtv.com - Atlanta,GA,USA
WALTON COUNTY, Ga. (Social Circle) -- An argument between two siblings ended with gunfire Friday night in Walton County. Authorities said Cynthia Lundy, 33, ...

Walton Chamber of Commerce Auction

On Friday, August 22, 2008 the Walton Chamber of Commerce will host their 5th Annual Casino Night and Auction from 7:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m at the Monroe Golf and Country Club. Clayt Mason will serve as Auctioneer.

The Walton Chamber of Commerce is seeking donations to auction as fund raisers for this event. A portion of the proceeds of the auction will benefit the Youth Leadership Walton Program. Donations with a value of $500 or more will receive special recognition at the event with signing and a listing in the program. Great exposure for your business!

The Walton Chamber of Commerce website says that if you would like to secure your place in the auction program, they will need your donation pledge no later than August 2, 2008.

See the Walton County Chamber of Commerce's website at www.WaltonChamber.org for more information.

Loganville Sports - Atlanta Crackers & Loganville H.S.

Young Devils struggle in summer league games
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
By David Johnson LOGANVILLE — The Loganville High
School boys basketball team that advanced to the state
tournament for the first time in school history two ...

Crackers to return in 2009
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
LOGANVILLE — The Atlanta Crackers, a semi-
professional baseball team competing in the
Georgia Stan Musial Division of the American Baseball ...

Police K-9 Barney Buried with Honors

Police dog buried with full honors
Barney remembered for his service to Loganville.

Loganville Sports Updates

Post 233 Juniors run out of gas
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
By Danny Daniels LOGANVILLE — After splitting a pair of one-run
games with Americus Post 2 earlier in the state American Legion
Juniors (15-17-year-olds) ...

LHS basks in the limelight
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
In years past, the Loganville High School head baseball coach had
ad his summer mapped out by spring break. The off-season
schedule was set, the tournaments ...

Loganville Fire Department Storm Response

Gwinnett road crews, firefighters respond to storms
Duluth Weekly - Duluth,GA,USA
The City of Loganville Fire Department filled the
mutual-aid request
based on the heavy call volume in Gwinnett.
Fire crews responded to
calls that included ...

Walton County News July 24

In quest for justice, a name is born
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
In 2005, Rosa Ingram (right), an aunt of Roger Malcom, and Annie Smith,
a cousin of George Dorsey, visited Moore's Ford Bridge in Walton County – the site ...

Utilize perks of tax holiday
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
Their counterparts in the Walton County Public Schools will go
back to class on July 31. Parents with students in private school
have a little summer left, ...

Franklin in line for top school post in Miss.
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
By Robbie Schwartz WALTON COUNTY — The county’s school
system may be losing one of its finest as Assistant Superintendent
Harvey Franklin was named as one ...

Tipping the scales: State has weight issues
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
By Matthew Tyndale WALTON COUNTY — All of those value size meals
and deep-fried foods come at a price for those down South as the
region weighed in as the ...

War trail markers get financial boost
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
She said the trails will help us remember the heritage of Walton County,
while also attracting people to visit. “It’s good for the economy, children and ...

Walton County News

Senators reflect on victory, look ahead
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
counties. Douglas won The district includes Newton County and portions of Henry, Rockdale, Spalding and Walton County by more than 1000 votes, ...

Familiar faces fare well in outside elections
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
By Matthew Tyndale WALTON COUNTY —- As primary season ends, some area

Planning a passive park
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
By Brian Arrington MONROE — The Friends of Walton County see the nearly 20 acres of vacant land on West Spring Street as more than just a breeding ground ...

Spearman may get death penalty
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
By Robbie Schwartz MONROE — Walton County District Attorney Ken Wynne announced in court this week the state’s intention to seek the death penalty in the ...

Walton County Sports

Lady Red Devils pick up where they left off
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
LOGANVILLE — The Lady Devils of Loganville High School reeled off a 20-6 record last winter and now coach Rob Donaldson must replace five ...

Post 233 loses to D’ville
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
LOGANVILLE — Douglasville Post 145 scored five runs in the second inning and held on to beat Loganville 8-4 Thursday night at American ...

Covenant football numbers on the rise
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
LOGANVILLE — When first-year coach Bob McCready greeted his Covenant Christian Academy eight-man football team last August, he addressed ...

Loganville News July 19

Loganville’s primary factor
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
With no incumbent, Loganville Councilman Chuck Bagley
and political newcomer Tom Kirby were vying to replace
outgoing commissioner Michael Turner, ...

LHS produces in offseason
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
By Danny Daniels LOGANVILLE — Loganville High School’s
girls varsity basketball team posted a 20-6 record last winter and
the mark was obviously no fluke ...

Miller attracts college offers
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
By Preston Towns LOGANVILLE — Unlike the majority of his
teammates, the basketball season did not come to a close for
Loganville Christian Academy’s Daniel ...

Fees to Increase on Water and Garbage

Rates to increase on water, garbage
"Aug. 1 bills to contain spike in Loganville service fees. The Loganville City Council voted unanimously last week to raise the garbage rates from $13.75 to $15 for residential garbage pick up and from $12 to $13.25 for seniors — a 5.6 percent increase."

More Loganville News Updates

How a rumor gets started
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
You know, like the one about Loganville’s Brandon Moss
coming home to play for the Atlanta Braves. Inevitably, some
irresponsible columnist mentions it in ...

Polls open again in November
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
... decide in November if Janie Ross or Gwen Cantrell, both of Loganville, will replace John Seigler, who is not seeking re-election, on the school board. ...

Walton County News Updates

Keep Walton moving forward
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
... learn from this election and move the county forward.
There is a good thing going here, so make sure to keep
Walton County heading in the right direction.

Turnout low for primary elections
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
By Stephen Milligan WALTON COUNTY —Despite several high
profile races in the county, voter turnout in Tuesday’s primary
failed to meet candidate’s and ...

Court resumes for alleged teen killer
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
By Robbie Schwartz WALTON COUNTY — Recent motions to
suppress evidence in the murder case involving Josh Ferguson
were denied and the Walton County District ...

Breedlove wins Dist. 7 BOE post
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
By Stephen Milligan WALTON COUNTY — Despite some close races,
incumbents managed to hang on to their seats on the Walton County
Board of Education and only ...

Chapman, Little hold off challengers
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
By Brian Arrington WALTON COUNTY — In what many are calling
the most contentious election season in county history,
Sheriff Joe Chapman and Board of ...

Resident Goes to Oklahoma for Arrest

You know it's bad when people have to go to Oklahoma to get arrested. We need to do more locally to arrest people so they don't have to go so far for their jail accommodations.

"Torrin L. Jones, 20, Loganville, GA, arrested at 3400 S Broadway on a complaint of carrying harmful weapon."

The Oklahoman News Blotter

Loganville Football Camps

Football camps this week
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
By Danny Daniels LOGANVILLE — Budding football stars around the
county have two options this week to improve their skills.
The 2008 Loganville Football ...

Getting ready for changes
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
By David Johnson LOGANVILLE — After spending the past two
years playing eight-man football, Loganville Christian Academy
will begin competing in the more ...

Walton County News

Emergency agency stages deadly outbreak
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
The Walton County Emergency Management Agency and the
Walton County Health Department, along with the state
Department of Human Resources’ Northeast Health ...

Chapman, Little outspend challengers
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
WALTON COUNTY — Heading into the home stretch,
the Republican Party races for office in Walton County have raised more
than $175000 — and ...

WCPS passes budget, rate remains
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
WALTON COUNTY — After months of deliberations
public outcry and aborted efforts at millage increases and personnel
cuts, the Walton ...

George Walton will not have open date in 2008
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
WALTON COUNTY — According to George
Walton Academy football coaches, the team is experiencing
its best ever turnout for summer weight ...

Residents Emphasize Progress

Walton residents emphasize progress since lynchings
Online Athens - Athens,GA,USA
Terry Briscoe, next to Cindy Woodruff, describes a recent search
at his neighbor's property for evidence in the 1946 Moore's
Ford lynchings in Walton County ...

Loganville in the news

Moss comes up big for Sox.
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
Loganville’s Brandon Moss drove in a run with a sacrifice
fly in the bottom of the seventh inning and then singled
home the eventual game-winner in the ...

LCA team spending the summer getting ready
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
By David Johnson LOGANVILLE — After spending the past three
years playing eight-man football, Loganville Christian Academy
will begin competing in the more ...

Navy Family Recounts Grayson Visit in Blog

This blogger lives in Virginia but visited her parents in Grayson GA for the 4th of July. In this post, she talks about the fireworks display someone did at the end of their street. Their trip to Georgia was to see all the family here before being stationed in Japan

Family, Friends, and Fireworks
By MySailor'sGirl(MySailor'sGirl)
A wonderful man at the end of my Dad's street in Grayson, GA, let off a fireworks display for the whole neighborhood and more. It was the largest private display of fireworks I've ever seen. Actually the only larger public display I've ...

Loganville GA Parade, Fireworks

Loganville shows its patriotic colors
Thousands watch parade, fireworks on 4th of July holiday.

Loganville News

LMS student makes nationals
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
By Danny Daniels LOGANVILLE — Loganville’s Olivia Douglas
recently represented Team USA at the Amateur Athletic Union’s
Junior Olympics in Feasterville, Pa. ...

Why run in the Peachtree?
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
By the way, Loganville baseball fans might like to know Griffin
High School shortstop Tim Beckham signed a $6.15 million
contract with Tampa Bay.

Walton County News Updates - July 10

Alcovy Judicial District considering monitors
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
By Robbie Schwartz WALTON COUNTY — The Alcovy Judicial Circuit,
which is comprised of Walton and Newton counties, is
considering use of ankle monitors on ...

Water can flow freely once again in Monroe
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
Water ban lifted.
The restrictions in place for much of the 61-county region of North
Georgia remain in place and apply to residents of Walton County
outside Monroe city ...

Softball teams play well
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
Another Walton County squad, the American all-stars, won the
9-10 tournament with a pair of victories over Walton National.
Walton teams finished second in ...

Walton County News July 4th

Flint breaks course record at TPC event
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
By Danny Daniels WALTON COUNTY — The Providence Club
hosted its annual Walton Junior Classic golf tournament June 26
with more than 50 competitors in five ...

'Arc of justice' bending toward Moore's Ford
Online Athens - Athens,GA,USA
... elected officials and government agencies to take a deeper look
at the six-decades-gone, still-unsolved lynching of two black
Walton County couples, ...

Missing Teen: Haylee Lynn Davis age 15

Another 15 year old girl that is missing. Her name is Haylee Lynn Davis. She is about 5'7" and 105 lbs with shoulder length brown hair with blonde highlights. She has green eyes and was last seen on 06/25/08 @ 12:30 am wearing a pair of white terry cloth shorts and a peach color spaghetti strap shirt.

There have been flyers printed and posted all over Loganville and copies faxed to the surrounding counties.

If you have any info on her whereabouts please contact WCSO LT. Todd Dalton @ 770-267-6557 or her mother Cynthia Cardin (cell) 770-780-9270 or (home) 678-639-0131. Haylee is the stepdaughter of the late Officer Steve Cardin of Loganville.

If any one would like to help post the flyers, please contact Cynthia Cardin and she will get you some.

Thanks for all your help in advance.

Cynthia Cardin (WCSO Deputy Sheriff)

Carnival Ride Glitch Injures Man

Officials Inspect Carnival Ride After Man Fell Off Swing Ride
MyFox Atlanta - Atlanta,GA,USA
LOGANVILLE, Ga. (MyFOX Atlanta) – Investigators inspected a
carnival ride after a man fell off the ride. The owner of McNair
Amusements in Loganville says ...

Man Injured By Loganville Carnival Ride
CBS 46 - Atlanta,GA,USA
LOGANVILLE, Ga. -- A man was taken to the hospital Tuesday after a
malfunctioning carnival ride threw him several feet into the air. ...

Walton County News Updates

New Evidence Uncovered in Moore's Ford

Lynchings in Walton County
MyFox Atlanta - Atlanta,GA,USA
WALTON COUNTY, Ga. (MyFOX Atlanta)-- New evidence
discovered at a home five miles away from the site of the
1946 Moore's Ford Bridge lynchings may bring ...

Ga. authorities probe 1946 unsolved lynchings
The Associated Press -
The FBI and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said they began
searching the property in rural Walton County on Monday after
receiving "recent information" ...

Lawrenceville man dies in Ga. 20 accident
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
By Robbie Schwartz WALTON COUNTY — A 24-year-old
Lawrenceville citizen was killed Sunday morning in an
accident on Highway 20 less than a mile from the ...

WCPS fails to pass budget for second time
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
By Stephen Milligan WALTON COUNTY — Despite
repeated efforts to pass a budget for the upcoming
school year, the Walton County Board of Education
still finds ...

No. 5 at Monroe Golf & Country Club is tough
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA
By Danny Daniels WALTON COUNTY — Walton County offers
four of the top golfing layouts in the state. Is there a single hole
among the 72 that stands out in ...

Search Connected With Moore's Ford Murders
News/Talk 750 WSB - Atlanta,USA
(WSB Radio) -- A two-day search of some property on
Michael Road near Monroe in Walton County has
netted a couple of finds. GBI Agent Jim Fullington tells ...

FBI, GBI on search for 1946 lynching evidence
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
By MARCUS K. GARNER State and federal investigators
were searching in Walton County on Monday and Tuesday
for clues to solve a 62-year-old lynching. ...

New Evidence Collected in 1946 Murder

New evidence collected in 1946 lynching case
CNN - USA
In a written statement, the FBI and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said they collected several items on a property in rural Walton County, Georgia, ...

"On July 25, 1946, two black sharecropper couples were shot hundreds of times and the unborn baby of one of the women cut out with a knife at the Moore's Ford Bridge."

They call it a "lynching" in the article, but it wasn't a hanging, it was a brutal shooting of several people, and cutting the baby out of the pregnant woman's womb was just grisly. What's extra shocking to me is that they know it was 12-15 white men, it happened in broad daylight, there were witnesses, and yet no arrests were made! It was all just brushed under the rug. One of the victims was a WWII Veteran. President Harry Truman sent the FBI out, they did 3,000 interviews and served 100 subpeonas, but nobody wanted to talk. There was very little cooperation, so the case just faded away.

GBI Searches For Clues In 1946 Lynching
WSBtv.com - Atlanta,GA,USA

Officials from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation began digging
Monday evening at the property on Michael Rd. in Monroe.
GBI agents said the current residents are not part of the investigation.
The GBI confirmed to WSB-TV Channel 2 the investigation is
linked to the Moore's Ford Bridge lynching. On July 25, 1946 a
crowd of 12-15 white men abducted and murdered two
African-American couples in Oconee County. The victims were
taken in broad daylight from an area near the Moore's Ford
bridge at the Apalachee River, 60 miles east of Atlanta. George
and Mae Murray Dorsey and Roger and Dorothy Malcom
were shot hundreds of times, according to witnesses.
No one was ever prosecuted for the murders.

Connected links:
Moore's Ford Memorial Committee (more history)

If you have information regarding this case,
Contact the GBI at 404-244-2600 or the FBI at 404-679-9000