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Area Arrests
• Billy Darrell Cantrell, 49, 110 Jim Petty Road, Crandall, was charged Monday by the Murray County Sheriff’s Office with battery and stalking.
• Gregory Brooks Harmon, 28, 109 Pleasant Hill Drive, Dalton, was charged Monday by the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office with battery (family violence), terroristic threats and acts and cruelty to children.
• Gerardo Hernandez, 26, 1307 Coogler Road, Dalton, was charged Monday by the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office with criminal use of an altered ID.
• Thomas Norton Hoke, 50, 111 Vicksburg Lane, Lugoff, S.C., was charged Monday by the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office with deposit account fraud.
• William Gerald Hollar, 31, 187 Mayfly Way, Dalton, was charged Monday by the Dalton Police Department with fugitive from justice (DUI, Hamilton County, Tenn.).
• Feliciano Romero, 17, 54 Buford Ridley Road, Dalton, was charged Monday by the Chatsworth Police Department with theft by taking.
• Jody Alex Manis, 25, 349 Davis Road, Chatsworth, was charged Monday by the Murray County Sheriff’s Office with burglary.
• April Ann Newman, 37, 513 N. Second Ave., Chatsworth, was charged Monday by the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office with DUI and failure to yield.
• Alicia Wilson, 24, 129 Cash Town Road, Aragon, was charged Monday by the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office with possession of marijuana.
• Kevin Lee Chastain, 20, 4143 Alf St., Dalton, was charged Tuesday by the Georgia State Patrol and Tunnel Hill Police Department with possession of alcohol by a minor, false information, DUI, failure to maintain lane, license required and speeding, and by the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office with theft by taking, second degree criminal damage to property, criminal trespass, probation violation, failure to appear and false statement.
• Joshua Pete Matthews, 24, 3899 Highway 225 N., Chatsworth, was charged Tuesday by the Murray County Sheriff’s Office with second degree criminal damage to property and fugitive from justice (information unavailable, Bradley County, Tenn.).
• John Michael Myers, 48, 609 Treemont, Dalton, was charged Tuesday by the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office with second degree criminal damage to property.
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Derby time
Owen Halman, 8, of Dalton, lines up his car “Fire Bullet” before a race during the Boy and Cub Scouts grand championship Pinewood Derby Saturday at First Presbyterian Church.
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Helpin’ and paintin’
With his bracket busted and interest in the men’s college basketball tournament waning, Pierce Montgomery spent Saturday re-painting the Dalton home of a Vietnam veteran who couldn’t do the work himself.
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DSC officials explain possible cuts
Dalton State College officials know the state budget cuts they planned for almost a month ago won’t be as deep as expected. What they don’t know is exactly which of the proposed cuts they’ll have to implement.
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Higher education funding is at center of debate
More than 4,000 students, including several at Dalton State College, have banded together to push back against proposed state cuts to higher education funding.
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Local officials view possible cuts at college with concern
Dalton State College plays a big part in plans by local leaders to grow and diversify the area’s economy, so they are viewing proposed cuts to the college with some concern.
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Young couple awaits Habitat for Humanity home
Luis Sanchez knows how the Gutierrez family feels as they watch their house being built by the Dalton-Whitfield Habitat For Humanity.
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Superintendent decision coming Monday night
The Richland 2 school board in Columbia, S.C., has chosen a superintendent — Whitfield County Schools superintendent Katie Brochu was one of three finalists — but won’t publicly say who it is until Monday, according to The State newspaper.
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Area arrests for March 21
Recent arrests from the Whitfield and Murray County jail reports.
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Marilyn Helms: Companies vary on correcting products, services
In the first half of my column on my Dalton State College quality management systems class quality “problems” project, I discussed the situations that companies did not resolve.
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“Do You Remember?” cast announced
Members of Dalton Dance Company will perform in Dalton Arts Project’s “Do You Remember?” spring concert — a look back at the music they grew up with as well as the music enjoyed by previous generations of teenagers (now parents and grandparents).
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