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Dec. 6, 2014
Volume 6, Issue 34
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ACUITY DEAL APPROVED Development Authority OK’s previously rejected tax incentives
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Serving Rockdale County and Conyers
Appeal filed in case of Probate Judge
PURPLE
HEART
By Martin Rand III
mrand@rockdalenews.com
FOR JUSTICE Counties
There’s another turn in the civil case involving Probate Judge Charles K. Mays Sr. On Friday, Mays filed a notice of appeal to the original judgment in the case involving Rodney Scott, a contractor who sued Mays for $10,500 of unpaid work and materials. The trial took place Nov. 5 and Mays had 30 days from the ruling of the trail to file his appeal. The new trial will take place in either the State or Superior Court of Rockdale County. Judge Phyllis R. Williams of DeKalb County Magistrate Court will make that determination since a specific court is not indicated on the notice of appeal filed by Mays.
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clash Salem hosts Newton Saturday at 4:30 p.m.
See JUDGE, Page 14
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Ferguson forum focuses on the youth
Best Christmas
By John Ruch
pageant
jruch@rockdalenews.com
New Depot Players put on a show you’ll never forget
Rockdale’s top officials answered youths’ questions about racial disparities in policing and government at an extraordinary forum held Dec. 3 at Springfield Baptist Church in the wake of the Ferguson protests. Hundreds—including many young black people—attended the “Redemption Forum” to ask questions about police tactics and racial diversity in government. No specific local complaints emerged, but better communication between cops and kids was a running theme. And some officials acknowledged Conyers’ similarities to Ferguson, pointed out in a recent New York Times article—a metro suburb with a
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Justice served: Maj. Patty Justice was wounded in 2013 while deployed with the 628th Forward Surgical Team at Forward Operating Base Shank, better known as “rocket city,” in the Logar Provence of Afghanistan. She never received her Purple Heart, due to a paper-shuffling delay. She was finally awarded Friday, Dec. 5, in a ceremony held at the Walk of Heroes in Black Shoals Park, Rockdale.
Darrell Everidge/The News
See FERGUSON, Page 15