Tag Archives: History

Rosalynn Carter at Lowndes County Courthouse, 6PM Thu Oct 9th 2014

Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter will here tomorrow, 6PM October ~~8th~~ 9th,
at the Lowndes County Courthouse, to support her grandson Jason Carter
for Governor of Georgia,

the Lowndes County Democratic Party announced today.

Incumbent Gov. Nathan Deal’s campaign
took $10,000 from Spectra Energy,
which wants to build the Sabal Trail natural gas pipeline through south Georgia.
Deal’s campaign also accepted contributions from three other pipeline companies,

adding up to at least $21,300.

Jason Carter’s campaign accepted no dollars ($0) from any of those companies.
And as
his campaign website says,
State Senator Jason Carter “has twice received Environmental Leadership awards from Georgia Conservation Voters”.

Former President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter
visited Valdosta in 2003, when they helped Habitat for Humanity
build a house.
Tomorrow she will be back, this time at the Courthouse.

-jsq

Alapahoochee Antique Tractor Show & Historic Farm Heritage Days

That’s a Lake Park postal address, but the street address
is actually in Echols County.
Received from

Lake Park Chamber of Commerce. yesterday. -jsq

ALAPAHOOCHEE

HISTORIC FARM / HERITAGE DAYS

DOWN HOME FAMILY REUNION

OCTOBER 1424 – 25, 2014 (FRI/SAT)

9 AM-4 PM

ECHOLS COUNTY, 202 BETHEL CHURCH ROAD.

LAKE PARK. GA 31636

Preserving Echols County & Area Heritage of 1900’s

Non-profit

NO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES ALLOWED

Free admission

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Nichols House frat no longer; maybe historic preservation @ VCC 2014-09-11

LAKE has video, but meanwhile, so you can prepare for the
Oct. 1st talk about that historic Nichols House,
here’s some background.

Chip Harp wrote for Valdosta Today 17 September 2014,

In

last week’s Valdosta City Council meeting, Council voted 5-2 in
favor of re-zoning nearly 4 acres of land in the Alden Park
Community, near the campus. Some neighbors in the community stand
firmly against the development, which would include a 180-bed
student housing complex, and say it takes away from their
neighborhood, based on a report from WCTV’s Winnie Wright.

Winnie Wright reported for WCTV 16 September 2014,

The Historic Standing Of One Home Could Determine Future Of Surrounding Community, Continue reading →

Valdosta’s Ultramodern Masterpiece: The Nichols House on Baytree —Alfred Willis Lecture 2014-10-01

Received yesterday in PDF.
This is the historic structure where Turner Brooks wants to build a subdivision.
-jsq

7:00pm – Wednesday, October 1st, 2014
Valdosta State University
Bailey Science Center, Room 1011

This event is FREE and open to all.
Parking is also free in the Georgia Avenue Parking lots.
* For more information please contact Colleen McDonough,
229-333-5759 or cmcdonou@valdosta.edu

The Nichols house is a replete instance of the diffusion of Californian
on the Nichols House & Valdosta Architecture
design ideals in the postwar decade, the work that brought architect
Lloyd Greer’s career to its culmination, and the starting point for the
careers of several leading Valdosta architects of the next generation. Continue reading →

Lula Smart acquitted on all counts: Quitman 10 vindicated

Lula Smart cleared by a jury in third trial.
Third strike by the prosecutors: they’re out!
Will they stop wasting our taxpayer dollars now?

Katheryn Hayes Tucker, Daily Report, 17 September 2014,

Acquittal in Trial Over Absentee Ballots,

Lula Mary Smart was acquitted on 19 felony charges of voting
irregularities Wednesday following a month-long trial in Brooks
County Superior Court in South Georgia.

Continue reading →

Fracking panel report –Cape Breton University, Nova Scotia

A reader wondered how

Nova Scotia’s fracking ban would result in
safer oil and gas company drilling operations instead of just
balkanizing the world into fracking permitted and prohibited zones.
Actually, Energy Minister Andrew Younger said:

“This way, people will know before it’s allowed — if it’s ever
allowed — there will be a full debate in the Legislature.”

And the panel report that was the proximate cause of the ban,
by the
Nova Scotia Hydraulic Fracturing review,
led by

President Dr. David Wheeler,
explicitly is for: Continue reading →

Water, events, flea market, religious events @ GLPC 2014-08-25

The

Turner Brooks
rezoning next to Pine Tree Road turns out to be in paved-over
wetlands that previously flooded, only slightly uphill from
notoriously-problematical Sugar Creek.
GLPC recommended tabling until Historic Preservation could look
at one of the houses, but these water issues could be
at least as important, and Valdosta City Council could decide
to approve anyway without waiting.

Also in Valdosta an

accessory building,
an
event center and flea market,
and
an

office park.
In Lake Park an

ordinance text change
about religious meetings in commercial districts.
In the county, a

request to remove some existing zoning restrictions
and

the county wants to approve all its recent ULDC changes.

And they only submitted one name for the County Commission

to consider for appointment to GLPC.

Here’s

the agenda
followed by links to the videos as events occurred in the meeting.

Greater Lowndes Planning Commission

Lowndes County City of Valdosta City of Dasher City of Hahira City of Lake Park

REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING

AGENDA

Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office

325 West Savannah Avenue

Monday, August 25, 2014* 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing

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Why open government matters –VDT

Maybe the Lowndes County Commission should have read these quotes
before it approved that

unbudgeted no-bid not-discussed-in-the-retreat
second water treatment system purchase.

Update 17 October 2014: Fix date of editorial. -jsq

VDT editorial 12 ~~April~~ August 2014,

Why open government matters,

“The same prudence, which, in private life, would forbid our
paying our money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the
disposition of public moneys.” — Thomas Jefferson.

Continue reading →

Quitman 10+2 third trial set for 19 August 2014

Will three strikes against the prosecution
make it give up on trying to convict the Quitman 10+2?
Dear prosecutor, we know you read this blog, because

you asked potential jurors at Lula Smart’s second trial,

Have you read or talked to or followed a blog called “On the
Lake Front?”

So, dear prosecutor, when is enough enough?

Fannie MJ Gibs

notes that Quitman Free press

posted on facebook yesterday:

The retrial voter fraud case has been set for August 19 at Brooks
County Courthouse. See this week’s issue for details.

So far as I know, Quitman Free Press only prints on paper and
does not post any articles online,
so we have to guess they’re referring to the Quitman 10.

When George Rhynes first posted about the arrests
of the Quitman 10 in December 2010, he remarked:

Today’s arrest will surely end up in the courts.

Who would have expected it to be in the courts three times?

In July 2012, the Chair of the Brooks County Board of Elections
tried to throw George Boston Rhynes out of her board’s meeting Continue reading →

Brad Lofton leaving Myrtle Beach, SC

Looks like Horry County, SC stuck to its
initial three-year offer, both for Lofton, and for millage
to fund his development authority there.
There are things the

newly-renamed Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority
could do to let sunshine turn Lofton’s local land legacy green.

Jason M. Rodriguez and Amanda Kelley wrote for Myrtle Beach Online yesterday,

Brad Lofton leaving Myrtle Beach Regional Economic Development Corporation,

Membership to the EDC increased earlier this year, but revenue from
the membership decreased by nearly $60,000, impacting the
organization’s marketing services and more.

Loton has had many projects succeed, and met some challenges during
his time in Horry County.

Earlier this month Continue reading →

On the LAKE front

Citizen dialog for transparent process by the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange