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Williams: 160-day school year will save money, preserve jobs
by Krystin Fain
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“This decision is just a segment of the whole budget scenario,” said Superintendent Marvin Williams. The Polk School District Board of Education approved the district-wide change to a 160-day scho...
Rockmart soccer off to rough start
by Jeremy Stewart
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Both the Rockmart boys and girls soccer teams finished last week with a 0-2 record but the future – both near and distant – is looking up. In their first contests of the season, the Jackets and La...
Register now for charity BBQ competition in Cartersville
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The Good Neighbor Homeless Shelter is sponsoring the 7th Annual Georgia Barbecue Classic on June 4-5 at Sam Smith Park, 1155 Douthit Ferry Road, Cartersville. Cook teams are invited to participate...
Rockmart Rec Dept. hosts sign-ups for adult league softball
by Jeremy Stewart
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The City of Rockmart recreation department is now signing up teams for the 2010 adult church and industrial league softball season. Registration will run through Thursday, March 18 at the City of ...
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86-yr.-old man accused of murdering neighbor re-booked in Floyd Co.
by Melody Dareing
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Albert Lee Bennett, 86, of 5355 Collard Valley Road in Aragon, had been residing at the Northwest Georgia Regional Hospital.
(from left) Arlene, Alex and Brendan Clement fill the recycling bin near the entrance at Cherokee Elementary School. (Krystin Fain/thepolkfishwrap.com)
(from left) Arlene, Alex and Brendan Clement fill the recycling bin near the entrance at Cherokee Elementary School. (Krystin Fain/thepolkfishwrap.com)
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Local boys donate 50 lbs. of tabs to CES recycling
by Krystin Fain
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Third graders Alex and Brendan Clement were on hand at Cherokee Elementary Wednesday to drop off more than 50 pounds of donated can tabs to the Polk School District recycling program. The CES stud...
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« brokendown wrote on Thursday, Mar 11 at 06:52 PM »
Please the definiton of Urban Redevelopment Project for the GA Code: When the commissioners passed Ordinance 15 to designate the main street area, conditioned upon the states approval that action constitutes activity to find slums. The commission did that already. The state has not acted, but the violation has occurred.

§ 36-61-2. Definitions

(22) "Urban redevelopment project" may include undertakings or activities of a municipality or county in an urban redevelopment area for the elimination and for the prevention of the development or spread of slums and may involve slum clearance and redevelopment in an urban redevelopment area, rehabilitation or conservation in an urban redevelopment area, or any combination or part thereof, in accordance with an urban redevelopment plan. Although the power of eminent domain may not be exercised for such purposes, such undertakings or activities may include: (not must)

(A) Acquisition, without regard to any requirement that the area be a slum or blighted area, of air rights in an area consisting of lands and highways, railway or subway tracks, bridge or tunnel entrances, or other similar facilities which have a blighting influence on the surrounding area and over which air rights sites are to be developed for the elimination of such blighting influences and for the provision of housing and related facilities and uses designed for, and limited primarily to, families and individuals of low or moderate income; and

(B) Construction of foundations and platforms necessary for the provision of air rights sites of housing and related facilities and uses designed for, and limited primarily to, families and individuals of low or moderate income or construction of foundations necessary for the provision of air rights sites for development of nonresidential facilities.
« brokendown wrote on Thursday, Mar 11 at 06:48 PM »
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