Clarke, Oconee residents to receive jury summons in March as trials resume
Residents of Clarke and Oconee counties will soon receive summons for jury duty in late March.
Superior Court Judge Eric Norris, chief judge of the Western Judicial Circuit, announced Wednesday that jury trials will resume, with the Supreme Court of Georgia expected to approve the resumption of trials statewide next month.
“We’ll summon more people than normal to ensure we’ll have the prerequisite number of people to sit on the juries,” Norris said. “We’ve had some folks out there (in jail) for at least a year who were ready for trial in March last year when everything shut down.
Authorities say a Hampton man found hiding Friday, Feb. 19, under a Flowery Branch home’s back deck ran from three traffic stops in the Gainesville/Hall County area before being captured.
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Why Hall County planners tabled Flowery Branch self-storage facility
Update, Feb. 15: The Hall County Planning Commission voted to postpone discussion on an application to construct a 61,000 square feet self-storage warehouse off Spout Springs Road in South Hall at their Feb. 15 meeting.
The proposal, which has been tabled twice in two Hall County Planning Commission meetings, will go before the board on March 1.
The reasoning for the item to be tabled from the Feb.15 agenda, at the request of the applicant C. Sam McGee of Flowery Branch, was to “examine the floodplains and buffers in the area” before action could be taken by the board.
How public reacted to townhome project in South Hall being OK’d by Hall County commission
What began as a nearly 400-home South Hall housing development featuring apartments and townhomes ended up Thursday night as a 225-townhome complex.
The Hall County Board of Commissioners voted Jan. 28 to approve Ridgeline Land Planning’s rezoning request to allow the 40-acre development at 7285 Spout Springs Road, near the massive Reunion subdivision.
The decision displeased residents who showed up to oppose the project, with shouts of “No way!” and “Boo!” after the vote. One resident on the way out of the meeting said, “Wait until the election, Kathy.”