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Sheriff Mark Melton reports that the Appling County Sheriff’s Office completed the bid process for a Construction Management Company to oversee the new detention center addition. Allstate Construction Group, Inc., of Perry, was awarded the bid by the Appling County Commissioners.

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By: Mary Ann Ellis

Daddy dropped me and my paraphernalia off in Athens in late August, 1966, after helping lug my bags up two flights of stairs to room 318. He took me to lunch, handed me a twenty, dropped me off at Church Hall, and left. Two hours later homesickness attacked me the first time. I knew nobody in Athens; my roommate had shown up for five minutes and gone out again with her boyfriend, which became her pattern the whole quarter. Why on earth did I ever decide to come so far from home, I asked myself again and again.


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