Barrow County News Archives

In a spate of personnel-related allegations, three separate investigations of Barrow County and its employees are pending.

A senior Barrow County official has hired an Duluth labor attorney, and commissioners will hire a private investigator to look into allegations of workplace discrimination.

Barrow County drug agents have arrested a detention center officer in an undercover drug operation.

Jovan Shanta Campbell, 26, arrested Tuesday, has a long rap sheet. A career criminal who attracted attention by peeking into cars at a Westside hotel tried to slip past police early Tuesday by calling in a phony report of a shooting nearby, Athens-Clarke police said.

Barrow County's contract extension with its inmate health care provider is set to expire at the end of the month, but according to a memo to commissioners, it's possible the county will have to continue the extension another 30 days.

Federal officials announced Thursday they had arrested more than 300 people across the United States, in raids targeting the newest and most violent Mexican drug cartel operating within U.S. borders - and Barrow County's own had a hand in it.

Mark Melvin resigned Friday as Barrow County emergency services director to become assistant chief with the Oconee County Fire Department.

Barrow County sheriff's deputies Wednesday raided a Hoschton grow house - and a "grow trailer" next door - seized a number of marijuana plants and arrested three men.

The Norton Commercial Group announces the addition of Doug Garrison and Wayne Parker to the Gainesville-based Norton Agency's Winder office.

Megan Lamb, center right, leans on friend Alex Ramirez during Peace Place's ninth annual candlelight vigil Tuesday outside the Barrow County Courthouse in Winder.

The Barrow County cities met with County Commission Chairman Danny Yearwood Friday, and the chairman took time to explain his actions at the last meeting, when he alluded to breaking water contracts and exiting the room.

A Good Hope woman was flown by air ambulance to Atlanta Medical Center late Friday evening her sport utility vehicle collided with a Barrow County school bus carrying the Winder-Barrow Bulldogg Marching Band home from a football game in Rockdale County, according to the Georgia State Patrol.

The Barrow County Chamber of Commerce came together on Tuesday afternoon for its monthly luncheon, and to learn about the Barrow County Schools plans to become a Charter System.

A Barrow County man died while hunting in a bizarre incident. The 68-year-old Winder resident died when a rattlesnake bit him on the leg.

Low- and medium-income residents in the area's most pressing civil legal needs are in family law, a group of lawyers and legal advocates said.

The Barrow County Board of Commissioners is set to approve the 2010 fiscal year millage rate Tuesday.

" The Community Bank &Trust in Bethlehem was robbed by two armed men just after 4:00 p.m. Thursday.

Local government leaders in Barrow County abandoned negotiations over a water service contract after county Commission Chairman Danny Yearwood announced a plan to raise wholesale water rates and abruptly left a meeting last week.

A Hoschton man, jailed in Jackson County on child molestation charges, now faces similar charges in Barrow County.

HOSCHTON a ' A three month investigation came to an end Monday into alleged child molestation with the arrest of a Hoschton man.

A Barrow County man was in the hospital Monday night after being attacked by his friend's dog.

Church's Chicken recently marked its grand opening celebration in Winder, and Owner Alex Roshan welcomed Barrow County Chamber of Commerce ambassadors and others.

Piedmont Regional Library System officials made a special request from the commissioners of Barrow, Jackson and Banks counties during this year's budget cycle - $1 per resident to buy new books.

What do you want to see in Winder's future? Residents will have the chance to answer that question at the city's next Livable Centers Initiative meeting on Oct.