Politics & Government

Week in Review: Mayor Resigns, New Businesses, County Budget Matters

New to our site? Or did you miss any of our stories last week? Check out highlights of the week that was in our Week in Review for June 19-25.

Last week was a busy one news-wise, with perhaps the biggest headline coming on Wednesday, as Hiram Mayor Carmen Rollins the night before .

Hiram got another big headline the next day, as we learned that Academy Sports, as well as some other businesses, .

The new businesses will hopefully help the county financially in the future, but we learned last week that the Paulding’s current fiscal situation is not as bright, as . The county Board of Commissioners to discuss the fiscal year 2012 budget.

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School may still be out for the summer, but we found out that many Paulding County pupils made the grade when it came to this spring’s Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests. .

The Georgia Military Softball Championship concluded Sunday, June 19, with 12 teams taking home awards. and . We’ll have even more coverage of it very soon.

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The same weekend saw the Meth Alliance of Paulding County holding its fifth-annual March Against Meth 5K. .

Speaking of videos, this weekend we brought you our inaugural installment of “Dinner and Movie,” which includes a video review of a new release in the theaters and a place to eat before you head there. .

Two of our bloggers gave us some good posts to read this past week. Mary Carol Sheffield , while Jody May gave us two posts right out of the gate— and the other on .

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