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Melinda Cooper speaks to guests and law enforcement officers gathered Tuesday at the Alabama Welcome Center of I-20 for the annual “Hands Across the Border” program between Alabama and Georgia to kick off the Labor Day crackdown on drunk driving, speeding and lack  of seat belt usage. Alabama and Georgia join against drunken driving
If 30 jumbo jets fell out of the sky each year over America, killing 12,000 people there would probably be a great public clamor. Yet that same amount of people are killed each year due to drunk drivers and there is little said about it.
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Rambler James Newton, right, greets fellow mule-skinner and local resident Henry Grubbs to his encampment behind American Legion Post 19 in Heflin as dog Buster Brown checks things out. Photo: Wayne Ruple A Ramblin’ Man: Modern day Steinbeck has no worries
Over a year and a half ago, James Newton , 69, departed Corpus Christi, Texas in a homemade wagon covered with plastic tarps purchased from Wal-Mart, pulled by a horse named “Friday” and accompanied by his miniature short-haired dachshund “Buster Brown” and having toured seven states he’s still ramblin’ the South and intends to do so for the next several years.
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13th Annual Hwy. 46 Yard Sale set for Sept. 24-26
Thirteen years ago when Dodson and Verna Mathies had a yard sale with friends and decided to expand it a little, they had no idea that 13 years later the yard sale would extend for 25 miles and attract shoppers from three states.
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Cleburne taxpayers will spend big on Afghan war
According to the National Priorities Project (www.nationalpriorities.org) the taxpayers of Cleburne County will pay big for the proposed Afghanistan war spending in fiscal year 2011 – $3.1 million to be exact.
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BP pays $22,686 to claimants in Cleburne
by Wayne Ruple
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According to their latest update, BP has paid $22,686 to claimants in Cleburne County resulting from the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.
Cable customers may get better service in Heflin
by Wayne Ruple
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Cable television subscribers in Heflin may be in for some better service now that the city has been notified that CoBridge Telecom is in the process of acquiring Charter Communication’s cable system serving the community.
County facing ‘invasion’
by Wayne Ruple
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A creepy-crawly army has invaded Cleburne County and other parts of the state and they are doing plenty of damage to lawns and hay fields as they quickly gobble up tender green grass.
Broadband to expand in Cleburne
by Wayne Ruple
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Alabama Governor Bob Riley announced this week that a $21,286,914 federal grant will expand high-speed (broadband) Internet service in Cleburne, Clay, Calhoun and several counties in northwest Georgia.
Leadership needed to take advantage of natural resources local group told
by Wayne Ruple
news@cleburnenews.com
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Alabama probably has more rivers than any other state in the nation but the water quality is twice as bad as most around the country.
You can just taste it ...
by Kathleen Douglas
Cleburne County Extension Service
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The Cleburne-Heflin Farmers Market officially opened July 6 in McIntyre Park across from the Heflin Recreation Center, but on July 13 more growers than ever before showed up on that humid Tuesday morning ready to sell their fresh produce. Corn, okra, tomatoes, squash, melons….you can just taste it!
No trial date for water suit
by Wayne Ruple
news@cleburnenews.com
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No trial date has been set in a lawsuit filed by the Cleburne County Water Authority seeking an estimated $580,000 from the Randolph County Water Authority.

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