The Pike County Journal-Reporter

Entries from July 2020

CAT TALE: Local family and cat BleuBelle featured

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in Headlines

Thursday, July 9. 2020

A local feline - and her loving family - were recently featured by The Dodo, a news service that focuses on telling heartwarming stories about animals. BleuBelle was adopted by the Neath family of Concord in June 2013. [Full story »]

Saints in Light award presented to Pike’s Ron Anglin

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Rachel McDaniel

in Headlines

Tuesday, July 7. 2020

Ron Anglin of Molena brings smiles and hope to sick children and their families in Georgia’s children’s hospitals at Grady, Scottish Rite, Egleston and Piedmont Columbus where Ron serves as the site supervisor. He has been ministering to kids of all ages in hospitals since 2005 when he trained and was hired by the Big Apple Circus Atlanta Clown Care Unit. [Full story »]

County budget drops $1.3 million dollars

Posted by

Rachel McDaniel

in Top Stories

Tuesday, July 7. 2020

Pike County commissioners set the 2020-21 fiscal year budget at their Tuesday, June 30 regular meeting, reducing the budget by $1.37 million and dropping the millage rate two points. The new fiscal year started July 1 with a budget of $13,642,329, compared to last year’s budget of $15,012,838. The county’s mil rate dropped from 14.26 with the 2019-20 budget to 12.18 with the new budget. [Full story »]

COVID-19 executive order extended

Posted by

Rachel McDaniel

in COVID-19 Monitor

Monday, July 6. 2020

Pike now has 103 confirmed cases of COVID-19, with three deaths and 10 hospitalizations. In surrounding counties, there were 130 confirmed cases in Lamar with six deaths, 216 cases in Meriwether with three deaths, 378 cases in Upson with 43 deaths, and 467 cases in Spalding with 32 deaths as of Monday, July 6. [Full story »]

Ralph Edwin Hogan

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Rachel McDaniel

in Death Notices

Monday, July 6. 2020

Former teacher and coach Ralph Edwin Hogan, Jr., age 67, of Concord, GA, died Sunday, July 5, 2020, at his residence. His family will receive friends on Wednesday evening, July 8, from 6:00 – 8:30 PM, at Fletcher-Day Funeral Home in Thomaston.  [Full story »]

Douglas Marvin Allen

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Rachel McDaniel

in Death Notices

Monday, July 6. 2020

Douglas Marvin Allen, 78, of Suffolk, VA, died at his residence on Friday, July 3, 2020. He was born in Zebulon, Georgia on May 6, 1942, to the late Henry C. and Johnette R. Allen. He graduated from Pike County High in Georgia 1960 and from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1965, the first Pike County graduate to do so. [Full story »]