Vincent Marshall

Vincent Marshall

Fulton County Quorum Court: New jail blueprints approved

Another step in a possible jail expansion for Fulton County was approved during the August quorum court meeting as a $12,500 price tag to hire an architecture firm to create blueprints and schematics for the expansion were approved.According to Fulton County Sheriff Jake Smith, Level5 of Fayetteville is the firm he will be working with on creating the blueprints.

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This edition of the Areawide News marks the first full-year we became one big happy newspaper when we combined the Villager Journal and The News.Full transparency, I never liked the name “The News.” I often complained on how it was redundant, especially with talking to individuals and entities and having to explain what “news” I was associated with.

CV SID commissioner charged with harassment

The Cherokee Village Suburban Improvement District is again under the microscope as it was released one of its commissioners has been arrested and charged with alleged harassment of a citizen.According to a police report provided by CV Police Chief Monte Lane, SID commissioner David Nebel, 69, was cited for harassment after an alleged incident occurred at the Lake Sequoyah boat ramp in Cherokee Village that occurred between July 19-26 and reported on July 31.Coy Holder, 74, of Ravenden, reported the incident to law enforcement where he was said to tell Chief Lane on two occasions, “David Nebel had aggravated and harassed him while he was fishing on Lake Thunderbird.”The police report stated Holder had been allegedly harassed on three different occasions while fishing and that on two of those occasions it was from a boat dock where Nebel was said to tell Holder, “He was in big trouble now and was going to be arrested and kicked off the lake.”Holder was said to have told Lane that Nebel berated him and another individual listed as Joey Jessen.