LOOKING BACK
Sept. 20, 2000
JACKSON REGAINS HER SEAT ON RINCON COUNCIL
Rachael Jackson got 66 votes Tuesday, tops in a six-way race for a seat on the Rincon City Council.
Jackson previously served on the council for nine years, but had to step down after staging an unsuccessful race for mayor in 1997.
Now, she will replace former council member Michael King who resigned in May to accept an out-of-town job transfer.
King had served as a council member since January 1998. His unexpired term runs through 2001.
There will be no runoff, as Jackson needed only a plurality to win.
Sept. 19, 2001
STUDENTS’ PATRIOTIC CONCERT IS PART OF HEALING PROCESS
More than 800 young musicians from three high schools, two middle schools and the Armstrong Atlantic State University wind ensemble took to Rebel Field near Springfield to perform about 10 patriotic and spiritual selections en masse.
Organizers hoped thousands would attend the hour-long performance, contribute to 9/11 disaster relief and show their support for America.
Donations taken at the gate and profits from concessions will go to the United Way of New York to help the victims of the attacks.
The bands and choruses practiced individually a collection of nine selections.
At the concert, the bands and the choruses combined, with certain selections performed by the massed bands, others by the massed choruses and two selections featuring all 800-plus musicians.
Sept,21, 2006
COMMISSIONERS ASK LEGISLATORS TO DISREGARD REFERENDUM RESULTS
Proposals to create an at-large chairman and an elections board were panned by Effingham County commissioners, who said sparse voting on the referendum items in the July primary were unconvincing.
Some voters misunderstood the proposal and others did not realize the major government restructuring it would cause, commissioners said.
But numbers were the primary reason listed by commissioners for approving a resolution asking local state legislators not to proceed with either change.
The at-large commission chairman proposal passed by about 2,000 votes and the vote margin concerning the elections board plan was about 900.
Chair Verna Phillips said she had mixed feelings about making the resolution vote unanimous.
“I don’t feel as strongly about the chairman at-large as the other commissioners, but I am signing this resolution out of respect for them,” Phillips said.
After debating the at-large chairman issue for more than 10 years and considering an elections board during the last three years, voters’ opinions on the topics were listed on a “straw-poll” type, non-binding resolution on ballots in the July primary.