The Chatter Box
By Deborah Bennett

If you have visited out website lately, you may have noticed a new feature we are offering readers - late breaking news via e-mail. Just enter your e-mail address in the box at the top right-hand corner of the webpage and when something happens in our community - accidents, crime, general news, - you'll be among the first to know. This is a free service. The website is www.themillennews.com.

Also, an Internet subscription is only $15 annually. A combination print and Internet subscription is $33 for our incounty subscribers. The current edition of The Millen News is available on our website Wednesday mornings, but you cannot read the entire story unless you have a subscription.

All past issues of the newspaper are accessible in the Archives section without a subscription. So if you need a copy of a past article, just go to the edition in which it appeared in the Archives. If you don't know the date of publication, use the search engine to find it by typing in a few "key" words.

Isn't technology wonderful - when it works!

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Responses to last week's Question of the Week - Would you support consolidation of our city and county governments?

"Consolidation of city and county government needs to be explored as an option if it would benefit the citizens of Millen and Jenkins County. I'm sure some services are duplicated and could be combined. Other city/county small towns have done this successfully, and those that had problems should be investigated."

"I think it is a good idea if it would provide some tax relief for our citizens. We can't keep raising taxes when people are unemployed and struggling to just get by."

"I would support consolidation of our city and county governments. There are not enough people in Jenkins County for two forms of government. The way the board of education is handling the taxpayers' money, we will have to consolidate with another county."

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Question of the Week - What do you think is the most important change that must take place in our community in order to improve chances of enticing industry to locate here?

E-mail your anonymous responses or suggestions for a Question of the Week to themillennews@yahoo.com, mail to P. O. Box 909, Millen, GA 30442, fax to 478-982-5460 or leave in drop box on the door of our Cotton Avenue office. Responses should be limited to 40 words and should be received at our office by 10 a.m. Mondays.

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Happy birthday this week to: Jetson Groover, Don Godbee, Watson Rocker, Anna Joiner, Chris Landing, Cheryl Adams, Evelyn Shackelford, Krissi Lane, Keith Lee, and Reanna Glisson.

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Celebration wedding anniversaries are: Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Goodwin, Mr. and Mrs. Dwayne Herrington, and Mr. and Mrs. Horace Weathersby, III.

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Military Active Duty List: Lance Cpl. Lee Ogden, U.S. Marines, Radio and Communications, Bahria, Iraq; Petty Officer 3rd Class Eric B. Kelsey, U.S. Navy, NSA Bahrain; PV2 Ashley Clifton, U.S. Army, Yongsan, Korea; Airman First Class Charles F. Woods, Moody Air Force Base, Valdosta, GA; Capt. Andrew P. Thomas, U.S. Marines, F.A.S.T. Company, Yorktown, VA; Stuart Burrus, U.S. Air Force, Bossier AFB, Bossier, LA; SPC 4 Travis D. Motes, 1st Calvary Division, T. Hood, Texas; Capt. Donald Slade Burke, Travis Air Force Base, Fairfield, Calif.; Staff Sgt. Gilbert C. Sheppard III, 48th Brigade, 118th Field Artillery, Iraq; Petty Officer 3rd Class Jamie A. Yager, U.S. Navy, Marine Corps Base Hawaii; Petty Chief Officer Andy D. Crosby, U.S. Navy, Elroy Destroyer, Norfolk, Va.; Stephanie Crosby, R.N., U.S. Navy, Lafayette Destroyer; Jimmy Cooper, U.S. Army National Guard, 878th Engineering Battalion Augusta, Persian Gulf ; 1st Lt. J.R. Taylor, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Iraq; SPC. Daniel Stuart, 18th MEDCOM, 121 General Hospital, Seoul, Korea; Jeffrey Sweat, U.S. Navy, USS Kauffman, MM3 59/E-Division, A-Gang, Norfolk, Va.; Cpl. Larry Lamont Clark, U.S. Marine Corp, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C. Bagdad, Iraq; Khan Young, U.S. Navy, U.S.S. Kitty Hawk, Persian Gulf; Robert Milton Jr., E-3, U.S. Army, Ft. Stewart, Hinesville, Ga., Mission Kuwait; Arnold R. Mosley, 2nd Lt., U.S. Air Force, Randolph AFB, Texas; and Debra A. Mosley, Tech. Sgt., U.S. Air Force, Randolph AFB, Texas.