Towns vanish, then reappear.When Georgia issued its new state map in December, many of its residents felt slighted--especially those living in places like Poetry Tulip, Between, and Centralhatchee. Those towns and more than 500 others had been omitted. Georgia's Department of Transportation [D.O.T.] said the goal was to "unclutter" the map. But small-town residents saw it as an insult in·sult n. A bodily injury, irritation, or trauma. insult Medtalk noun Any stressful stimulus which, under normal circumstances, does not affect the host organism, but which may result in morbidity, when it to rural America. Dennis Holt Dennis Graham Holt (born October 6, 1942, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California) is an American poet and linguist. Holt attended the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, Berkeley, and UCLA, from which he received the Ph.D. in Linguistics in 1986. led a campaign to have his town, Hickory Hickory, city, United States Hickory, city (1990 pop. 28,301), Burke and Catawba counties, W N.C., at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mts.; inc. 1870. It is a processing and trade center for an abundant agricultural region (grain, soybeans, poultry, hogs, Level, reinstated. And a flood of complaints to Georgia's Governor, Sonny Perdue George Ervin "Sonny" Perdue III (born December 20, 1946) is the governor of the U.S. state of Georgia. Upon his inauguration in January 2003, he became the first Republican governor of Georgia since Benjamin Conley at the end of Reconstruction in the 1870s. , prompted him to write a letter asking the D.O.T. to restore the small towns. In January, the D.O.T. relented: Georgia's small, towns will be back on the map. |
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