PAULDING COUNTY AIRPORT, Dallas, Ga., July 16, 2014 – Georgia Guardsman Capt. Jason Royal and his son, Pvt. 1st Class Hector Royal, a fellow Guardsman, prepare to jump out of a perfectly good UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter during airborne operations at Paulding County Airport in Dallas, Ga.

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If you are planning a balloon release for a special occasion, understand that the moment or two of delight the balloons provide can have deadly consequences for the environment. When you release balloons you are littering and your litter creates numerous threats to wildlife. Before you plan a balloo…

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DO YOU WANT A COMMERCIAL AIRPORT THAT WILL BRING LARGE PASSENGER JETS TO PAULDING COUNTY? IF NOT, PLEASE ATTEND THE DEC. 1ST, TUESDAY NIGHT PUBLIC HEARING TO LET THE FAA KNOW HOW YOU FEEL! The FAA wants to know what we think about this life altering possibility. If commercialization is granted, Paulding County will NEVER be the same again! So, if you don’t want to live in another East Point, College Park, Hapeville, Forest Park, Jonesboro or Riverdale, we NEED your support at the Hearing! And don’t believe what they tell us about there only being a few flights a week. Sure, that might be the case early on, but THEIR PLAN IS TO DEVELOP THE AIRPORT INTO A REGIONAL HUB… and that’s a lot of jets! (See excerpts from the AA’s Court Brief below.) You’re welcome to speak or submit a written comment at the Hearing if you’d like. If not, just be there to support your neighbors, your county, your tax dollars and your future! Every person counts, so PLEASE JOIN US, rain or shine! DATE: DEC. 1, 2015 Need a ride? Just let us know! TIME: 6:00 p.m. to review message boards and other visuals from the airport sponsor. The Public Hearing begins at 7:00 p.m. and will last until everyone wishing to speak gets their chance! Speakers are on a first-come, first served basis. You can bring the kids! WHERE: Paulding Northwest Atlanta Airport 730 Airport Parkway (Off of 278) Dallas, GA 30157 The following excerpts are from the Airport Authority’s Supreme Court Bond Intervention Court Brief – not the Plaintiffs' (residents): P. 8: “Silver Comet is involved with the overall transformation of the Airport into a regional hub for commercial flights.” P. 18: “The Project the Bond is intended to finance is one small piece of the Appellees' master plan to turn its small, relatively local Airport into a regional hub for commercial flights.” .

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Phacops rana crassituberculata Stumm, 1953 - fossil trilobites from the Devonian of Ohio, USA. (Dave Mielke collection; temporary public display, Ohio Geological Survey, Columbus, Ohio, USA)

This fossil is also known as Eldredgeops rana crassituberculata.

Trilobites are extinct marine arthropods. They first appear in Lower Cambrian rocks and the entire group went extinct at the end of the Permian. Trilobites had a calcitic exoskeleton and nonmineralizing parts underneath (legs, gills, gut, etc.). The calcite skeleton is most commonly preserved in the fossil record, although soft-part preservation is known in some trilobites (Ex: Burgess Shale and Hunsruck Slate). Trilobites had a head (cephalon), a body of many segments (thorax), and a tail (pygidium). Molts and carcasses usually fell apart quickly - most trilobite fossils are isolated parts of the head (cranidium and free cheeks), individual thoracic segments, or isolated pygidia. The name "trilobite" was introduced in 1771 by Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch and refers to the tripartite division of the trilobite body - it has a central axial lobe that runs longitudinally from the head to the tail, plus two side lobes (pleural lobes).

Seen here are famous trilobites whose remains are relatively common in the Middle Devonian-aged Silica Formation of northeastern Ohio. These are Phacops rana crassituberculata (also known as Eldredgeops, an unnecessary genus name based on taxonomic oversplitting). Phacops trilobite fossils occur with other typical Middle Paleozoic shallow marine invertebrates: brachiopods, bryozoans, crinoids, and corals.

Classification: Animalia, Arthropoda, Trilobita, Polymerida, Phacopidae

Stratigraphy: Silica Formation (also known as the Silica Shale), Givetian Stage, upper Middle Devonian

Locality: quarry northwest of the town of Paulding, northern Paulding County, northwestern Ohio, USA (41° 10' 52.55" North latitude, 84° 37' 19.32" West longitude)

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Recycle recycle recycle! Paulding has a recycling center and many trash companies offer recycling these days! #cleanisclassypaulding

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Piedmont Azalea (Rhododendron canescens). Pickett's Mill State Historic Site, Paulding County, Georgia.

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DARE Lesson Incorporates Role Models Deputy Mitch Moyer is a DARE instructor for the Paulding County Sheriff's Office. He recently taught a lesson at New Georgia Elementary School where he called on South Paulding High School (SPHS) seniors to speak to the 5th Grade DARE students. SPHS students Allie Moyer, Madison Willits, Jewell Joseph, Jorell Story, Rachel Whitener, Tanner Holcomb, Kane Williams, and Dianna Moyer (SPHS Administrator) spoke to the 5th graders about their choice to remain drug free and what it takes to do it. The seniors also took time to answer questions that the 5th grade students had. This was a good lesson and the elementary students really enjoyed it. Great Job Deputy Moyer!

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2001 Sutphen SA75

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Truck 2 is currently using this loander apparatus from the local Sutphen dealer, Williams Fire Apparatus, while their E-ONE is out for repair and their new SPH100 is still being built.

Paulding County Fire Station 2:

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Paulding, Michigan. One of my favorite Michigan waterfalls.

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Winter Weather Preparedness - Day 4 The National Weather Service refers to winter storms as the “Deceptive Killers” because most deaths are indirectly related to the storm. Instead, people die in traffic accidents on icy roads and of hypothermia from prolonged exposure to cold. Be sure to follow winter weather safety rules during winter storms and extreme cold. Remember, it is important to be prepared for winter weather before it strikes!

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Paulding County, Ohio Sheriff Department Ford Crown Victoria at the courthouse in Paulding.

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Historic 1921 World War I Monument in front of the old Knoxville High School in Knox County, Tennessee. The monument contains John Paulding's cast bronze doughboy statue "Over the Top" (Model 2043-A). It was dedicated by U.S. Gen. John “Black Jack” Pershing in 1922.

The World War I Monument was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1994 as a contributing resource to the Emory Place Historic District (NRIS No. 94001259).

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A frontal system is expected to push across the area by late Sunday into Monday. For now widespread showers are likely with a slight chance of thunderstorms. The main threats are strong gusty winds, brief heavy rain, and occasional lightning, though any increase in instability would greatly increase the chance for stronger storms. Please monitor updates as much uncertainty exists with the evolution of this system. www.weather.gov/atlanta

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Paulding Theatre, 114 West Perry Street, Paulding, Ohio. This former theatre closed in the 1990s and has been vacant ever since. A neon sign atop the facade was removed for restoration soon before this picture was taken.

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Commissioner Todd Pownall says he's representing Paulding County, but that's not what it looked like this week at EA Meeting. Don't forget he wrote a letter to Richard Anderson, CEO of Delta, thanking him for fighting the commercialization of Silver Comet Field!!! It looks like he supports Delta Air Lines more than he supports us, the citizens of Paulding County. .

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Winter Weather Preparedness- Day 3 As Winter Weather Preparedness Week continues, remember to winterize your vehicle. Here are some tips:

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The Paulding sheriff's office and landfill will have new vehicles to help with the dirty work they sometimes do for the public. The Paulding County Commission voted Tuesday to purchase eight Ford Explorers from Hardy Family Ford for the sheriff's office for $24,619 apiece, or a total cost of $196,952.

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Paulding County Courthouse, Courthouse Square, Paulding, Ohio. This Richardsonian building was built erected in 1886. Designed by the E.O. Fallis Company and built by workers under the direction of general contractor Rudolph Ehrhart, the courthouse is a brick structure with a stone foundation and a roof of asphalt. Two-and-one-half stories tall with a central tower, the courthouse features nearly identical entrances on each of its four sides. Measuring 60 feet square, and 163 feet tall at the tip of its domed tower, the courthouse was patterned after the Lenawee County Courthouse in Michigan, which was also designed by the Fallis architects. In 1974, the Paulding County Courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Fossiliferous chert nodule in carbonate in the Devonian of Ohio, USA.

The brownish mass in the photo is a chert nodule representing partially silicified carbonate rock. This is an out-of-place quarry block of either limestone or dolostone. Within the chert nodule are two silicified solitary rugose corals ("horn corals").

Classification: Animalia, Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Rugosa

Stratigraphy: loose quarry block of Dundee Limestone or Lucas Dolomite, Middle Devonian

Locality: Auglaize Quarry (= Shelly Company, Stoneco's Auglaize Facility), southeast of the town of Junction, northeastern Paulding County, northwestern Ohio, USA (41° 10' 27.83" North latitude, 84° 25' 19.75" West longitude)

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On October 3rd, 2013, the residents of Paulding County, GA found out our local Airport Authority and Industrial Building Authority entered into "secret" contracts with Propeller Investments’ newly created subsidiary, Silver Comet Terminal Partners, LLC, to commercialize our small, county owned, g...

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TOMORROW IS THE DAY! If there is one meeting all year that you attend regarding the airport and the future of Paulding County, tomorrow night’s meeting at Silver Comet Field is the one! The consulting company who conducted the Environmental Assessment (EA) is holding a public hearing beginning at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 1 to discuss the recently completed EA – which found no significant environmental impact that should prevent the initiation of commercial air service. This is your chance to be heard Paulding County! Anyone who wishes to speak will have 3 minutes to comment on the EA and the proposed commercial air service. Sign up to make a verbal comment when you arrive; it will be first come, first serve. You can also provide comments privately, either in writing or verbally. Please come out and show your support for the airport and for this wonderful County. If you cannot attend the meeting, comments regarding the EA can be made at www.pauldingairport.com until January 10. Your input is vital and with your help we can Let Paulding Fly! 6:00pm Silver Comet Field 730 Airport Parkway Dallas, GA 30157 .

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Baggett Elementary DARE Essay Contest Winners Pictured left to right are Olivia Mays, Hannah Harris, Nahshon Hill, Taje Bailey, and Alexander Rogel. Behind them is DARE instructor Deputy Rodney Mitchell. These students were selected as the winnners of the DARE essay contest for Baggett Elementary. Congratulations to the Winners!

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PAULDING COUNTY AIRPORT, Dallas Ga. May 9, 2013 – Georgia Army National Guardsmen grew up in their communities and now they conduct mission specific training to be ready to help their fellow citizens or those in need around the world. Today Soldiers from the 560th Battle Field Surveillance Brigade jumped out of a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter to maintain their currency and proficiency as Airborne Soldiers who may need to parachute in to accomplish their assigned mission.

Parachutes deploy as Soldiers from Georgia’s 560th Battle Field Surveillance Brigade (BFSB) jump out of a UH-60 Blackhawk for their first jump of the day.

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Basidechenella lucasensis Stumm, 1965 - fossil trilobite from the Devonian of Ohio, USA. (Dave Mielke collection; temporary public display, Ohio Geological Survey, Columbus, Ohio, USA)

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This species is also known as Dechenella lucasensis.

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Trilobites are extinct marine arthropods. They first appear in Lower Cambrian rocks and the entire group went extinct at the end of the Permian. Trilobites had a calcitic exoskeleton and nonmineralizing parts underneath (legs, gills, gut, etc.). The calcite skeleton is most commonly preserved in the fossil record, although soft-part preservation is known in some trilobites (Ex: Burgess Shale and Hunsruck Slate). Trilobites had a head (cephalon), a body of many segments (thorax), and a tail (pygidium). Molts and carcasses usually fell apart quickly - most trilobite fossils are isolated parts of the head (cranidium and free cheeks), individual thoracic segments, or isolated pygidia. The name "trilobite" was introduced in 1771 by Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch and refers to the tripartite division of the trilobite body - it has a central axial lobe that runs longitudinally from the head to the tail, plus two side lobes (pleural lobes).

Seen here is a rare trilobite called Basidechenella lucasensis from the Middle Devonian-aged Silica Formation of northeastern Ohio. Silica Formation trilobites occur with other typical Middle Paleozoic shallow marine invertebrates: brachiopods, bryozoans, crinoids, and corals.

Classification: Animalia, Arthropoda, Trilobita, Polymerida, Proetidae

Stratigraphy: Silica Formation (also known as the Silica Shale), Givetian Stage, upper Middle Devonian

Locality: quarry northwest of the town of Paulding, northern Paulding County, northwestern Ohio, USA (41° 10' 52.55" North latitude, 84° 37' 19.32" West longitude)

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Several Black-capped Chickadees were busy gleaning tiny bug along the edges of the Ontonagon River below Bond Falls on a mild, late winter day. Paulding, Michigan 2/27/2021

This statue is located in the small, triangular Davidson Memorial Park near the intersection of Prairie and Villa streets in Elgin. The monument is a contributing object to the 1983 listing of the Elgin Historic District to the National Register of Historic Places.

For more information regarding this statue please follow this link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paulding_(sculptor)

Elgin, Illinois is a small city located in northeastern Kane County, to the northwest of Chicago.

This statue is located in the small, triangular Davidson Memorial Park near the intersection of Prairie and Villa streets in Elgin. The monument is a contributing object to the 1983 listing of the Elgin Historic District to the National Register of Historic Places.

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Elgin, Illinois is a small city located in northeastern Kane County, to the northwest of Chicago.

Fluorite from Ohio, USA. (Joseph Vasichko collection)

A mineral is a naturally-occurring, solid, inorganic, crystalline substance having a fairly definite chemical composition and having fairly definite physical properties. At its simplest, a mineral is a naturally-occurring solid chemical. Currently, there are about 5400 named and described minerals - about 200 of them are common and about 20 of them are very common. Mineral classification is based on anion chemistry. Major categories of minerals are: elements, sulfides, oxides, halides, carbonates, sulfates, phosphates, and silicates.

The halides are the "salt minerals", and have one or more of the following anions: Cl-, F-, I-, Br-.

Fluorite is a calcium fluoride mineral (CaF2). The most diagnostic physical property of fluorite is its hardness (H≡4). Fluorite typically forms cubic crystals and, when broken, displays four cleavage planes (also quite diagnostic). When broken under controlled conditions, the broken pieces of fluorite form double pyramids. Fluorite is a good example of a mineral that can be any color. Common fluorite colors include clear, purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, and brown. The stereotypical color for fluorite is purple. Purple is the color fluorite "should be". A mineral collector doesn't have fluorite unless it's a purple fluorite (!).

Fluorite occurs in association with some active volcanoes. HF emitted from volcanoes can react with Ca-bearing rocks to form fluorite crystals. Many hydrothermal veins contain fluorite. Much fluorite also occurs in the southern Illinois area (Mississippi Valley-type deposits).

Geologic context: vug-filling fluorite crystals in carbonate rock (found in September 2016) of the Detroit River Group or Dundee Limestone (Lower to Middle Devonian)

Locality: Stoneco Incorporated's Auglaize Quarry, southwest of the town of Junction, northeastern Paulding County, northwestern Ohio, USA

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Bought at a flea market, years ago. They were stuck under the glass of a promotional thermometer from the Paulding Transfer And Coal Company, of Paulding, Ohio.

East 233rd Street & Paulding Avenue, Bronx, New York City