COVINGTON, Ga. – The controversy about what to do with Confederate monuments affecting the rest of the South came to Newton County Tuesday night during the citizen comments portion of the Newton County Board of Commissioners (BOC) meeting when somebody called for the BOC to vote on removing the monument to the county’s Civil War dead from the Covington Square. The citizen, who first broached the subject of removing the monument a little over two months ago, asked that a vote to remove the monument be placed on the agenda of a future BOC meeting. “I want to begin to ask now to place the