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Social Circle Council meets tonight
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Staff Report
Published: Sep 14, 2010, 1:56 PM

Social Circle City Council members will get to meet some junior ambassadors in a called meeting at 6:30 tonight in the community room in city hall at 138 E. Hightower Road.

The Social Circle Better Hometown program will introduce the council to four Social Circle High School seniors who will serve as BHT Junior Ambassadors, according to Mike Miller, manager of the better hometown program.

Junior Ambassadors meet four hours a month and learn how a city works, how to bring business to a community and other skills that will make them young spokesmen for Social Circle, according to Miller.

In other business, grand marshals for the Oct. 2 Friendship Festival will be announced and the council will consider a zoning variance request for Star Home Builders in Townpark subdivision.
April 3 crash kills two young adults, injures third
Newton County Sheriff Car---WEB
Kate Verity
Published: Apr 4, 2025, 10:29 PM

NEWTON COUNTY — Around 10 a.m. on Thursday, a head-on collision on Highway 212 left two young adults dead and a third hospitalized.

Joe Navarro, 21, was driving the vehicle and Breanna Smith, 18, was in the passenger seat. Katie New, 20, sat between them.

According to the Newton County Sheriff’s Office, the vehicle lost control while going around a curve and crossed the centerline, where it collided head-on with a box truck. The crash report shows that their vehicle traveled another hundred feet after impact before coming to a stop. It spun, ended up facing the opposite direction on the shoulder of the opposite lane.

Navarro and Smith were pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. New was airlifted to Grady Hospital. Her current condition is not known. 

Navarro, Smith and New were not believed to be wearing seatbelts when the collision occurred.

The driver of the box truck was not reported to have suffered any injuries.

This is an ongoing story. The News will post updates as they are made available.