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Semi stolen from Parker’s in Blitchton
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A Pembroke man reportedly drove off Tuesday with someone else’s “semi-truck with trailer” at a Parker’s convenience store parking lot in Blitchton, according to a Bryan County Sheriff ’s Office report. The incident report said deputies were alerted to the theft shortly before 2 p.m. and “had the tractor trailer traveling on Highway 80 into Effingham County.”

At the same time, the reporting deputy went to the Parker’s and met the driver, who said he left his truck unlocked and running and went inside the store. That’s when the man, who was later identified to authorities allegedly jumped into the truck and drove off. The truck driver’s company, based out of Kentucky, was able to track the tractor trailer and found it on Artley Road in Savannah. Savannah police found the truck stuck in the mud, but the man who left it there was gone.

He was later caught in Pooler, but the company declined to press charges, the report said.

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Decision on potential Parker's Kitchen location delayed
Decision on potential Parkers’ Kitchen location delayed
A picture of the Burnt Church Cemetery in Richmond Hill, Georgia. Residents at Tuesday's county commission meeting believe that the potential rezoning for the proposed Parkers' Kitchen location will negatively disrupt the historic gravesite. Photo credit: findagrave.com.
Bryan County Commissioners on Tuesday night deferred a decision on whether to rezone some 3.8 acres near the historic Burnt Church Cemetery to allow a Parker’s Kitchen convenience store. The vote to defer the decision for 30 days to look into concerns raised by opponents to the project came after several residents – including parents of children buried in the 195-year-old cemetery – urged commissioners to deny the rezoning.
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