Abbottsford, GA News http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/georgia/abbottsford/ Abbottsford, GA News Brenau Universitys new students move into dorms http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/georgia/abbottsford/content/3687efab2c162dce69b23e6c08f868b9.html About 150 Brenau University students kissed curfews and parents goodbye Wednesday Parents driving overloaded minivans flooded the campus of Brenau University as freshmen and transfer students moved into residence halls On Saturday 315 returning students will move into university housing an administrator said Buford No 1 North Hall No 8 in Associated Press preseason football http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/georgia/abbottsford/content/97167d865049fb090d3223f75faec37f.html The Top Ten teams in the Associated Press Georgia high school football preseason poll of the 2008 season with firstplace votes in parentheses and total points: College presidents: Rethink drinking age http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/georgia/abbottsford/content/599bd917cfb2681659d1303a8131763b.html The presidents of about 100 US colleges and universities have joined a movement calling on lawmakers to consider lowering the legal drinking age from 21 to 18 Construction begins on mill near Comer http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/georgia/abbottsford/content/1656b3bfadef9f4af98ead1b0712ab82.html The impending relocation of Columbia Farms' Franklin Countybased manufacturing facility to Comer not only represents the creation of about 50 jobs but it also represents the first large industrial prospect to move to Madison County in more than two decades NC push for biolab called off http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/georgia/abbottsford/content/91bbcdffa89861e0931e7dc2f2249780.html North Carolina officials have stopped trying to convince residents that a proposed federal research lab will be safe all but taking the state out of the running for the facility Researcher says bigfoot just a rubber gorilla suit http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/georgia/abbottsford/content/ecb66f9b185e6be1c622367ae8b4f913.html Turns out Bigfoot was just a rubber suit Two researchers on a quest to prove the existence of Bigfoot say that the carcass encased in a block of ice handed over to them for an undisclosed sum by two men who claimed to have found it was slowly thawed out and discovered to be a rubber gorilla outfit The revelation comes just days after a much ballyhooed news conference was held in California to proclaim that the remains of the creature found in the North Georgia mountains was the legendary manape Council turns up heat in firehouse fight http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/georgia/abbottsford/content/0534251e2061c3389ce9639c9c5afcf8.html With the threat of a mayoral veto looming the city council voted Monday to pull Atlanta's oldest firehouse off the budget chopping block Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin had warned Friday that she would reverse the council's decision writing in a threepage letter that the city cannot afford to save Fire Station Number 7 Franklin closed the firehouse last month as part of an effort to dig the city out of a 14 million deficit First Baptist Church honors longtime pastor celebrates new building http://www.axtora.com/homesites/us/georgia/abbottsford/content/c93900542d408bb00ee8d3c171cee02e.html First Baptist Church on Green Street celebrated the completion of a large addition to the church complex Sunday and honored its pastor for a decade of service