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No Sales Tax-Free Weekend Hurts Businesses | Patch PM
One of safest cities in America | Former teacher faces 20 child sex assault charges | Solar eclipse school impact, festival | New movies out
Georgia business owners say their bottom lines are hurting because the state won't have a sales-tax free weekend this year, and which Georgia city is the fourth-safest community in the country? Plus, a former Gwinnett band director has been indicted for 20 counts of child sexual assault. Here are the top local news stories worth reading and talking about on Friday, July 28, as pulled from our Georgia Patch sites.
Small Businesses Missing Georgia Sales-Tax Holiday
In Georgia, this weekend will come and go without a sales-tax holiday — a late July break on clothing, computers and school supplies that had become something of an annual tradition in the state. For retailers, especially small, independently owned stores, that news is as bad, if not worse than, it is for Peach State consumers.
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Alarms.org, the official site of the National Council for Home Safety and Security, named Johns Creek to the Top 100 Safest Cities in America list, which was released this week.
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A former Gwinnett County high school band director has been indicted on charges that he repeatedly sexually assaulted four of his students. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Villie Jones, the former band director at South Gwinnett High School, has been indicted on 20 charges of sexual assault and one charge of child molestation.
More Georgia headlines:
- Solar Eclipse: Cartersville To Extend School Day
- Movies Out This Weekend: 'Atomic Blonde,' 'Detroit,' 'Brigsby Bear, 'An Inconvenient Sequel,' 'The Emoji Movie'
- Woman Dies From Injuries In Crash; Driver Charged With Homicide
- Starbucks To Close Teavana Store At North Point Mall
- Solar Eclipse Festival Planned In DeKalb
- Motorist Ejected In Rollover Crash In Cartersville
- Man Robbed At ATM; Overdose Victims Revived With Narcan: Blotter
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