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The Obama Presidential Center announced Thursday that a number of its spaces will be named for historic human and civil rights figures. But as that center marches closer toward its opening date, one neighboring community has concerns about the center’s impact on longtime residents.

A wrong-way crash on Ga. 365 south of Demorest-Mt. Airy Highway Wednesday morning injured a Cornelia man and sent a Toccoa woman to jail. "At approximately 6:42 this morning, a 2012 Chrysler 200, driven by Chester Skelton, 93, of Cornelia, mistakenly traveled the wrong way onto Ga. 15 [Ga. 365] going north in the southbound lanes,” said Cpl. John Getty of Georgia State Patrol Post 7 in Toccoa. “The Chrysler had a head-on collision with a 2020 Chevrolet pickup, driven by Annie Chamlee, 46, o...