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Article #1189Re: Alcohol in Georgia
From: Lin Wright
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 1994 00:07
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 1994 00:07
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In article <terrygCup2zD.E0G@netcom.com> terryg@netcom.com (Terry J. Gardner) writes: >In article <mastalerCuA4uH.Krw@netcom.com> mastaler@netcom.com (Jason Mastaler) writes: >. >. First, I have heard that it isn't legal for merchants to sell alcohol >. on SUNDAY. >. of a religious nature, then why isn't this policy active in Eastern Blue laws vary state to state. In Massachusetts, they only just a couple of years ago allowed retail stores to open on Sunday and are only allowed of open on certain holidays with permission of the police chief (so some towns allow it, some not). > >. Second, I have not yet seen a grocery store that has hard liquor >. in it's isles. Sure, there is beer and wine, but no bottles of rum, >. vodka, bourbon etc.. This also, is something I have only noticed in >. Georgia. Since I haven't traveled much out of Atlanta, I can't speak >. for the whole state, but I would guess it to be true everywhere. > In New Hanpshire the only hard liquor is sold by the state in stores owned and operated by the NH State Liquor Commission. There are no private liquor stores. You can buy beer and wine in the grocery store (they began allowing that in the early 80s).
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10e1e4,6b38a313ccd658c0 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e1e4,public X-Google-Thread: fa15f,6b38a313ccd658c0 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa15f,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-08-27 17:36:18 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!redstone.interpath.net!ddsw1!panix!news.intercon.com!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!udel!gvls1!emory!pirates!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!hobbes.cc.uga.edu!UGA.CC.UGA.EDU!ERWRIGHT From: ERWRIGHT@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (Lin Wright) Newsgroups: ga.general,atl.general Subject: Re: Alcohol in Georgia Date: Sat, 27 Aug 94 20:07:09 EDT Organization: University of Georgia Lines: 23 Message-ID: <1701F11B04.ERWRIGHT@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> References: <mastalerCuA4uH.Krw@netcom.com> <terrygCup2zD.E0G@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: uga.cc.uga.edu Keywords: strange, booze X-Newsreader: NNR/VM S_1.3.2