Officials of the North Georgia Health District announced today that their county health departments’ hours of operation will change beginning Monday, November 16, 2009.  On that date, public health department clinics in Cherokee, Fannin, Gilmer, Murray, Pickens and Whitfield Counties will operate...

Georgia’s legendary coach and athletic director, Vince Dooley, will visit fans in Blairsville on Thursday, November 12. Zaxby’s of Blairsville will host him for a book signing at it restaurant location on GA 515. Described as “Dooley’s book tour of Georgia,” the popular...

Focusing on the Harmon Brown Family of Union/Towns Counties (Part 3 in Brown Family Series) By Ethelene Dyer-Jones Columnist As Part 1 and Part 2 of this Brown Family Series indicates, the Browns were a major part of the population of early Union County, and, because of the location where some of them...

United Community Bank celebrated Halloween with a candy corn guessing game at ‘Our School Bank,’ and it turned out to be a real “treat” for two students. The bowl was filled with 208 pieces of candy and there were two lucky winners.  Destiny Holloway won with a guess of 205 while Thomas Allison...

Christmas is arriving early all over the Blairsville area, as local churches and homes prepare to serve as collection points for Operation Christmas Child.  Soon, with the help of Blairsville volunteers, this site will be brimming with festively wrapped shoe boxes full of gifts. Through Operation...

Blairsville, GA, — Thanksgiving is just around the corner. Traditionally, this is a time to collectively give thanks. And most celebrate this holiday by gathering for a meal with family and friends. The traditional meals vary from turkey and wild rice dressing in northern U.S. and Canada to turkey...

By Jim Fitzgerald Columnist There have been elections, the House passed a health care reform bill with a public option, a Muslim Army Major committed the worst soldier-on-soldier mayhem in our history, the unemployment rate jumped to 10.2%, Wall Street continues to think it deserves outsized bonuses,...

By Claudia Parks rn Columnist When something isn’t just right we want to complain about it—especially the weather or the price of gasoline or a national health care plan or especially when an airline loses your luggage!  Often we just don’t know who to contact to get action.  Here’s your chance...

By Sen. Chip Pearson Columnist For generations, American men and women have risked their lives to defend our country on the front lines of battle.  Rather than drive to an office each day and go home to their families at night, they work in war zones where danger lurks around every corner.  Instead...

State Senator Jim Butterworth (R-Clarkesville) held a government collaboration summit with city and county leaders last week in Habersham County. The meeting served as a forum to discuss how to improve their partnership as well as the need to serve constituents with results-oriented solutions. “The...