The Blairsville Scottish Festival and Highland Games (BSFHG) once again boasted strong attendance, as the fourth annual event drew roughly 6,000 people, according to preliminary estimates. "Overall I think this was probably the best games we have had," event organizer Jim McAfee said. "We had mor... More...
A routine landing at the Blairsville Municipal Airport went awry, when an aircraft skidded off the east end of the runway and into a dirt berm. The pilot, Steven M. Kantor, 53, of Plantation, FL, was the only occupant in the plane. He was not injured in the incident. More...
Mountain Area Christian Academy, educating students prekindergarten through twelfth grade since its' establishment in 2000, is expanding its enrollment to offer a preschool program for two, three, and four year olds. "There are very few preschools in the area," MACA Principal Steven Clagg said. More...
Narcotics Anonymous Mountain Folks Group meets every Friday night at 8:00 p.m. at New Hope Fellowship Church, 1299 Old Blue Ridge Hwy., next to Byers Well Drilling and on Tuesday Night at 7 p.m. at the New Hope Treatment Facility. All are welcome- don't lose hope because we can help. For inform... More...
On Saturday, June 9, I attended the fourth annual meeting of the Byron Herbert Reece Society in Young Harris. As attendees were visiting in the lobby of the Goolsby Center after registration and prior to beginning of the meeting in the Wilson Lecture Hall, a fine citizen of Union County commented ... More...
I was driving down the road the other day and there was a car in front of me with about 4 or 5 people in it. They were having fun and talking and not doing the speed limit. That of course irritated me. At least they could do the speed limit. Then suddenly a cigarette butt came flying out the windo... More...
Mr. George Allen Brown, 46, of Mineral Bluff, Georgia, passed away Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at Fannin Regional Hospital in Blue Ridge, Georgia. Mr. Brown was born in Rochester, New York, to Carl Robert Brown and Patricia Ann Stoddard Brown. Mr. Brown had lived in the North Georgia Mountains for th... More...
Every place in the world has a share of Nature's abundance and beauty. No locale is more blessed with Nature's largesse than the Mountains of North Georgia. People who admire this beauty and seek to better understand both the whole and the individual components of this beauty are called naturalist... More...
Scottish Highland Games date back to 1057, when they were used as a means of improving the military. As each year goes by and the interest in the Blairsville Scottish Festival grows, so does the level of participation and caliber of competition in the athletic portion of Union County's own games. More...
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