Thanks to Home Depot of Blairsville, the grounds of Union County Primary School have had a facelift. Last spring the management and associates of Home Depot undertook a landscaping project at the school. They spent countless hours adding mulch, new plantings, and decorative touches to the flowerb... More...
On Sunday, November 11th, a crowd gathered at the site of the future home of Bobby & Misty Thompson and their four young children. This will be Habitat for Humanity Towns/Union Counties' seventh house. It was a celebration, not only for the family, but also for all those who had made it possible. More...
Left to right: Lena Weaver, Marcia Barrett and Becky Dyer are Christmas shopping at the Union County Primary School Silent Auction. More than 100 baskets are on display for bidding through 6 p.m. this Saturday. Baskets were arranged by classroom teachers and proceeds will go to provide classroom sup... 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. More...
Use your microwave safely. The microwave oven has become a permanent fixture in the American kitchen, the office break room and many hotel/motel rooms. According to Appliance Magazine, only DVD players and digital televisions were shipped out of U.S. warehouses in greater numbers than were microwa... More...
So what's wrong with the FairTax? This proposal to substitute a national retail sales tax for almost all kinds of federal taxes has definitely energized lots of our friends and neighbors in North Georgia. More...
Mrs. Alma Inez Cochran, 83, of Wesley Mtn. Drive, Blairsville, Ga., died Sunday, Nov. 18, 2007 in the Clay County Care Center following an extended illness. Mrs. Cochran was born Sept. 13, 1924 in Sycamore, Ga., the daughter of the late Benjamin Logan and the late Mary Craig Logan. More...
John C. Campbell Folk School will kick-off the holiday season with the annual Fireside Sale Sunday, December 2, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Fifty artists will be offering handmade items such as jewelry, weavings, forged iron, photography, quilts and turned wood in the Keith House and Davidson Ha... More...
The third grade classes at Towns County Elementary got a special treat on Monday, after returning to school from their Thanksgiving Holiday break. Five classes loaded a school bus and headed down to Brasstown Valley Resort for a special day of decorating gingerbread houses with friends. More...
Chatuge Shores Golf Course in Hayesville, North Carolina hosted the annual Blue Ridge Mountain EMC Masters junior golf tournament. The event was the sixth tour stop of The Ridges Junior Golf Tour. Candace Lee with Blue Ridge Mountain EMC was on hand for the event and welcomed the players to Chatug... More...
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