HEADLINES IN THIS WEEK'S EDITION

• Library construction is quickly progressing

Lumpkin County Tax Commissioner Rachel Pruitt’s mind is already made up. Her name will not appear on next year’s ballot.

Robin Black has been sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after she publicly confessed to the felony murder of her husband Larry Black in a crowded courtroom last Friday morni

The Blue Ridge Archaeology Guild meeting August 14 will host two speakers on very different topics.

HEADLINES IN THIS WEEK'S EDITION

• Sunday morning alcohol to be on ballot

Sheriff Stacy Jarrard was officially sworn in as the new president for the Georgia Sheriffs' Association late last month. And he soon realized, the clock is ticking.

The once empty hospital building on the hill has been bustling the past three weeks.

HEADLINES IN THIS WEEK'S EDITION

Teachers at Lumpkin County’s elementary schools are busy decorating doorways and placing names on cubbies while also preparing lesson plans.

Lumpkin’s Magistrate Court is one of 31 municipal offices across the state of Georgia to be hit with a vicious ransomware attack.