Timothy McCain is airlifted from the Chattahoochee National Forest by rescuers via Black Hawk helicopter after five days in the wilderness. (Photo provided by Union County Emergency Services)

Visitors take in The Wall That Heals during a recent stop in Dahlonega on the campus of the University of North Georgia.

UNG senior Emma Chester released her first self-published novel, No Such Happily Ever Afters, on November 1.

Veteran model railroader Tom Robinson will be giving the public an opportunity to view his remarkable S gauge train layout on Saturday, November 23 during the annual Piedmont Pilgrimage open house.

LEFT: Lumpkin County Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Bill Poole has worked with community partners to bring The Wall That Heals traveling memorial to Dahlonega this week. RIGHT: Poole is pictured in Vietnam with some local allies.

Megan Carden has been selected as the 2025 Teacher of the Year representing the local school district. Carden teaches seventh grade math and coaches cheerleading at Lumpkin County Middle School.

Manager Phil Sarnowski oversees last minute Monday afternoon preparations at the long-awaited Publix on Maxwell Lane.

Senator Steve Gooch reads aloud the text of Senate Resolution 609, which codifies the legend of a Cherokee woman named Trahlyta and authorizes the DOT to erect and maintain its own signage at Stone Pile Gap.

LEFT: “Donut Dollie” Liz Mangum served the troops in Vietnam for a year as part of the American Red Cross. RIGHT: Mangum said the Red Cross always held a ribbon-cutting when a new recreation center opened, like this one for the First Air Cavalry Division in An Khê, Vietnam.

Robb Nichols, the Dahlonega-Lumpkin County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director and Lumpkin County Development Authority Director, addresses the crowd at last week’s event. He said a book by retired General Stanley McChrystal called Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World has influenced his philosophy on economic development.