Georgia Senate Majority Leader Steve Gooch explains a proposed statewide constitutional amendment that would cap future property tax assessment increases.
Early voting is underway at the Lumpkin County Elections Office at 56 Short Street. The last day of early voting will be Friday, November 1 before election day on Tuesday, November 5 at Parks & Rec.
LEFT: Retired U.S. Army Colonel Hal Williams is pictured outside of the historic Holly Theater, where he served as an original board member. RIGHT: A page from Williams’ journal, titled “Memory of South Vietnam,” depicts the charismatic officer interacting with the local population.
Sheriff Stacy Jarrard and volunteer relief organizer Donald Hupp are pictured in front of their second hurricane supply trailer last Thursday. By Monday, the same trailer was completely filled and headed for a church in Asheville, North Carolina.
Local author Tim Drake is a member of the National World War II Museum, the 8th Air Force Historical Society, the Military Writers Society of America and the Atlanta WWII History Roundtable. He has self-published four books.
Georgia Safe Routes to School program coordinator Nick Anderson, second from right, discusses the details of the upcoming LCMS Walking School Bus event with, from left, Transportation Director Lynn White, LCMS Principal Libbie Armstrong, Chief Operations Officer Greg Trammell and Cottrell Elementary School Principal Stacie Gerrells. More Safe Route events, like an elementary school bike rodeo, are in the works for later in the school year.
The murder suspects of The Mystery of Edwin Drood line up for the audience to vote on their fate. Pictured, from left, are Hunter Mauldin, Kim Norton, Haze Ray, Taylor Jarrard, Drew Ferguson, Adam Jarrard and Tristan Carroll.
Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office
Local officials assembled in the bottom level of the downtown fire station last Thursday as they planned and prepared for the wind and rains of Hurricane Helene.
Pictured at the site of the future NOA shelter are (from left) Shelter Campaign Chair Tracy Unger, County Commissioner Tucker Greene, President Emeritus Chip Vaughan, NOA Executive Director Cara Ledford and NOA Board Chair Joanie Cullity.
