Sakes Alive! A Holy Smoke BBQ

Professional BBQers will dish out their specialty Saturday at Walhalla’s St. John’s Lutheran Church.  Tickets, at $12 dollars, are available at the door or may in advance at the W. Main Street church.  Plates will be sold 11 am to 2 pm Saturday, but all ticketed plates must be picked up by 12:30.  Barbara Wilson of St. John’s says a […]

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Pilot’s body remains in wreckage

Federal investigators at Lake Hartwell are in need of the type of equipment that can pull airplane wreckage high enough out of the trees so divers can get to the doors to the plane and remove the body of the pilot.  Georgia-Carolina radio stations in Toccoa and Lavonia quote the Hart County sheriff as saying the family of the pilot […]

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A lone name on the November ballot

The name of Westminster resident Anna “Ruth” May shall appear on the November ballot as the candidate to fill the unexpired term of the late councilman Yousef Mefleh.  Kristi Burr, the county’s director of elections, says May was the only resident of her city to qualify during a candidate opportunity period that ended yesterday at the noon hour.  May’s name […]

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Pickens jail guard arrested amid state police investigation

A jail guard has lost his job in Pickens County, after his employer received word of a possible, inappropriate relationship involving a female inmate.  Pickens County Sheriff’s Office announces the dismissal of guard Chester Pierce Ouzts a few weeks after the sheriff’s office referred the investigation to the state police.  According to “SLED”, Ouzts is charged with misconduct in office […]

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Election complaints investigated in Stephens County, Georgia

The Georgia Board of Elections has released findings in an investigation of complaints involving the county elections’ office at Toccoa, Georgia.  According to Toccoa Radio WNEG, there were seven complaints.  In five of them, sufficient evidence is said to provide violations occurred – including the failure to have entered all 2020 early voter data into Election Net; and the local […]

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