Girl Dies In A Horrific Car Accident

A total of five vehicles got tangled in the wreckage and at least two other people suffered non life-threatening injuries...
May 17, 2007

Information Lost

The Georgia Department of Human Resources has lost the information of 140,000 babies throughtout the Georgia Area including some in Pickens County...
May 17, 2007

[ In Events ]
Book Sale

Three times per year, the Friends of the Gilmer County Library hold a book sale at the library...
May 17, 2007

[ In Government ]
Planning Commission Meeting Agenda

GILMER COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION...
May 16, 2007

Rev. Jerry Falwell Dies After Collapsing

The Rev. Jerry Falwell, the television evangelist who founded the Moral Majority and used it to mold the religious right into a political force, died Tuesday shortly after being found unconscious in his office at Liberty University. He was 73...
May 15, 2007

[ In Events ]
2007 Kaiser Permanente Corporate Run/Walk

The 2007 Kaiser Permanente Corporate Run/Walk debuts this year with the very first Captain’s Kickoff on Tuesday, May 22...
May 15, 2007

[ In Events ]
PAR SUPPLY DRIVE

The Mountain City Service Unit of Girl Scouts will be holding a Supply
Drive for Pickens Animal Rescue on Saturday May 19th at Kroger and Ingles from
11:00am - 3:00pm.  Please come down and support their efforts in helping PAR.
May 14, 2007

Free Night Give Away Sweepstakes

HometownPickens.com and Vacation Resorts International have teamed up to give away a free night in the Villas in Big Canoe....So hurry and enter drawing is May 31st...
May 11, 2007

Lights Goes Out After Midnight Tonight In Jasper

An engineer from Jasper-Ellijay Georgia Power office said a maintenance procedure ...
May 10, 2007

[ In Severe Weather ]
First Named Tropical Storm Forms Off Georgia Coast

Five-foot waves crashed by the pier and 26 mile per hour gusts whipped clouds of sand as the first named storm of 2007...
May 9, 2007

[ In Severe Weather ]
Statewide Drought Continues

Drought conditions continue to grip all of the state, including southeast Georgia where an extreme drought has fueled roaring wildfires that have scorched more than 100,000 acres.
May 9, 2007

[ In Government ]
Perdue Will Not Call Special Session

Gov. Sonny Perdue said there will be no special session of the state Legislature to iron out a dispute over the mid-year budget.
May 8, 2007

[ In Education ]
Math Dragons Win the 2007 Spring Berry College Math Contest

Congratulations to the PCMS 6th grade Math Dragons for winning the 2007 Spring Berry College Math Contest...
May 8, 2007

[ In Education ]
School Board Schedules Workshop Tuesday, May 8

The Pickens County Board of Education will conduct a workshop on Tuesday, May 8, at 4:30 p.m....
May 8, 2007

[ In Events ]
18th Annual Cherokee County Indian Festival

The South’s largest and most spectacular Native American educational and entertainment program is being held on Mother's Day weekend
May 8, 2007