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Help Tater Patch Find a home

The Tater Patch Players have found a building for a much-needed permanent theatre, but they need your help rounding up $25,000 for the down payment. See page 13A to see where to send your donation.



4-H Livestock Show a squealer!

Pickens 4-H'ers spent the last four months tending to market hogs and breeding ewes for the winter show season. See page 9A for photos of the most recent event.


Top Stories
  • PHS teacher arrested for sexual contact with student
  • School Board meets Thursday -- agenda
  • For Pickens School, March 12 in-service day now snow makeup date
  • Latest unemployment rises to 11.6 percent in North Georgia area
  • Multi-person legislation expected to be introduced to Gen. Assembly
  • Modern hawk hunting keeps falconry soaring in North Georgia
  • NEW FEATURE - 'Unshelved: Book reviews for the high-minded, the low-minded and everyone in between.' This week we examine 'The Help'
  • Easter egg hunt preparations now underway
  • Swining with Jasper's Allen Christopher Ensemble
  • From the pen of Ben McCollum: A personal account of a Civil War killing
  • Gas prices in Georgia rise, but not as much as national average
  • City flag finalists announced, and other news from the Jasper council meeting



Stories in Print Edition Only
  • 100-year-old Pickens native tells all. See front page for Pearl Hammontree's take on the last century.
  • Talking Rock council approves funding road repaving. See page 7A for details.

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Recent Stories
  • Local author writes fly fishing guidebook
  • Amicalola EMC sued over easement policy
  • Ga. unemployment crisis deepening, says state labor commissioner
  • County will likely have to borrow to make up shortfall in tax collections
  • Nathan Deal resigns from Congress to run full-time for governor
  • Man drowns after wandering from car wreck
  • Bomb Hoax at JMS leads to evacuation
  • Gas prices rise in Georgia; up 76 cents per gallon from same time last year
  • Get money for rent, utilities and down payment assistance
  • Impassioned public turns out to hear about commission alternatives
  • Pickens' economic front: Three new firms say there are silver linings
  • Special Education department under fire following court ruling
  • County business licenses show steady decline
  • Andrew Haygood wins county spelling bee --- again
  • County completes purchase of building for fire station
  • Drug Task Force commander schools teachers and parents
  • Holy Spirit Ranch faces foreclosure
  • Pickens Tea Party is Up and Moving
  • Family rallies to give one of their own peace of mind following cancer diagnosis
  • Mental evaluation ordered on man charged with killing mother
  • $5.3 million in property taxes still uncollected
  • Democrat enters race for 9th District Congress
  • From the Downtown Development Authority meeting: Economic times slip from bad to worse
  • Longtime County Agent Rick Jasperse enters run for state house
  • Click here to view multi-person commission draft legislation for the 2010 election
  • New website tracking North Ga. politics

Community Interest Stories
  • Local man debuts Civil War novel set in Pickens County
  • Signing On, Jasper: All-handicapped operated radio station in Jasper gives a voice to the disabled
  • Hans Rueffert takes over Woodbridge Inn after parents hang up the apron
  • North Georgia project holds rich promise for last golden warblers
  • Cherokee storyteller Freeman Owle captivates Reinhardt College audience
  • Lives being transformed in weight loss, nutrition program
  • Organic living in the modern age, without the trendy pretension
  • Weaving tragedy and humor - Georgia author of the year Ray Atkins discusses second novel
  • What happened to marble jobs here?
  • New website tracking North Ga. politics
  • An Appalachian Voice on Edward Townsend (1789-1860) Part II
  • Run-down Armadillo found near Talking Rock
  • Slow food movement picking up speed
  • Confederate grave marked at Bethesda Church in Nelson
  • County property inventory
  • New website recognizes Pickens Veterans
  • The ‘Sacred Harp’ tradition of singing: Still alive and well
  • Taking the banjo back to the pre-recording days
  • Scam ad in Progress turned over to GBI - Fraud fastest growing, hardest to solve crime

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