Roadside trash on radar with ‘Team Up to Clean Up’

Raises "not fiscally responsible" at this time, say city officials

An entire shift of Jasper firefighters called in sick Saturday the week after a tense situation over pay, and discussion about a raise employees believed they would receive but did not. No one would confirm the mass call-out was because employees were disgruntled but an anonymous source who works with the department said morale has never been lower, and that firefighters feel undervalued and underpaid.

Libel suit here revolves around Capitol riot allegations

One side claims they have been defamed and subject to “irrational,” unending harassment on Facebook. The other says Georgians have the right to be “snippy” in political banter online.

For anyone who looks at local Facebook groups, the names will be familiar, Bill, Thelma and Katie Cagle are the plaintiffs and Rayven Goolsby, who goes by Rayven Michele on Facebook, is the defendant in a case now in Pickens Superior Court. 

The story went national when The Washington Post over the weekend referred to them as a prominent family versus a grocery store clerk.

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     Rotarians and Headstart staff are unloading 100 boxes of free USDA government food for Headstart families.  Ten other Pickens non-profits received the 35 pound food box.  Amicalola EMC transported the perishable fresh food.

By Jasper Rotary

     The Rotary Club of Jasper took advantage of the USDA Farm to Families Program to receive and distribute six loads of 550 free food boxes to area non-profits totaling 74,043 meals. The 35-40 food pound boxes contained milk, eggs, produce, cheese, meat and various vegetables.

Rotary District 6910 had a Feed 1 Million Food Challenge and asked clubs to signup if they wanted to participate.  Max Caylor, club president,  said, “If we can help our residents with free food we are going to get all we can for them.”   

     Remember, the waters are still cold, so move slowly, give the critters lots of colors to choose from and you will find out why Georgia has a 35 daily limit on crappie.

Be a Perch Jerker

By O'Neill Williams

It’s warming up fast and the Crappie are biting. Up the rivers at West Point, Sinclair, Oconee, Lanier, Allatoona and Southern lakes and reservoirs across the entire South all the way into Texas, the time is right for you to get in gear and round up the tastiest little fish in Southern waters.  Well, maybe a Walleye is better, but not by much.  Anyway, there are lots more crappie available than Walleye.  

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