The Cherokee County Board of Commissioners approved the purchase of land on Sugar Pike Road for the expansion of one of the county’s fire stations at its most recent meeting.
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A pair of runners with the Creekview Youth Cross-Country Team recently earned All-American honors for their top finishes in a USA Track and Field national event.
The Canton City Council approved a request for a conditional-use permit to build apartments and a parking deck in the Academy and Main development in downtown Canton, 115 Academy St., at it most recent meeting.
Cherokee County public school students, faculty and staff returned to in-person instruction and work in the county’s 40-plus school buildings on Monday following a two-week pause created by COVID-19 related staffing shortages.
The Canton City Council approved a request for a conditional use permit and master plan amendment to construct an 168-unit apartment complex at Prominence Point Parkway during its meeting on Thursday.
The Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce announced Adam Smith, an executive with banking company Synovus began his term as the organization’s board chairman for 2021 on Friday.
The Woodstock City Council has approved a request from Rootstock to allow for additional space to be added onto the restaurant.
The Woodstock City Council held a discussion on proposed changes to the city’s alcohol laws at its most recent meeting, although no official action was taken.
The Woodstock City Council recently took action to approve a temporary sign request from a senior living facility on Georgia Highway 92.
An Atlanta man was jailed in Cherokee County on stalking and assault charges after he allegedly followed a mother and daughter around a grocery store in Hickory Flat, touching the girl on the arm, authorities said.
At the most recent meeting of the Cherokee County Board of Commissioners, the board weighed in on an annexation case from the City of Holly Springs.
Sensing the mood in many of my friends and neighbors, we seem to be struggling with serious disappointment. When things don’t turn out the way we expected them to be or set our hopes on a certain outcome, the result is often one of disappointment. When we linger on our disappointments, we ca…
Cherokee County residents will have one final opportunity to view conceptual plans and submit feedback for new parks in the southwest area of the county at an upcoming virtual public input meeting.
Please Note: Applications are still being accepted until Jan. 29 for the 2021 UGA/Cherokee County Master Gardener volunteer training class. For details, contact the UGA/Cherokee County Extension Office at 770-721-7803 or email Josh Fuder, ANR Extension Agent, at jfuder@uga.edu. For more info…
Despite being closer to a workable solution on the matter, the Cherokee County Board of Commissioners tabled a previously discussed zoning request for property at the intersection of East Cherokee Drive and Hickory Flat Highway.
During its first meeting of the new year, the Ball Ground City Council officially approved the appointments of its mayor pro tem, as well as department heads and committee members for 2021.
♦ Register for the COVID vaccine? Sure. First your website crashed. Then your phone lines crashed. Then after redialing for an hour I get in, wait, nice person comes on the phone and says, “No, we’re sold out until February.” Okay, I’ll take a slot in February. “No, we can’t book those until…
An Alabama man has been charged with vehicular homicide and impaired driving in an August traffic crash in east Cherokee County that killed a 61-year-old woman, authorities said.
ATLANTA — Full funding of student enrollment growth after a year of budget cuts would come as a great relief to Georgia’s public schools, the state’s top K-12 education official said last Tuesday.