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The Rotary Club of Canton is beginning its new year with a new president leading the community’s most historic civic club.
Things don’t always appear as they should be. I call this the tale of two preachers: one named Billy and the other named Chuck.
Northside Hospital and Atlanta Blood Services are asking patients who have recovered from COVID-19 to donate plasma for COVID-19 treatment.
Four employees of a Woodstock sandwich shop were fired after making a noose out of bread dough and filming themselves playing with it.
The city of Ball Ground, in partnership with Cherokee County Fire and Emergency Services, has become the second location in Georgia to implement a U.S. National Grid (USNG) based Emergency Location Marker (ELM) System. Cobb County was the first to implement the system in late 2018.
Gov. Brian Kemp’s office has launched a marketing campaign for Georgia businesses to show they are keeping up good social distancing, sanitizing and masking practices amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
♦ These riots, protests and vandalizing statues and property have nothing to do with racism or BLM. They are the result of poorly taught and raised children. I hazard to say not many went to Sunday school where they would have learned respect for God, others and country. They would have lear…
More than a dozen people filled the community room of the BridgeMill fire station on June 30 for the first public interest meeting for the proposed Keep Cherokee Clean, Green and Beautiful organization.
Because of the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic, the city of Woodstock has announced that two upcoming events in the Woodstock Summer Concert Series are being postponed until the 2021 season.
Two men have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder in the June 26 shooting that killed 41-year-old JonDavid Russell Johnson near Acworth, authorities said.
Canton City Council members continued their discussion on how to fill the vacant Ward 2 seat on the council during their July 2 meeting.
ATLANTA - Rural Georgians have complained for years about the lack of broadband connectivity in their communities.
As an 8-year-old, Woodstock native Kati Gardner was determined to attend Camp Sunshine, a camp for children ages 7 to 18 who have or have had cancer.
Fury Volleyball Club, which previously called Woodstock home, will be moving to its new state of the art location at 60 Waleska St., near The Mill on Etowah, in August.
Path & Post Brokerage in Woodstock was recently ranked the No. 5 agent-owned team brokerage in Georgia and one of America’s Best as a part of the annual America’s Best Real Estate Professionals ranking report, just published by REAL Trends, Inc.
ATLANTA — With state tax collections running below expectations even before the coronavirus pandemic hit, supporters of legalized gambling in Georgia were optimistic they could finally prevail during the 2020 legislative session after years of failure.
In order to correct issues with the city’s tree ordinance, the Woodstock City Council held a first reading on a set of proposed updates to the law.
Cherokee County Fleet Management was recently awarded the Blue Seal of Excellence from the National Institute of Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) for the second straight year.
Cherokee County Fire and Emergency Services is now accepting applications for a Fire Safety Educator.
Although the City of Woodstock will not be holding its annual Independence Day parade Saturday morning, Main Street will still be a center of activity as the county Republican Party holds a 4th of July Cavalcade.
As a result of the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic, Canton has announced changes to its plans regarding Fourth of July celebrations.
Atlanta Magazine recently announced that a total of seven Cherokee County doctors received the honor of being named among the list of Atlanta’s Top Doctors in their July issue.
Most folks (gardeners included) likely hold a misconceived stereotype of palms. The image that comes to mind is probably of a parlor plant, a conservatory specimen, or a coconut palm towering over the sandy beach on a tropical island. Though many palms are native to tropical regions, some sp…
Gov. Brian Kemp is holding off on ordering a statewide mandate to wear masks in Georgia as positive cases of coronavirus and hospitalizations are on the rise.
♦ I will be so glad when our local businesses open up and we can go in and deal with people we have seen face to face for years. They are almost like family and we miss their smiling faces.
Based on the latest executive order issued by Gov. Brian Kemp Monday, the Cherokee County Senior Center’s reopening has been delayed until Monday, July 20.
The City of Woodstock officially has a budget for fiscal year 2021 after the city council approved it following a second reading at the most recent council meeting.
ATLANTA - Gov. Brian Kemp signed a $25.9 billion state budget Tuesday that he called “bittersweet” because of $2.2 billion in spending cuts brought on by the devastation the coronavirus pandemic is wreaking on Georgia’s economy.
A manufacturer of satellite broadband antennas has opened a facility in Cherokee County near the regional airport and will hire 50 workers over the next 18 months, officials said this week.
