June 20, 2013
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A early evening storm didn’t deter county residents from gathering to line up to advocate for county-funded programs under consideration for elimination in the Fiscal Year 2013-14 budget.
The seco...
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Linda Robertson, left, and Brenda Powell, both of Gainesville, listen to Harold Kennedy, who with his wife Joni, own Melon Head Farm in Clarkesville. Kennedy described the various types of produce grown and emphasized crop rotation to organically control insect problems. He grows thousands of cantaloupes and watermelons annually, which he markets locally and regionally, hence the “melon head” name.
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Farm tour emphasizes sustainable, chemical-free agriculture techniques
PICKETT
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A tight county budget, which could include cutting the county transit program and closing the pools at the Ruby C. Fulbright Aquatic Center, has prompted suggestions commissioners instead consider ...
Molly Mitchell, 7
“He plays games with me.”
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The Northeast Georgian asked children who attend the summer programs at Little Dreamers Academy in Cornelia what they liked best about their father. We hope you enjoy their responses just in time f...
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Shown during the 1955-56 school year is the Cornelia Regional Colored School at 595 Elrod St. The picture was taken from the school’s first yearbook and the tall man in the center was the school’s first principal, says Audrey Rosser Milo, whose father was principal during the school’s last eight years. The school will be open from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. June 17-21 for the public to see a display of black history in the region, and to see the school itself, which is one of the remaining “equalization schools” in the area.
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Next week, life will be “breathed into” a building of historic significance to Habersham and surrounding counties, when the Cornelia Regional Colored School building on Elrod Street opens to the pu...
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Taken earlier this week, this photo shows trash and a severely eroded stream bank at a little unnamed creek in Clarkesville behind the Porter-York House, across from Sam Pitts Park. The city of Clarkesville and Duncan Hughes, Soque River Watershed Association watershed coordinator, are looking into the problem, which Hughes believes is caused by storm water. Awaiting EPD approval, they are also investigating whether some old and capped off pipes might belong to the city. Hughes says the little creek is a tributary of the Soque River.
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Hidden deep in Clarkesville is a little unnamed creek. That creek, located behind the Porter-York House on Bridge Street, and across from Sam Pitts Park, flows into the Soque River and is part of i...
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Editorial staff from The Northeast Georgian display awards received Friday at the Georgia Press Association awards banquet held in Jekyll Island. From left, are Jesse Sutton, summer intern; Christina Santee, staff writer; Kimberly Brown, staff writer, Alan NeSmith, publisher; Treva Bennett, copy editor; Mark Turner, sports editor, E. Lane Gresham, editor; and Donald Fraser, senior staff writer.
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Also recognized by Community Newspapers Inc.
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Pictured, Roger Lee Harrelson Jr., brother of Milton Owen Harrelson, assists other personnel in retrieving his brother’s 1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee Monday after it was swept away in rushing flood waters at “the dip” on Wilson Road in Mt. Airy Sunday night, June 9.
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A family of three is now recuperating after a Sunday night scare.
Clarkesville residents Milton Owen Harrelson, 23, Natasha Amber Cook, 19, and their 11-month-old daughter, Kathryn, were traveling ...
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During the first lap of the 2013 Relay for Life of Habersham County, members of team “Jeanette’s Girls” hold high a banner honoring the late Molli Roach, 22, who lost her battle with cancer in April. Pictured, from left, are Janice Justus, Wanda Baynard and Sharon Roach, mother of Molli Roach.
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Grief for loved ones lost and hope for those still fighting fueled a collective act of love Friday.
According to Cameron Lopez, Habersham County Relay for Life committee chairwoman, more than 300 p...
GOSS
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The Habersham County Board of Education approved three personnel changes after a 30-minute called meeting held Wednesday.
Board members accepted the resignation of Amy Hood as athletic director (s...
DONALD FRASER/Staff
The county’s new judicial center will be “substanially” completed by mid-July, said Kip Stokes, a Pond & Co. vice president, the county’s Atlanta-based construction management representative. However, rain has pushed final completion to mid-August.
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A combination of rock and rain has contributed to a delay in construction completion of the county’s new judicial center.
During site grading in July 2012 on the 12-acre Llewellyn Street site in Cl...
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Cameraman Jose Manuel, left, records the conversation of Jonathan Santos of North Carolina, Dream Weaver Carla Kittell, Kenya Williams of Michigan (standing), Marissa Ericson of New York and Dream Weaver Wanda Kilgore, at the Habersham County home of Avita Community Partners Resource Specialist Denise Eller.
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“Synchronicity” is a good word to describe how a German filmmaker, Arnd Wächter, his crew and a group of six young people from all over the U.S. wound up on a farm off a gravel road in northern Hab...
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The nine-banded armadillo has made its way into Northeast Georgia.
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North Georgia is experiencing the migration of an armed mammal species.
Armadillos, a Spanish word meaning “little armored one,” are expanding into various parts of the United States, including Nor...
CHRISTINA SANTEE/Staff
No. 2 Wesley Davidson, of Habersham County Fire Department Station 9 (Deep Creek), maneuvers through Deputy Zach Oxner, of the Habersham County Sheriff’s Office, left, and Habersham County Sheriff Joey Terrell during the “Battle of the Heroes” flag football game, benefitting the Easton Singleton Foundation, at Raider Stadium, June 1. Also pictured, are Sgt. Wesley Littlejohn, HCSO; Deputy Graham Arrowood, HCSO K-9 unit; Capt. Les Hendrix, HCSO; Cody Williams, HCFD; Chief Deputy Greg Bowen, HCSO; and Sgt. Anthony Giaquinta, HCSO K-9. See thenortheastgeorgian.com for more photos.
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Police personnel got hosed Saturday.
In the inaugural “Battle of the Heroes” flag football game, organized to benefit the Easton Singleton Foundation, personnel from the Habersham County Sheriff’s ...
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The Northeast Georgian newsroom has grown by one.
Jesse A. Sutton, 21, of Buford, began interning at The Northeast Georgian May 8, hopeful to gain experience working in the field before finishing o...
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Teachers at Baldwin Elementary School challenged students to improve CRCT test scores, promising the incentive of bouncy houses if they could reach the goal. BES had the largest CRCT gains of all county schools. Shown, Juan Diego Martinez, a third grader, leaps into a celebration held May 22.
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This week, Habersham County Schools received good news: release of preliminary Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (CRCT) data shows gains for most schools in most subjects.
Subjects assessed on ...
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Sisters Bonnie Loggins, 93, left, and Mary Lomax, 86, sing “True Blue Bill,” a song featured in “The Mary Lomax Ballad Book: America’s Great 21st Century Traditional Singer” by Art Rosenbaum. The sisters learned the songs from their father during their childhood in the Mud Creek area of Habersham County. The book will be released June 15.
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For more than 75 years, Mary Lomax, 86, and Bonnie Loggins, 93, carried a musical legacy that remained undiscovered.
Their singing of century-old ballads was uncovered accidentally, but led to the ...
DONALD FRASER/Staff
At a May 28 ribbon cutting which formally opened a new soccer field for public use were, front row, Sydney Coffee and Hayden Dean; back row, Cornelia City Manager Donald Anderson, Gary “Tiny” Worley, Cornelia City Commissioners Ernie Garrett and Don Bagwell, Mayor James C. “J.C.” Irby and Michael Harvey with WCON.
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The city of Cornelia, in association with the Habersham County Board of Education, has opened a public-use soccer field at the former Cornelia Elementary School on Elrod Street.
The school system ...
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Losing a loved one is always hard, but losing a loved one to suicide cau...
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For the second year, Habersham County United Methodist churches have con...
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