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Church gives $1K to Soup Kitchen

News Staff
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
The Demorest Methodist Congregational Federated Church continues its quarterly campaigns to raise and distribute funds to local charities. The second quarter in 2022 is dedicated to the Cornelia Soup Kitchen. Recently, Rev.
THOMAS BLACK/Submitted

THOMAS BLACK/Submitted

Kids On Wheels event returns June 18

News Staff
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
The Kids on Wheels free event will return to Clarkesville on Saturday, June 18, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Clarkesville Police Station. There will be all kinds of fun vehicles in which kids can cruise the show, or they can bring their own set of wheels.
Community Calendar

Community Calendar

Community Calendar

News Staff
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Day of remembrance A day of remembrance will be held for Margie McCollum on Wednesday, June 8, at 2 p.m. at Clarkesville Baptist Church Fellowship Hall. Anyone making a donation to The Sharing & Caring Place will receive a raffle ticket to be entered in a drawing for one of Margie’s quilts.
Southern Seasons Inn’s “Cheese and Assorted Quackers” PHYLECIA WILSON/Submitted

Southern Seasons Inn’s “Cheese and Assorted Quackers” PHYLECIA WILSON/Submitted

Dec-A-Ducks keep taking it up a notch

News Staff
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
One of the most popular booths at the Mountain Laurel Festival on May 21 was Volunteers for Literacy’s Dec-a-Ducks. Hundreds viewed the 35 decorated ducks, marveled at the creativity, and voted for their favorite to win the People’s Choice Award.

ICAC unit nabs two more arrests

Matthew Osborne
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Two Habersham County men were arrested in the last four days through the Habersham County Sheriff’s Office’s Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task force. Deputies served search warrants Tuesday afternoon at the home of Christopher Lee Webb, 40, of Clarkesville.

Arrest Report

News Staff
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
The following is a list of names entered into the booking computer at the Habersham County Detention Center for June 1-6, 2022. Names, ages and towns are listed as they appear in the computer. Offenses listed are charges; guilt has not been proven.
Pictured (from left) are Clarkesville Principal Georgia Pitts, South Habersham Middle School Principal Daphne Penick, Level Grove Elementary Principal Dr. Susan Davis, Baldwin Principal Rodney Long, and Habersham Success Academy Principal Ernie Garrett. AMARIS E. RODRIGUEZ/Staff

Pictured (from left) are Clarkesville Principal Georgia Pitts, South Habersham Middle School Principal Daphne Penick, Level Grove Elementary Principal Dr. Susan Davis, Baldwin Principal Rodney Long, and Habersham Success Academy Principal Ernie Garrett. AMARIS E. RODRIGUEZ/Staff

Attendance winners

News Staff
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Attendance trophies were once again awarded during the Habersham County School Board of Education meeting in May. Superintendent Matthew Cooper congratulated the first place schools when it came to Elementary and Secondary school student attendance and also staff attendance.
John Cantwell, Kinetic engineering and construction manager; Michael Foor, Kinetic Georgia state operations president; Blake Fields, Kinetic field operations director; and Georgia Sen. Bo Hatchett, District 50, talk while standing next to a Kinetic surface drill rig, used to create boreholes for utility poles. GERARD HARRINGTON/Submitted

John Cantwell, Kinetic engineering and construction manager; Michael Foor, Kinetic Georgia state operations president; Blake Fields, Kinetic field operations director; and Georgia Sen. Bo Hatchett, District 50, talk while standing next to a Kinetic surface drill rig, used to create boreholes for utility poles. GERARD HARRINGTON/Submitted

Hatchett eyes Kinetic’s training operation

News Staff
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
State Sen. Bo Hatchett (R-Cornelia) visited the Kinetic Baldwin Training Facility recently to learn more about the company’s work in the county. More than 300 employees a year from Georgia, Alabama, Florida, North and South Carolina train at the facility. “It was a pleasure to welcome Sen.

Mt. Airy looking for a little help

Matthew Osborne
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
The town of Mt. Airy could use a few good men and women to work in nearly every department. Town Manager Tim Jarrell already wears at least two hats, including that of police chief, but he may need to make some more head space the way things are going. “If there’s a water issue, call me.