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Mayor Barrie Aycock's last Clarkesville City Council meeting

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Mayor Barrie Aycock's last Clarkesville City Council meeting was Dec. 8, 2025. Aycock was elected to the Clarkesville City Council in 2013, with her term starting in January 2014. She resigned in January 2016 to run for mayor in a special election, and began her term as mayor in March 2016.

Honoring Veterans

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Music sharing the realities of war rang through the Sautee Nacoochee Center’s Community Room Saturday morning as the Tomochichi Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution welcomed veterans to its monthly meeting.

Retired Army Lt. Col. James Corbin was asked to share his experience as an Iraq combat veteran to those in attendance, but he did so in the best way for him — through music.

Bear wanders through a Cornelia backyard

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This bear decided to take an evening stroll through a Cornelia backyard Tuesday evening, checking out birdfeeders and briefly considering a dip in the pool. The Northeast Georgian thanks Dr. Emma HochgesangNoffsinger for sharing the video.

Erik Jordan reads his award-winning poem

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Woodville Elementary student Erik Jordan won a state championship in the Young Authors competition for the fourth grade. He read his poem to the Habersham County Board of Education on Monday night.

Funds raised for women in need of mammograms

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As a firefighter/paramedic, Angela Turk is used to going above and beyond to help others. So after she recovered from stage 3 cancer, which she was diagnosed with at the age of 38 in 2009, she got right back to work for the good of others. Her perseverance has now led her to raise funds to enable at-risk and underserved women to have access to lifesaving mammogram screenings for a second year in a row.

 

Raiders get a sendoff on the way to the playoffs

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   Habersham Central left town to take on Rome in the state playoffs around noon today with a community sendoff.

   Come back to TheNortheastGeorgian.com tonight to find out how the Raiders did.