Union County Sole Commissioner Harold Collins debuted the new county meeting venue and time on Thursday, July 16, hosting his monthly business at the Sports Center instead of the courthouse, and at 9:30 a.m. instead of 6 p.m.
Last week, the Tennessee Valley Authority provided the North Georgia News with a minor update to the lake drawdown start schedule to undertake necessary spillway repairs at the neighboring Chatuge Dam. In September 2025, TVA said that work at the spillway would not begin before late 2027, with…
Thanks to regular rain this summer, drought conditions in North Georgia have improved from an extended “extreme drought” classification this spring to a lower level of “severe drought” as of June 24, per the National Integrated Drought Information System. But even though the skies have been opening…
In a called meeting on Wednesday, July 1, the Blairsville City Council adopted a moratorium that temporarily pauses the acceptance of applications to develop data centers inside city limits. No one has approached the city about building a data center to date, but Blairsville currently has no…
HIAWASSEE – During lunchtime on Thursday, July 2, suspended Towns County Sheriff Ken Henderson turned himself in for booking at the Towns County Jail on brand new felony charges brought by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. He was released shortly afterward on a $30,000 bond.
In his June 18 regular meeting, Union County Sole Commissioner Harold Collins once again adopted a resolution approving a Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax Intergovernmental Agreement with the City of Blairsville regarding disbursement of SPLOST collections. The agreement is in reference to…
The General Primary Runoff Elections from June 16 are in the books, meaning ballots can now be set for the upcoming General Election on Tuesday, Nov. 3.
On Thursday, June 11, the Union County Commissioner’s Office welcomed more than 400 people to the Multipurpose Gym at the Sports Center for a public hearing on revisions to the local ordinance regarding “data centers.” It was the largest county meeting anyone could remember and lasted about 2.5…
A Blairsville man lost his life last week in a drowning accident on the North Carolina side of Lake Chatuge. Michael Pickelsimer was 41 years old.
Local narcotics investigators have upended a major prison drug trafficking operation, resulting in more than 2 pounds of meth, 4.5 pounds of marijuana, 7 pounds of tobacco and other contraband being confiscated from a single inmate housed over 100 miles away at Hays State Prison. The ongoing…
