Around midnight on Saturday, April 12, the Georgia State Patrol pulled over a Fannin County driver at the Circle K convenience store on Cleveland Street in Blairsville. It just so happened that the man behind the wheel, David Franklin Morgan, was also the subject of an extensive drug investigation…
ASHEVILLE, N.C. – On Tuesday, April 8, a federal jury returned a guilty verdict against Stephanie Miranda Neace, 32, of Blairsville, Georgia, for the 2023 kidnapping and robbery of an elderly victim, said U.S.
The Union County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Blairsville man last week for allegedly downloading sexually explicit images of prepubescent children. UCSO Sgt.
The Blairsville City Council and Mayor Buddy Moore discussed a variety of business in their regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, April 8, including an update to the city sign ordinance Moore described as fixing a couple “oversights.” First, Blairsville-Union County Chamber of Commerce President…
Part-time Young Harris resident Brian O’Malley will attempt to climb to the top of the world this May when he returns to Mount Everest, the highest mountain above sea level in the world. He actually turned 61 near Mount Everest last month during a trip to test himself and prepare for the great…
The Union County Recreation Department has a record 16,000 candy-filled eggs ready to set out for the annual Easter Egg Hunt, this year on Saturday, April 12, starting at 10 a.m. inside the usual Meeks Park hunting grounds.
A Blairsville woman recently avoided being scammed out of $14,000 in savings by applying common sense after being called by a man impersonating a fraud investigator with a local bank. The scammer, a man with an Indian accent claiming to be “Robert Gonzalez” of United Community Bank, contacted the…
A scammer has learned the hard way that the elderly are provided special protections in the law following a weeklong trial that started with jury selection on Monday, March 31, and ended with a guilty verdict and prison sentence on Friday, April 4, inside the Union County Courthouse. Milan…
Last week, a Union County man was just about to put the tag on a brand-new X-PRO 125cc motorcycle he had not even driven yet when he realized it had been stolen from his residence on Jones Creek Road. As it turned out, the property owner had actually recorded the theft on a security camera…
A change in the form of county government from a sole commissioner to a multimember commission board may be in Union County’s future, but there are several steps in that process, and District 8 State Rep. Stan Gunter first wants to gauge people’s appetite for such a change.
