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HIAWASSEE – People from across the mountains and beyond celebrated the arrival of the New Year at the Georgia Mountain Fairgrounds, with free music and beautiful fireworks helping hundreds of families to ring in 2025 with the best view around the night of Dec. 31.

A room full of Union Countians witnessed the end of an era the evening of Thursday, Dec. 19, when Lamar Paris held his last regular meeting as sole commissioner, inside the Union County Courthouse.

More than a dozen descendants of the Rev. Charles E.