For 13 years, Awake America Prayer Meetings have been a staple at Blairsville City Hall. Over that time, the meetings have spread to surrounding cities and even other states while maintaining a constant presence in the heart of Program Coordinator Lydia Long’s community.
On Saturday, May 23, the Union County Board of Education held its rescheduled monthly meeting in Suches, where members discussed open records requests, raising out-of-county tuition and other business before the Woody Gap Graduation Ceremony. While not an agenda item, the most heavily discussed…
Several state races and one federal contest failed to produce majority vote winners in the May 19 General Primary Elections and will therefore be heading to Primary Runoff Elections on Tuesday, June 16. That means early voting will run next week, from Monday, June 8, through Friday, June 12.
Thanks to the hard work of Union County Sheriff’s Lt. Dustin Walker, a Kentucky man is behind bars after stealing a pair of enclosed trailers and a motorcycle from two locations off Kiutuestia Creek Road on Tuesday, May 19.
Despite rain showers Saturday morning, May 23, volunteers gathered under the pavilions at the Union County Farmers Market from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Though the Mountain Education Center’s Class of 2026 was one of the smallest in number, the graduating students were nonetheless worthy of celebration during the MEC Commencement Exercises at the Union County Fine Arts Center on Thursday, May 28. Billed as “The First Choice for A Second Chance,”…
When Robert “Bob” Kinnie entered the W.C. Nelson Terminal Building at the Blairsville Municipal Airport on May 21, he did not expect a crowd of people awaiting his arrival – all sporting the same yellow sunglasses he always wears, to boot.
Union County Sole Commissioner Harold Collins and Farmers Market Manager Dustin “The Rog” Rogers estimate that the opening weekend of the Union County Farmers Market on May 30 saw about 2,000 people come shop for a variety of homegrown produce and handmade crafts. There were plenty of greens to…
SUCHES – Lilli-May Dempsey, Ryan Marsh, Elijah Miller, Steven Mossinger and Robert Waldroup took their final walk as Woody Gap School students on Saturday, May 23, closing one chapter and beginning another during commencement exercises inside the school gymnasium. The ceremony opened with a prayer…
In his regular monthly meeting on Thursday, May 21, Union County Sole Commissioner Harold Collins held a first reading of the revised ordinance regulating the establishment of cryptocurrency and data mining facilities. Union County has had a “very strict” ordinance in place since October of 2023,…
