As Halloween rolled through the mountains again, Blairsville’s annual Boo Bash returned to Meeks Park more frightful than ever with some notable new additions for the thousands of guests who attended. The event was so successful that folks found space beside the parking lots to leave their vehicles…
To connect with the community, the Byron Herbert Reece Farm held the very first Boo Barn Oct. 24-25, inviting big and small ghouls and goblins to enjoy two evenings of spooky fun on the namesake farmer-poet’s historic homestead.
The former owner of a now-defunct Christian nonprofit for troubled youth has been re-indicted on over two dozen additional counts of cruelty to children in the first degree, bringing her total number of felony charges to 40, per court documents. Christine “Christy” Marie Owen, 56, was arrested by…
Early voting has entered its second week for the Special General Election set for Nov. 4.
Union County Sole Commissioner Harold Collins began his Oct. 16 regular county meeting in the courthouse with a proclamation designating Oct.
The last weekend of the Sorghum in the Mountains Festival wrapped up over Oct. 18 and 19.
Union County Middle School was unstoppable from start to finish this season, finishing 8-0 and punctuating its dominance with a second win over White County – a 37-0 blowout in last Wednesday’s Mountain League Championship at Mike Colwell Memorial Stadium. The Panthers, who didn’t allow a touchdown…
The Union County Board of Education enacted a small property tax cut in a called meeting on Thursday, Oct. 9, with the adoption of a 2025 millage rate that is lower than the calculated rollback.
On Wednesday, Oct. 8, a Union County grand jury indicted former Towns County Sheriff’s Deputy Austin Bradburn for multiple crimes related to the incident in which he received two gunshot wounds to his leg on the side of Plottown Road in Young Harris on Dec.
