• Convenience Store Owners Sentenced for Food Stamp Fraud and Identity Theft

    Convenience Store Owners Sentenced for Food Stamp Fraud AND IDENTITY THEFT ATLANTA – Jonathan and Stephanie Dupiton have been sentenced for using stolen identities to steal over $395,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).  The defendants illegally obtained SNAP benefits for themselves, and then cashed them at stores they owned […]

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  • Sen. David Lucas to Host Second Rural Georgia Study Committee Meeting

    MEDIA ADVISORY Contact: Ines Owens, Director Elisabeth Fletcher, Communications Specialist [email protected] 404.656.0028 Sen. David Lucas to Host Second Rural Georgia Study Committee Meeting ATLANTA (August 7, 2017) | Sen. David Lucas (D – Macon) will hold a two-day Rural Georgia Study Committee Meeting to discuss broadband, healthcare, telecommunications and developing tourism TOMORROW from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. and WEDNESDAY from 9 a.m. […]

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  • Georgia Public Safety Training Celebrates 30th Anniversary

          On Saturday, July, 22nd 2017, the Georgia Public Safety Training Center (GPSTC) celebrated thirty years of training those who serve and protect the citizens of every community across the great State of Georgia. The celebration was held in Forsyth at the main campus of GPSTC. It was a great day of celebrating […]

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  • Meeting the Unique Mental Health Needs of Veterans

    By Melanie Dallas, LPC The statistics were shocking. A 2014 study by the Veterans Administration (VA) found that 22 veterans were taking their own lives each day in the U.S. A follow-up study published last year found that although suicides among veterans were decreasing, there was still an average of 20 veteran suicides each day. […]

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  • Gilmer County Board of Tax Assessors- June 30, 2017 @ 10 am

    AGENDA GILMER COUNTY BOARD OF TAX ASSESSORS SPECIAL CALLED MEETING JUNE 30, 2017 MEETING TIME 10:00 A.M. ASSESSOR’S OFFICE GILMER COUNTY COURTHOUSE 1 BROAD STREET, SUITE 104, ELLIJAY, GA  CALL TO ORDER APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF JUNE 16, 2017 ADOPTION OF AGENDA NEW BUSINESS: Expenditure Budget Report – May 2017 CONSERVATION USE: New/Renew/Continuation/Release/Change of Use […]

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  • “Check It Out” at The Gilmer County Library

    This Week @ Gilmer County Library: July 5, 2017 – July 12, 2017 Heath Lee – Library Manager The 2017 Summer Reading Program doesn’t end until July 31st. This year’s theme is “Build a Better World”, and SRP participation provides great benefits to young children in the form of continued literacy awareness, social involvement, and […]

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  • GBI Seeks Help with Identifying Body Found in Banks County.

    GBI Seeks Help with Identifying Body Commerce, Georgia – The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) is seeking the public’s help in identifying human remains found near Interstate 85 in Banks County. On Sunday, February 5, 2017, a skeleton was discovered in a wooded area near New Salem Methodist Church, at 2170 Highway 59, in Commerce.  […]

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