What: Free, Confidential and Individualized Counseling Sessions When: Thursday, August 20, 10am — 4 pm (by appointment) Where: 696 First Ave, East Ellijay (Gilmer Chamber Office) The Gilmer Chamber has partnered with the University of Georgia’s Small Business Development Center (SBDC), to bring services to Gilmer County on the third Thursday of each month. Consultants will be […]
Read More »Where’s the Fear and Respect?
Where’s the Fear and Respect? Some controversy has arisen over a single presentation made at the quarterly meeting of the North Georgia Tea Party Alliance recently, that smacks of heresy and witchcraft. The “z-politics” headline stated “North Ga. Tea Party forms a plan to take over the legislature” in terms of staging a political coup […]
Read More »When We Are Bombarded
Religious column by Larry Bennett: I once heard someone say that trouble sometimes comes in bunches like bananas. I can identify with that statement. Have you ever been bombarded with back to back incidences and thought, “what else can go wrong”? In these situations, the bigger issue is not how the Lord is going to […]
Read More »Mr. Heath Matthew Stover: Obituary
Mr. Heath Matthew Stover age 31 of Chatsworth, GA died Monday July 27, 2015. Mr. Stover was born July 31, 1983 in Gilmer County. He was a Gilmer High School Graduate and a member of the River Hill Baptist Church. He worked for Kroger Grocery Store in the meat department. He is preceded in death […]
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“Check It Out” at the Gilmer Library, Week of 7/30
CHECK IT OUT! – July 30, 2015 Heath Lee, Gilmer County Library Branch Manager Book-A-Librarian Are you wondering what to read next? Or maybe you need help getting started with your e-reader. Do you need help researching a topic? Would you like a tour of the library? You might need to Book-A-Librarian. The Book-A-Librarian service […]
Read More »Is The GOP Leadership Really Corrupt?
Opinion article by George McClellan: Of course it is! Mitch McConnell (R Ky), Senate Majority leader and Harry Reid clone, has confirmed Ted Cruz to be correct in his public assessment that the Majority Leader did indeed lie to the GOP Senators in caucus about the Import-Export Bank bill and is therefore unworthy of further […]
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Mr. Nolan Larkin Miller: Obituary
Mr. Nolan Larkin Miller, age 71 of Canton, GA, formerly of Ellijay, GA passed Saturday morning, July 25th, 2015 at Embracing Hospice in Cumming, GA. Mr. Miller was born on February 4th, 1944 in Cherrylog, GA to his late parents Lake Robert and Bessie Rogers Miller. He retired from IBM as a data processor. Nolan […]
Read More »Mrs. Catherine Reece Taylor: Obituary
Mrs. Catherine Reece Taylor, age 87, of Arden, NC, died Friday July 24, 2015. Mrs. Taylor was born August 29, 1927 in Gilmer County Ga the daughter of the late Arthur and Dester Burrell Reece. She graduated from Gilmer High School, North Georgia College and was a member of the Biltmore Baptist Church in Asheville, […]
Read More »The Unbearable Cost of Illegal Immigration
Opinion by George McClellan: Trump, God bless him, has opened the festering wound of failed Progressive policies afflicting America. GOP take note. Because Trump has shown you the way It is now okay to talk about illegal immigration and its odious fallout, the sanctuary city program, in actual terms of their dysfunction without feeling the […]
Read More »Planned Parenthood, a Progressive Lie
Opinion article written by George McClellan: RedState today (7/23/15) had an excellent article on the horrors of murdering babies for body parts but couched in terms that only Progressives and PETA would love, never mentioning human babies at all but describing the odious procedures as anti-animal, animal cruelty & etc. Recall a few years ago […]
Read More »Senator David Perdue Calls On Senate To Reject Iran Deal
“Let’s give the world the option—we’ve stood alone before. Do you want to do business with Iran or with the United States?” WASHINGTON, D.C. –U.S. Senator David Perdue (R-GA) today spoke on the Senate floor about the Obama Administration’s Iran nuclear agreement and urged his colleagues to reject the deal. Senator Perdue also encouraged his colleagues […]
Read More »Ellijay City Council Special Called Meeting Announcement and Agenda
SPECIAL CALLED MEETING ELLIJAY CITY HALL, JULY 27, 2015 8:45 a.m. Agenda: Call to Order Executive Session – Land Acquisition Adjourn
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