This Week @ Gilmer County Library: December 14, 2015 – December 19, 2015 Heath Lee – Library Manager GCL will be closed from 12/23/15 ~ 12/26/15 for the Christmas Holidays. Child Programs Tween Book Club Movie Monday, December, 14 @ 5:00 PM The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe. Read the book then come watch […]
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How Do You Know God Isn’t Fixing This?
Opinion written by John Tutten: The scurrilous attack in San Bernardino this week brought the ever widening cultural divide in this country into sharp relief. Seeing how the mainstream media and our political punditry processed the events, made clear beyond any argument that America is in deep, deep trouble. As I watched the events unfold, […]
Read More »Mr. John Howard “Sarge” Bramlett, Sr. : Obituary
Mr. John Howard “Sarge” Bramlett, Sr., age 82 of Talking Rock, Georgia passed on Saturday, December 5th, 2015, at the Piedmont Mountainside Hospital in Jasper. Born May 14th, 1933 in Ellijay, Georgia, he was the son of the late Robert Bramlett and the late Etta Wright Bramlett. Mr. Bramlett was a member of the Flat […]
Read More »Mr. Homer Clay Holloway: Obituary
Mr. Homer Clay Holloway age 98 of Ellijay, GA died Saturday December 5, 2015. Mr. Holloway was born March 15, 1917 in Gilmer County to the late George and Mary Oliver Holloway. He was a member of the Ellijay Church of Christ and Civilian Conservation Corp. He is preceded in death by his parents; his […]
Read More »Ms. Ruby Reed: Obituary
Ms. Ruby Reed age 68 of Ellijay, GA died Saturday December 5, 2015. Ms. Reed was born March 26, 1947 in Cherokee County to the late Lewis and Nellie Popham Reed. She was of the Baptist Faith. She is preceded in death by her parents and her brother in-law, Boyd Goode. Survivors Include: sister, Martha […]
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Opinion written by Ed Huber: For years I believed that Darwin’s “Theory of Evolution” was a hoax, but after watching the news lately I’m having second thoughts. Maybe he was right or, partially right. He believed man evolved from apes, but I now believe man evolved from Jellyfish. Scientists tell us that Jellyfish have survived […]
Read More »Warning, They Are Out To Get Us!
Opinion written by George McClellan: Do you need another reason to be very cautious about your friendly Islamic next door neighbor, the one with a swimming pool and a job, or a nice car and a family? Syed Rizwan Farook and his charming wife Tashfeen Malik, a pair of Islamic murders in San Bernardino, Ca. […]
Read More »Can You Make a Difference?
Opinion written by George McClellan: I feel great remorse and abject pity for that poor woman in Redlands, Ca., neighbor of the Muslim ISIS Jihadists murders, husband and wife, who knows deep down in her heart she should have said something to the authorities about her observations of the goings on in her neighbors house […]
Read More »Ellijay Police Department Officers Recognized for Service
News release from Chief Edward Lacey Ellijay, Gilmer County, Ga. December 3, 2015 EPD Awards and Recognition Reception The Ellijay Police Department is proud to announce awards received by officers for performance, certification, and training during 2015. Officers and their families gathered in the community room at the United Community Bank in Ellijay for the Ellijay […]
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CCMS Wrestling Results
CCMS – Wrestling Tue, December 1, 4:30pm – 7:00pm, Blairsville, Union County. We were pleased with results tonight. Not just in terms of the team scores, but some of our kids wrestled more focused and intense. We had one match in particular that turned in our favor from the last time we wrestled Fannin at 102. […]
Read More »The Face of Jihad
Opinion by George McClellan: San Bernardino, Ca. is my home town. I was born there, started my family there and left there in 1972 on my life of travel and adventure never to return except to bury my Dad and Mom in turn. While shocking, what happened there this week does not surprise me because […]
Read More »Planning Commission & Board of Land Use Appeals Meeting Announcement and Agenda
GILMER COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION & GILMER COUNTY BOARD OF LAND USE APPEALS Regular Meeting Thursday, December 17th, 2015 @ 5:00 P.M., EDT Gilmer County Board of Commissioners Conference Room AGENDA Call to Order – Alan Davenport, Chairman Invocation and Pledge Approval of Regular Monthly and Public Hearing Minutes Approval of Agenda – Additions or Deletions Old […]
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Mr. Roy F. “Cricket” Woods: Obituary
Mr. Roy F. “Cricket” Woods, age 66, of Miramar Beach, FL, died Monday November 30, 2015. Mr. Woods was born March 25, 1949 in Gilmer County the son of the late George and Jo Hazel Coffey Wood. Mr. Wood was a retired salesman and at the time of his death was a condo manager. Survivors […]
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