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Revenue is down this year for the Banks County Health Department. District 2 Public Health Director Dr. David N. Westfall told Banks County Health Board members on Tuesday, Dec. 9, that total revenues for the health department are down around $7,000. “We are financially stable,” he said. “We are not looking at any layoffs here.” This is ... [Full Story »] 

During the late spring of 1998 I set about the task of deciding who I was going to vote for in the primary for Lt. Governor. With an open race that year, numerous candidates were set to be on the ballot in both the Democrat and Republican races. After reading numerous newspapers articles on each of the candidates who had signed their name on ... [Full Story »] 

The Banks County Board of Commissioners is moving forward with plans to purchase 250,000 gallons of water per day from the City of Toccoa. The BOC has received a proposed 15-year contract from the city for the water purchase. At a meeting Tuesday night, the BOC agreed for administrative assistant Angela Shepherd to meet with Toccoa officials to ... [Full Story »] 

The Banks County Board of Commissioners revoked the business license of “Best Health Spa” for 90 days in a called meeting on Dec. 10 and placed the business on probation for an additional six months. The action comes after several alleged violations, including “a massage of areas prohibited by the county ordinance” and the employee not ... [Full Story »] 

By the time this paper arrives in your hands, the campaign of 2008 will be over. I am writing this before Tuesday’s runoff election here in our state, so I don’t know how those final three races turned out. (I know how I would have liked for them to turn out, but that’s another issue). For many, including the most die-hard of political ... [Full Story »]