News from Barrow News-Journal

We all remember the big historic moments of our lives. The day President Kennedy was killed. The first moon landing. President Nixon resigning. The Challenger tragedy. 9/11. But historic shifts aren’t just momentous, singular events. More often, they are the accumulation of many smaller changes that we barely notice at the time. It’s only ... [Full Story »] 

Barrow County residents are applying for gun permits at a record pace. In the first half of this year, the Barrow County Probate Court accepted almost as many applications for Georgia Weapons Permits as it did in all of 2012. In the decade leading up to last year, the court typically received fewer than 700 annually. But in 2012 the number rose ... [Full Story »] 

For the second time in two years, the Winder City Council has taken advantage of the economic downturn to make a deal it couldn’t refuse. Last year, the council bought at auction the former operations center of the failed Peoples Bank and turned it into the new City Hall. Tuesday night, the council voted to allow the Winder Public Facilities ... [Full Story »] 

The Winder City Council will have a called meeting Tuesday night to decide whether to allow the city’s Public Facilities Authority to buy the business operations of the Chimneys Golf Course. Among the other items slated for action are a second six-month extension of a contract with local business broker Mike Rice to assist with annexations of ... [Full Story »] 

Immigration reform is a political hot potato. A lot of people are essentially anti-immigrant and see the influx of Hispanics as a threat to the American way. Historically, Americans have always been critical of immigrants. That was true over 100 years ago when there was a huge influx of Italian and other European immigrants flowing through ... [Full Story »]