Superior Court judge David Motes is home after undergoing surgery Thursday at an Athens hospital, while judge Joe Booth remains in the intensive care unit at the hospital. Motes’ surgery was connected to a bone infection. A cyst was removed ...
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In less than a month, Gene Hart will leave behind his office as Banks County Commission Chairman. He will have served just one term in office, but I believe the impact he leaves behind will be a positive and successful one. There will be those ...
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The Hall County Sheriff's Office, Criminal Investigation Division, is investigating a shooting that occurred on Harris Road in East Hall County that left a Lula man hospitalized. Deputies responded to a report of a shooting on Harris Road off ...
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The Homer City Council approved a bid of $39,890 from Farr Electric, Gainesville, for labor and materials for electrical work on the new fire station at its monthly meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 9. This bid covers doing the minimum amount of work ...
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A resident of Highway 164, Commerce, reported a burglary to the Banks County Sheriff’s Office on Monday, Dec. 8. The resident said someone entered his basement within the past three weeks and cut a large majority of the copper plumbing and ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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Two Hall County brothers have been arrested in connection with a rash of burglaries in Banks County. Banks County Sheriff Charles Chapman said Tuesday that arrest warrants were issued for two men in connection with five burglaries in Banks County ...
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A health spa at Banks Crossing was shut down Tuesday by the sheriff’s department for violating county codes. The alleged violations include “a massage of areas prohibited by the county ordinance” and the employee not being property clothed. ...
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anon about Freedom Bank enters cease and desist order Tue, 06.01.2009 08:18 Sounds like you are either jealous of your friends or need to choose better friends. My dog ate som
ething bad one time and got SICK, he has never tried it again. Take lessons from him.
Joe Christmas about Freedom Bank enters cease and desist order Sat, 03.01.2009 06:21 I don't really understand this comment. If the man who loaned these people money that the bank could
never recoup, why would he be relaxed drinking a beer? Unless he is no longer associated with [...]
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Recent Comments from Top Stories
Tue, 06.01.2009 08:18
Sounds like you are either jealous of your friends or need to choose better friends. My dog ate som ething bad one time and got SICK, he has never tried it again. Take lessons from him.
Sat, 03.01.2009 06:21
I don't really understand this comment. If the man who loaned these people money that the bank could never recoup, why would he be relaxed drinking a beer? Unless he is no longer associated with [...]