The Barrow County Board of Education appears likely to approve the use of reserves to offset a roughly $4.6 million deficit in the county school system’s proposed Fiscal Year 2021 budget — a move that would help the district avoid staff furloughs and any additional cuts beyond the ones the d…
The Barrow County School System plans to purchase up to $130,000 in personal protective equipment for school nurses, staff members and students in the coming fiscal year to try to stem the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
Following the recommendation of the city’s planning board and staff, the Winder City Council on Tuesday, July 7, voted down a proposal to annex and rezone more than 200 acres of land just south of Atlanta Highway and west of Pine Hills Golf Club that would have eventually allowed for a large…
The Barrow News-Journal won six awards from the Georgia Press Association for its coverage in 2019 among weekly newspapers of similar size across the state.
The Barrow County School System currently plans to begin its school year with in-person instruction Aug. 4 but will also offer a distance-learning option for all students due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Visitors enjoyed dinner while listening to Reckless Abandon at the Plaza at Jackson in downtown Winder on Friday, July 3.
The American Red Cross has the following upcoming blood donation drives in Barrow County:
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The Chimneys golf course, owned and operated by the City of Winder, will be closed through at least July 15 after a course employee was "potentially exposed" to someone experiencing symptoms of COVID-19, city officials said Wednesday, July 1.
The Piedmont Regional Library System has announced new operating hours for each of its library branches, including those in Barrow County, effective Monday, July 6.
New Winder city administrator Mandi Cody is still settling in after being hired last month by the city council and has barely had one full week on the job.
The City of Winder plans to implement two-hour parking limits throughout much of the downtown area — a move aimed at attracting more customers to downtown restaurants and businesses and encouraging owners and employees of those businesses to utilize non-two-hour lots and spaces.
Renee Cardona says she’s aware of the poor local reviews in the past for CatSnip, the new spay/neuter services provider for Barrow County Animal Control. But Cardona, who took over ownership of the metro Atlanta-based organization in October, added that she’s aiming to change any negative pe…
At least 100 more coronavirus cases have been confirmed among Barrow County residents over the past week, aligning with a recent spike in the number of cases statewide.
The City of Auburn won't hold its originally-scheduled Independence Day celebration Saturday, July 4, due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
The Downtown Winder Live summer concert series kicks off Friday, July 3, as the Winder Downtown Business Association will host a concert from 7-10 p.m. at the Plaza at Jackson, the new pedestrian plaza along Jackson and Candler streets and Midland Avenue.
The Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives (ACCE) has awarded Vicki L. Keibler of the Barrow County Chamber of Commerce with its Circle of Champions Sales awards for both number of new personal sales and for dollar value of new personal sales.
The Auburn, Statham and Winder public libraries have now reopened to in-person services after being closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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After they said they were caught off guard by the county’s decision to terminate a professional services and lease agreements with them, the operators of Leftover Pets said earlier this month they want to continue operating in Barrow County but will need to find a more affordable space to do so.
The Winder City Council on Tuesday, June 23, unanimously approved a $43.15 million total operating budget for the city for Fiscal Year 2021, representing a 1.6-percent decrease from the current fiscal year, which ends June 30.
The Barrow County Board of Commissioners quickly and unanimously approved the county’s roughly $84.4 million total operating budget for Fiscal Year 2021 at its Tuesday, June 23 meeting.
Harrison Poultry has offered to donate land next to its Bethlehem headquarters for the construction of a new Barrow County Emergency Services fire station, BCES chief Alan Shuman told county commissioners during a meeting Tuesday, June 23.
A large mixed-use development is being proposed off Highway 211 in the Braselton-Hoschton area of Barrow County and is set to go before a state review process.
The Jackson EMC Foundation board of directors awarded a total of $40,000 in grants during its June meeting, including $22,500 to organizations serving Barrow County.
A commercial development is planned for 19.5 acres of vacant land at the corner of Tom Miller and Patrick Mill roads in Winder.
Northeast Georgia Health System recently became the first health system in the state with hospitals designated as Emergency Cardiac Care Centers (ECCC). NGMC Gainesville received Level 1, NGMC Braselton Level 2 and NGMC Barrow and NGMC Lumpkin both received Level 3 designation. This means, p…
The "Faith over Fear" fundraiser has been an initiative on part of Logo Surfing Promotional Items and Apparel to show support for local health care and frontline workers. Haruko Watkins of Logo Surfing wanted to do something to show her appreciation for front line and healthcare workers. The…
With the traditional start of the school year just a month and a half away, the Barrow County School System has unveiled three tentative scenarios to reopen during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A federal judge in Gainesville has ruled that former Statham police chief Allan Johnston violated the constitutional rights of a Hoschton woman and public critic of the city by issuing a criminal trespass warning against her and subsequently arresting her at a city council meeting.
The Barrow County Board of Commissioners will resume allowing public in-person attendance of its meetings starting next week and will begin holding monthly work sessions again in addition to the monthly voting sessions.
The Winder City Council made the hiring of Mandi Cody as the new city administrator official last week, unanimously approving an employment agreement with her during a called meeting Thursday, June 11.
A developer’s plans to build a large residential subdivision to the south of Atlanta Highway and west of Pine Hills Golf Course was dealt a setback Tuesday, June 16, when the majority of a Winder panel opposed annexing the land into the city.
The American Red Cross has the following upcoming blood drive opportunities in Barrow County:
The Walton-Barrow Board of Realtors was recently awarded $1,500 from the Georgia Realtors 2020 COVID-19 Community Outreach Grant. The board presented F.I.S.H. of Walton County and New Path 1010, Inc. of Barrow County $750 each. F.I.S.H. is providing school lunches for children during the sum…
The Statham City Council unanimously approved the city’s Fiscal Year 2021 budget during its Tuesday, June 16 meeting with two weeks to spare — a stark contrast to last year, when the council was six weeks late adopting a spending plan for FY2020 due to several concerns with the numbers.
Homeowners in Chateau Elan have won a major lawsuit to stop the redevelopment of the resort's Par 3 golf course into residential homes.
Without any locally-contested races, turnout for the Tuesday, June 9 primary election in Barrow County was low, but the local results of the state- and federal-level races closely mirrored the statewide ones.
Safe Kids Georgia will be handing out free bike helmets to children ages 2 and older on Barrow County School System campuses in June through a district partnership with Northeast Georgia Health System.
Community leaders and local law enforcement officials will participate in a town hall meeting on race relations Thursday evening, June 7.
The Statham City Council made some tweaks to the city’s proposed Fiscal Year 2021 budget during a public hearing and work session last week ahead of a final vote planned for next week.
The COVID-19 Community Response Fund, hosted by the Athens Area Community Foundation in partnership with United Way of Northeast Georgia, announced its third round of grant distributions to 16 nonprofits last week, including ones located in and serving Barrow County.
The Auburn City Council approved the hiring of a construction manager at risk for the new city hall, which will be built on city-owned property off Atlanta Highway to the southeast of the current city hall.
Another resident death from COVID-19 at Winder Health Care and Rehabilitation was reported this week by facility and the state, bringing the death toll at the nursing home on East May Street to 17.
Barrow County has been awarded federal funds made available through the Department of Homeland Security(DHS)/Federal Emergency Management Agency under the Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program.
After nearly a decade, Barrow County is moving on from its animal spay/neuter-services relationship with Leftover Pets and plans to partner with another company despite public pushback.
The Winder Public Library is now available for Porch Pick-Up of materials that include books, audiobooks and DVDs.
Barrow County residents added their voices to the Black Lives Matter movement last weekend as a pair of peaceful protests were held in Winder.
Despite several agreeing it wasn’t a perfect answer, Barrow County school leaders approved a transportation schedule that would flip school starting times for the elementary and middle and high schools for the 2020-21 school year.
The Barrow County Historical Society and Barrow County Museum will host a Train Day event from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, June 13, at the Gainesville-Midland #208 steam engine and caboose museum downtown.
18 deaths from COVID-19 now confirmed in county; reported death toll at Winder nursing home up to 15
The Georgia Department of Public Health has now confirmed 328 coronavirus cases and 18 deaths from COVID-19 in Barrow County as of Tuesday afternoon, June 2.
An abandoned commercial building in downtown Winder suffered second-floor fire damage Sunday, May 31, due to an electrical problem, according to Winder Fire Chief Matt Whiting. Just before 10 a.m. Sunday, Winder firefighters and crews from Barrow County Emergency Services were dispatched to …
Bars and night clubs around Georgia can reopen beginning Monday, June 1, after being closed for roughly two months amid the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Brian Kemp announced Thursday.
There have now been 45,070 confirmed coronavirus cases in Georgia, including 320 in Barrow County, and 1,962 confirmed deaths from COVID-19.
Local nonprofit Camp Twin Lakes announced last week that its summer camp programs for children with serious illnesses, disabilities and other life challenges will be moved to an online-only format in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Barrow County School System’s nutrition department will be distributing free drive-through meals to children on weekdays through June 30.
The City of Auburn will encourage, but not order, citizens and employees to wear masks while inside municipal buildings.
Good evening, Wildcats, families and friends. My name is Kelly Eick, and it’s my honor to be the valedictorian for such a special graduating class here at Apalachee High School.
To my fellow graduates, I am honored to present this speech, even in a nontraditional format.
So as many of you know, I set a goal to become valedictorian in the seventh grade, so I bet most of you assumed that I had written this speech a while ago.
Class of 2020 graduates of Apalachee and Winder-Barrow high schools didn’t shy away from addressing the “elephant in the room” as they gave remarks in unprecedented virtual graduation ceremonies last week — unusual and historic circumstances brought about by the coronavirus pandemic.
At the recent Arizona State Republican Party Convention, former Winder resident Bill Maynard was elected one of 54 delegates to the National Republican Party Convention to be held in Charlotte in August. Maynard is currently chairman of Arizona Legislative District 11, which is known as one …
Barrow County plans to market for sale a portion of county-owned land off Highway 82 next to the Barrow County Airport that it paid off all remaining debt on last month.
The following incidents were among those the Barrow County Sheriff’s Office recently responded to:
Barrow County Emergency Services has organized a charity car cruise Saturday, May 23, in honor of former Fire Medic Sean Crowe, who died unexpectedly on April 25.
Trinity Baptist Church of Auburn pastor Frankie Green prayed for a cure for the coronavirus at a service held at Winder Health Care and Rehabilitation Center on Thursday, May 14. The nursing home on East May Street has been hard-hit as 13 residents had died as Monday, May 18. Another 70 resi…
A pair of Winder companies are among more than 220 across the state identified by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s office that are helping businesses obtain personal protective equipment and other health care supplies to fight the spread of COVID-19.
The City of Winder will hold a public hearing Thursday, May 21, on the city’s proposed Fiscal Year 2021 budget.
The Georgia Department of Community Health on Monday confirmed the death of another resident of Winder Health Care and Rehabilitation due to COVID-19, bringing the total to 13, and four more coronavirus cases were reported among the resident population at the East May Street nursing home.
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