East Jackson High School principal Matt Stratemeyer was recently recognized as the Georgia Association of School Councils' Administrator of the Year.
Pendergrass native Seth Christensen is on a steady rise in the world of racing at just 16 years old.
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U-Haul Co. of Georgia has announced that Storage Sense Jefferson signed on as a U-Haul neighborhood dealer to serve the Jefferson community.
This time of year, the Albert Gordon American Legion Post 56 gets extremely busy.
Jackson EMC linemen placed among the top at the Georgia Lineman’s Rodeo, which draws linemen from across the state to compete in a series of events in traditional lineman skills and tasks.
Maysville Elementary School has been awarded over $31,000 by the Georgia Department of Education for the Leader In Me Grant.
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MAYSVILLE - Baby Robert Kicz Whitlock, 6 months, Maysville, en…
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NICHOLSON - Betty Moore Freeman, 87, Nicholson, entered rest M…
Jefferson High school has announce that Tyler Pineda will serve as the head men's soccer coach.
The Jackson County football team will cap its spring practice session with a Wednesday (May 15, 6 p.m.) home scrimmage with Cherokee Bluff.
The Jefferson High School girls track team came home from the state championships with two individual gold medals and a 7th place finish overall while the boys finished 4th overall and would h…
Several local high school golfers are headed to the state championships early next week.
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- Summer reading kicks off May 29 at Jefferson library
- Touch-a-Truck coming up in Nicholson
- EJCHS' Stratemeyer named GASC Administrator of the Year
- Jefferson gets new U-Haul dealer at Storage Sense
- Mt. Olive to host market June 8
- Piedmont announces dean's list
- Shorter University announces dean's list
- Locals named dean's scholars at Piedmont
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A woman was recently arrested after acknowledging that she had methamphetamine during an incident in Commerce.
The following people were recently arrested by various agencies across Jackson County:
Officers with the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office were recently called after someone reported seeing a young juvenile walking into oncoming traffic on Allen Bridge Road at Hwy. 129 in North Jackson.
A North Carolina man was recently arrested in Jefferson after an attempted hijacking.
REBOOT Jackson has been working for months to make Narcan emergency kits available to the public. Narcan is a life-saving emergency drug used during overdose incidents.
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This is the time of the year for graduation—from kindergarten to graduate school—across the country.
It’s time for local elections (May 21) and while they may not be as hot as the upcoming presidential election in November, they’re still important to the local community. The decisions made by…
All of us bring about multiple images as we travel life’s journey, and we will be remembered differently by those with whom we cross paths. For the Payne Hall fraternity of the late fifties, t…
It became a tradition when Mama died 15 years ago, that I would drive the winding, mountain roads and travel to a little church in the piney woods on Mother’s Day.
The Jefferson Public Library will kick off its Summer Reading Program with Parrot Productions on May 29 at 11 a.m.
A Touch-a-Truck event will be held in Nicholson on Tuesday, June 4, at 10:30 a.m., the Nicholson library announced.
Staff at the Commerce Public Library are looking forward to beginning the summer reading program this year: Adventure Begins at The Library.
If someone heard a noisy kitchen, lots of people moving around, and the commotion of various kitchen appliances, their first thought would most likely be, “That’s a busy restaurant,” or “There…
The Jackson County 4-H Love of Llamas, and Chelian Farms Friends and Family attended the Southern States Llama Association (SSLA) annual conference. Members received sweepstakes awards in seve…
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Piedmont University congratulates the approximately 300 students who qualified for the dean's list for the Spring 2024 semester. Dean's list honorees end the semester with a GPA of 3.50-3.99.
Shorter University has announced students named to the dean's list during the spring semester of 2024. To achieve this honor, students must have been enrolled full-time and have earned at leas…
Piedmont University has announced the nearly 260 students named dean's scholars for the spring 2024 semester. Students who earned the dean's scholar designation finished the semester with a pe…
Jackson County Community Outreach has awarded 22 scholarships this year at $27,000.
Georgia College and State University has announced its spring 2024 dean's list. Locals honored included:
Mt. Olive Baptist Church will host a market on June 8 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Erastus Christian Church will host a summer family event called Hometown Nazareth on June 2-7 from 6-8:30 p.m. nightly.
Blacks Creek Baptist Church is offering "Farm Fresh Faith" Vacation Bible School for kids in grades K-6 this summer.
Commerce First Methodist Church dedicated a redesign of the stained glass window in its Family Life Center on Sunday, May 5, with a celebratory luncheon.
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