By GENE ESPY Editor The Hope Rebirth Homeless Shelter might be “homeless” for its longtime volunteers Gail Rush when she retires after nine years. She has been instrumental with the work that has been done to make the Shelter successful and helping the needs of those who find themselves homeless. Mrs. Rush has been with…

By GENE ESPY Staff Writer “I can’t tell you what a blessing it is,” Mrs. Carolyn Parker Wooten said about her medical mission trips. “Every place I have been I have left a piece of my heart and I can barely speak about it without choking up and tears coming to my eyes because I…

Collecting all the delinquent tax bills in Chattooga County is impossible, according to one official. This county isn’t alone. Tax commissioners across Georgia often struggle to get people to pay. Georgia’s Constitution empowers local officials to sell a person’s property if they don’t pay their property taxes. Each year, tax commissioners across Georgia threaten or…

A demonstration of the new voting equipment will be held from 10 a.m. until noon Thursday, March 19 at the Subligna Community Center. For details call 706-397-2394.

Did you know that 28 percent of the labor force works inside Chattooga County? Most countians are employed and work at businesses in Floyd, Walker and Whitfield counties. That’s why you see a string of cars heading out of the county on Hwy. 27 each morning. The Georgia Department of Labor’s data shows that 72…