• Congressional candidates get conservative earful from voters in Talking Rock
• School officials, commissioner reach agreement on gymnasiums
• Commissioner's November meeting agenda
• Sheriff reviewing budget following town hall meeting
• School Board's statement on gym issue
• Second Cat confirmed rabid in Jasper
• Pickens man turns himself in for Veterans Day murder
• Another pound of meth seized, more arrests made as Marble Hill drug ring investigation continues
• Click here to view multi-person commission draft legislation for the 2010 election
• Jobless claims decline in Ga. But length of time out-of-work increases
• TEA Party meets Tuesday
• Unemployment rate rises in October
• Most house fires occur during colder months
• At Jasper council: Flag design contest with $500 prize announced; Mayor Weaver says "imperialistic" approach holds property taxes down in Jasper
• Sheriff cuts budget ahead of public hearing (Nov. 12)
• Judge Harry Doss resigns ahead of Judicial Qualifications Commission charges
• Pickens resident Bert Loftman enters race for Congress
• JQC files complaint against Judge Doss -- read full complaint

• TRIO Coffeehouse offers range of music this Friday, Page 9A
• Black powder accident costs hunter dearly, Page 5A
• Who killed the Electric Car? subject of Nov. 24th Progressives meeting, Page 3A

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• No excuse for not making backups
• Ubuntu offers great way to extend life of older computers
• No cable television, No problem -- a look at video online
• A look at cell phones

• Tea Party Rally planned for Saturday in Talking Rock
• Longtime County Agent Rick Jasperse enters run for state house
• 2008 Pickens County Budget Amendment
• Jasper attorney requests superior court judge's disqualification from over 50 cases
• At final hearing on tax hike, public tells commissioner to make cuts now
• County's audit deadline extended to Dec. 31
• County to build animal control facility, and other news from the commissioner's meeting
• Schools Keeping Eye on Flu Cases on Campus
• Prisoners to help with caretaking at animal control facility, and other news from the commissioner's meeting
• Arrests continue with Meth ring investigation
• Basketball season will happen here -- see full story in print edition
• Leister wins Nelson mayor; Morrow defeats Burgess in Jasper council
• Schools reporting record absences with flu, other viruses
• Sheriff cuts budget ahead of public hearing (Nov. 12)
• High school vandals arrested after suspects ID'd on Wal Mart video
• Final meetings on tax hike completed
• Updated -- School Board offers to waive $50,000 gym fees with a catch
• School board approves increased millage despite requests from taxpayers to reduce spending
• Courthouse committee votes to quit meeting
• City may seek eminent domain to expand water line to Wal Mart development
• New website tracking North Ga. politics
• Only 17 turn out for all day multi-person commission forum
• Tax board discusses property values in face of slow sales and foreclosures
• After confirmed cases of flu virus, schools taking special precautions
• No serious faults found in courthouse
• After Jasper attorney files motions against superior court Judge Doss, DA responds saying sufficient grounds for recusal request
• Advisory committee ponders “outside-the-box” ideas with courthouse renovation, but still lacks definite plans

Trick or Treat 2009 Photos

• Local man debuts Civil War novel set in Pickens County
• Lives being transformed in weight loss, nutrition program
• What happened to marble jobs here?
• New website tracking North Ga. politics
• An Appalachian Voice on Edward Townsend (1789-1860) Part II
• Run-down Armadillo found near Talking Rock
• Confederate grave marked at Bethesda Church in Nelson
• Slow food movement picking up speed
• County property inventory
• New website recognizes Pickens Veterans
• The ‘Sacred Harp’ tradition of singing: Still alive and well
• Taking the banjo back to the pre-recording days
• Scam ad in Progress turned over to GBI - Fraud fastest growing, hardest to solve crime
• Organic living in the modern age, without the trendy pretension
• Weaving tragedy and humor - Georgia author of the year Ray Atkins discusses second novel

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