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State plans mental health crisis center
State plans mental health crisis center
Expected to open in 2025, project considered “milestone” By Dave Williams, Bureau Chief Capitol Beat News Service ATLANTA – Georgia’s mental health agency has broken...
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Film industry generates $4.1 billionin Georgia’s fiscal year ’23
Film industry generates $4.1 billionin Georgia’s fiscal year ’23
By Dave Williams,Bureau Chief Capitol Beat News Service ATLANTA – The film industry spent $4.1 billion in Georgia during the last fiscal year, Gov....
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COVID-19 rising but well below pandemic levels
COVID-19 rising but well below pandemic levels
By Dave WilliamsBureau ChiefCapitol Beat News Service ATLANTA – COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths in Georgia are rising but remain well below levels seen during the...
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Buy property for parks
Back when Rob Jones was a sole commissioner, more than a decade ago, the county paid consultants to look at parks here and they unequivocally...
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What the numbers say aboutPickens County
With talk of parks and needs for the county as a whole, we thought it might be an opportune time to refresh everyone...
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From the Ark to dinosaurs to Adult World: Reflections on a family trip
By Angela Reinhardt, Staff Writer areinhardt@pickensprogress.com We’d made it through the queue and onto one of the caravan of buses that took guests to...
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Can Jasper be an eco-tourism destination? Keep Pickens Beautiful thinks so

Can Jasper be an eco-tourism destination? Keep Pickens Beautiful thinks so

By Angela Reinhardt on August 25, 2021

Edible landscaping, recycling, other projects underway Vered Kleinberger trims up strawberry plants in a North Main parking lot. Edible Pickens want to expand with new…

Positives from the ‘negative’

By Staff Writer on August 25, 2021

Anyone who works for a newspaper learns quickly, you’re never going to make all the readers happy. Sometimes mistakes legitimately happen and you deserve the…

More financial education needed for our kids

By Staff Writer on August 18, 2021

We were pleasantly surprised to report that the local emergency shelter, ACES Youth Home in Jasper, is thinking outside the box and giving their kids…