Bethlehem News

Keith Ridgeway of Bethlehem works on attaching the new Star of Bethlehem to a post on the corner of Star Street and Manger Avenue on Saturday morning.

The two men accused of murdering a well-known Athens man and his companion in Oglethorpe County in 2006 have another new trial date.

A brighter star will shine over the little town of Bethlehem this Christmas. Leaders in the Barrow County city - which draws people who want the Biblical postmark on their Christmas cards - nearly have finished building a replacement luminary in time for a 2009 debut.

Customers' senses will be awakened as they enter It's a Wonderful Life, says Jeannie Pickard, who is working hard to ensure customers will want to return again and again, thus becoming loyal customers of the newly-opened Bethlehem business.

For the third consecutive meeting, the Bethlehem Town Council discussed Craig Cole's new store, It's a Wonderful Life, at 812 Christmas Ave.

Deputies arrested a 41-year-old Bethlehem man last weekend after he began hollering at a bar manager who refused the man's request to book the glam-rock band Kiss, according to the Barrow County Sheriff's Office.

A Barrow County jail officer was arrested Thursday after he bought a small quantity of hyrdocodone from an undercover sheriff's deputy, the Sheriff's Office said.

19, 1998.] In her newest novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes the kind of artistic risks only a beginner - or a genius - would dare take.

Nelta Joan Hicks, 68, of Calhoun, Ga., and formerly of this area, died Wednesday, Oct.

Stevi B's of Winder gave away 100 buffets on the evening of Wednesday, Oct. 7, which totaled up to about 75 pizzas said owner, Matt West.

Law enforcement officers gathered at daybreak Friday outside the Oconee County Sheriff's Office complex to remember a fallen colleague who died in the line of duty a year ago.

" The Community Bank &Trust in Bethlehem was robbed by two armed men just after 4:00 p.m. Thursday.

The time to qualify has come and gone. In Carl, which had three openings - mayor and Council Posts 1 and 2 - only current mayor David Brock qualified for his seat.

Candidates in city races on the Nov. 3 ballots will be officially qualifying to seek election next week.

Attorneys expect a Barrow County jury to reach consensus today in the trial of a Bethlehem man accused of shooting his sleeping mother in the back with a crossbow last summer.

Opening statements are scheduled this morning in the murder trial of a Bethlehem man charged with shooting his mother with a crossbow last summer.

The following property transfers were recently recorded in the Colquitt County Clerk of Court office: Seaborn W. Ewer Jr.

Budget cuts have forced the Gwinnett County Library System to close the Dacula branch.

As bomb-sniffing dogs go, Rusty was something of a misfit. Gwinnett County Police Department Retired Gwinnett police canine Rusty will be buried Wednesday in a cemetery for police service dogs in Bethlehem.

As bomb-sniffing dogs go, Rusty was something of a misfit. Gwinnett County Police Department Retired Gwinnett police canine Rusty will be buried Wednesday in a cemetery for police service dogs in Bethlehem.