Blairsville News

US regulators have closed five more failed banks during the weekend - Community Bank of West Georgia; Neighborhood Community Bank, Newnan; Horizon Bank, Pine City; MetroPacific Bank, Irvine; and Mirae Bank, Los Angeles - bringing the year's total till now to 45.

Georgia has now had 14 banks fail since 2000, with the most recent being on June 19, 2009 in Blairsville, Georgia.

Army Spc. Andy "Sully" Sullens, a Dahlonega native wounded in a May 17 blast in Afghanistan, could finally return to Georgia, possibly this month.

Fellowship Baptist Church in Brinson is currently adding a new building with the help of Builders for Christ.

Banks in Georgia, North Carolina and Kansas were closed by regulators Friday, bringing the total number of failures for the year to 40 as the financial and credit markets continue to claim victims.

Wal-Mart will begin taking applications for a new super store in Blairsville on Highway 515 starting Monday.

BLAIRSVILLE, Ga. -- In 1937, 19-year-old Murl Garoutte left his home in Marionville, Mo., boarding a steam engine train bound for the Nevada desert to join 3 million other young men mobilized across the nation in the "Tree Army." As a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps, Garoutte and the other uniformed "boys" of the CCC helped build many of ...

Georgia State Parks have beauty and fun wrapped up into one stop. They are the perfect vacation add-on or destination.

BLAIRSVILLE, Ga. - Lake Lanier is almost at full pool. Lakes Hiawassee, Nottley, Chataqua and others in the Appalachians that ultimately supply Lanier and the 3,000,000 thirsty people in Atlanta are nearly full too.

In his new book, "Purt Nigh Gone: The Old Mountain Ways," former governor and U.S. Sen.

Customers at Appalachian Community Bank should not be affected by a consent order the bank's parent company recently agreed to with federal regulators, say company officials.

Kudos to Joe Mulholland, district attorney for the South Georgia Circuit. After reading my suggestion that state government rather than schoolteachers take a furlough, he told me, "Some of us in government have already taken your argument to heart." Yarbrough: Thoughts on politics, a portrait Story updated at 5:40 pm on 4/18/2009 Kudos to Joe ...

No doubt about it: this morning's strong wind gusts got a lot of people's attention.

A lawsuit against Georgia Board of Regents Chairman Richard L. Tucker has been resolved, according to the parties in the case, but the details remain under court seal.

The biggest change in Ann Mayne's life began in her ring finger. Before she retired as children's librarian from the Dalton-Whitfield Library in 2005, Mayne's movements had begun to get slower and she became fatigued more easily.

The latest research-based information will be shared in Blairsville. Current cattle farmers and those who want to become one will find useful knowledge at the annual University of Georgia Mountain Beef Cattle Field Day April 15 in Blairsville, Ga.

The Riverside Military Academy baseball team picked up its second Region 8-AA victory on Wednesday, defeating Union County 7-1 in Blairsville.

United Community Bank has become the latest bank to announced layoffs due to the economy.

A prominent Gwinnett County businessman who is also chairman of the Georgia Board of Regents is facing allegations in a lawsuit that are defamatory and embarrassing, according to the judge in the case.

A north Georgia man convicted of conspiracy to grow hundreds of marijuana plants in and around the Chattahoochee National Forest has been sentenced to life in prison.