Calhoun News

New data shows that cities in area counties along I-75 were once again the fastest growing from 2007 to 2008.

Those were the themes of 1st Sgt. John Blair's funeral Wednesday at Trinity Baptist Church in Calhoun.

An Army carry team carries the transfer case containing the remains of 1st Sgt. John D. Blair to a transfer vehicle June 22 at Dover Air Force Base, Del.

Funeral services will take place Wednesday for a Georgia Army National Guardsmen who was killed in Afghanistan.

The body of 1st Sgt. John Blair is taken from an airplane at Tom B. David Airport in Gordon County.

* Jose Alberto Archila-Gomez, 24, Sugar Valley Road, Calhoun, was charged Friday by the Dalton Police Department with trafficking cocaine and trafficking methamphetamine.

Come to Downtown Calhoun and enjoy old time music at old time prices - only $5 admission to the first SEBA concert at the Harris Arts Center, 212 S. Wall St., on July 18 from 7 to 9 p.m. featuring Penn Lester and the Dixie Hot Shots and 4ever Blue.

Temp: 86.0 F Heat Index: 88 F Augusta, Bush Field, GA June 23, 2009 1st Sgt. John D. Blair, 38, of Calhoun, Ga., died June 20 in Mado Zayi, Afghanistan.

John Blair of Calhoun, who was killed Saturday in Afghanistan, was an Army National Guard member assigned to the 121st Infantry from Lawrenceville, part of the Georgia National Guard's 48th Brigade Combat Team.

The Department of Defense has identified 702 American service members who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations.

The Army says a citizen-soldier in the Georgia National Guard has been killed in Afghanistan.

A 38-year-old Calhoun, Ga., resident was killed in Afghanistan over the weekend when a rocket-propelled grenade hit his vehicle, according to Georgia National Guard reports.

A Calhoun soldier was killed in Afghanistan this weekend. First Sgt. John Blair, 38, died June 20 in Mado Zayi, Afghanistan, when a rocket-propelled grenade struck his vehicle.

CHS graduate Kimberly Crawford and her new bike and helmet will be going to West Georgia in the fall.

Annual river trip started Saturday in Ellijay 06/20/09 Email this story to a friend Paddle Georgia sets sail today on the Coosawattee and Oostanaula rivers of Northwest Georgia, charting a 92-mile course from Ellijay to Rome, June 20-26. This is the fifth-year of what is considered the largest organized, long-distance paddle trip in the country.

The 10-county Coosa Valley Regional Development Center is hoping to stave off a battle with the five counties to the east by sending a special invitation to a July 16 reorganization meeting in Calhoun.

Another day, another drug bust, this time in Calhoun, Georgia. Tuesday afternoon, the Calhoun Police Department Special Operations Unit and Detectives from the Sheriff's Office Drug Task Force acted on a search warrant in the Resaca Community.

We've seen factories powered by food waste, landfill trash, and brewery waste. Now Georgia carpet manufacturer Shaw Industries is building a carpet-to-energy facility fueled by carpet materials from manufacturing operations and post-consumer collections.

Funerals were set for Saturday for two of the three Georgia National Guard members killed in Afghanistan just over a week ago.

Calhoun resident Chanler Hunter, 5, steers a tractor as his mom Abby rides along with Chanler's brothers Joseph, 5, and Austin, 6, in tow Saturday at the 12th annual Show and Shine sponsored by the Northwest Georgia Antique Tractor and Engine Club.