Calhoun News

The small jet carrying the body of Lance Cpl. Seth Sharp back home touched down at Calhoun's Tom B. David Airport just before 3 p.m. Thursday.

Peebles department store plans to put a store in Calhoun's Indian Hills Shopping Center by the fall.

The body of Marine Lance Cpl. Seth Sharp of Adairsville, who was killed in action in Afghanistan on July 2, will arrive at Tom B. David Airport in Calhoun today at 3 p.m. Sharp was born in Dalton.

Racemark International in Malta, N.Y. laid off 36 employees effective Sept. 30. Employees were notified July 2 that the company will move most of its operations to its plant in Calhoun, Ga., CEO Ginger Cannon-Bailey said.

Jeffrey W. Jordan met his wife-to-be at a party and later told relatives she was "like a movie star" and a "Barbie doll." "He told me later that the minute he met me, he wanted to marry me," said his widow, Lacey.

Gov. Steve Beshear has directed that flags at all state office buildings be lowered to half-staff on Wednesday, July 1, 2009 in honor of a Kentucky native soldier who died while supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.

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.