Cornelia News

About three times a week, J&J Foods gets a fresh shipment of chicken products from Fieldale Farms.

If you were stranded on a desert island and could have only one food to survive on, which food would you choose? Would it be a juicy steak, a fluffy baked potato or a piece of creamy cheesecake? These foods would have to be prepared over or in a heated appliance.

CORNELIA a ' Two women were killed and a child injured in a crash in Cornelia Friday afternoon.

Joni Mabe stands in her Everything Elvis Museum in Cornelia. Special ETAs from left, Johnny Elvis, Damon Hendrix and Robby Dean Scott perform at the 2008 Big E Festival.

Local act The Bros. Marler, consisting of siblings Drew and Daniel Marler, play poppy roots rock that sounds like Elvis Costello with a harmonica.

The new Wal-Mart in Cleveland opens Wednesday amid new signs that progress is being made toward opening a store in Cornelia.

Sometimes a story is too good not to write. Alma Bowen, who was born in Hall County and grew up in Habersham County, was working at The Times in 1971 when a $1.1 million bank swindle hit Habersham County.

Margie Llewallyn has written a memoir on her life because she didn't want the stories from her life to be left untold.

* Brad Deshawn Bailey, 29, 2780 Broom Town Road, Atlanta, was charged Friday by the Whitfield County Sheriff's Office with giving false information or false name and first-degree forgery.

"In the mid 1990s, Bill Gates predicted bank branches would be dead in 10 years," writes Paul Seibert in CUES Complete Guide to Credit Union Facilities .

Community Bank & Trust, which is based in Cornelia and has a number of North Georgia branches, has executed a Cease and Desist Order with the FDIC and the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance.

Ira B. McClung, age 77, was born Nov. 5, 1931, and passed away June 23, 2009. He retired from the State of Georgia in 1989, at which time he moved to Tennessee to make Gallatin his home.

CLARKESVILLE a ' One man was killed after a crash in Habersham County late Wednesday, the Georgia State Patrol said.

A northeast Georgia man is jailed after being shot while leading deputies on a chase through Habersham County, including two churchyards.

Lt. Governor Casey Cagle's campaign June 8th announced that Lt. Governor Cagle has received the endorsement of 115 Georgia mayors.

Several Habersham County schools were placed on lockdown Wednesday after an armed robbery at a nearby convenience store.