Cornelia News

In reference to your "opinion" article in Tuesday's paper, I must respectfully disagree.

Hall County presented the preliminary plans for sewer in North Hall to an enthusiastic crowd of area property owners Thursday at the Georgia Mountains YMCA.

One of Northeast Georgiaa s best-known community banks failed Friday, Jan. 29. Community Bank & Trust was taken over by state and federal regulators and the banka s assets sold to SCBT, N.A. of Orangeburg, SC.

Winter horse-play put a teenager from Georgia on a Lifestar flight to UT Medical Center.

Regulators have shut down a big bank in California, along with two banks in Georgia and one each in Florida and Minnesota.

Regulators shuttered Cornelia, Ga.-based Community Bank & Trust Friday, closing branches in Georgia and Alabama.

Regulators have shut down a big bank in California, along with two banks in Georgia and one each in Florida, Minnesota and Washington.

Community Bank and Trust, in Cornelia, Georgia, has joined the list of failed U.S. banks.

Deputies called to youth center riot, arrest 20 Staff Report Twenty juveniles were arrested after a disturbance at the Downing Clark Center in Gordon Count, last week.

At approximately 10:20 p.m., Monday night, Jan. 4, Gordon County deputy sheriffs responded to the report of a disturbance at the Downing - Clark Center Inc., a juvenile resident treatment facility, located at 1773 Trimble Hollow Road in unincorporated Gordon County.

In Habersham County, the City of Clarksville proved again it knows how to bring in Christmas; it was Clarkesville's turn to hold the annual Habersham County Christmas Parade instead of Cornelia this year.

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.