Jefferson News

Dennis and Susan Goss of Douglasville, Georgia, are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Cassandra Leigh Goss to Brian Davis Wages, of Athens, Georgia, son of Rodney and Jena Wages of Athens, Georgia.

Winder-Barrow FFA member Merlin Cain recently placed first in the Chapter FFA Agricultural Electrification Career Development Event.

Jeff Choquette had just a few hours to celebrate his World Crown 300 win at Gresham Motorsports Park Sunday evening.

As rising country star Brantley Gilbert says in one of his self-written songs, "Rock This Town," it's 10 o'clock, get ready to rock.

State Department of Natural Resources rangers are looking for the carcass of a black bear that was hit and killed Sunday as it tried to cross Interstate 85 in Jefferson.

The Jackson County Area Chamber of Commerce Women in Business program will name its Woman of the Year at a luncheon scheduled for noon next Wednesday at the Jackson EMC Auditorium, 850 Commerce Road, Jefferson.

Susanne DeGrasse, branch manager for the Madison County Library, has announced that an Athens Technical College employee who wishes to remain anonymous has pledged to give $500 to the Friends of the Library if matching funds can be raised.

Last year, Peach State Speedway was in danger of closing its doors, just as dozens of other tracks in the Southeast have done this decade.

The man who shot and killed his former girlfriend then committed suicide Thursday nearly killed a third person as he apparently tried to escape from police.

Nicholson Mayor Ronnie Maxwell gets a little support from his wife, Gale, on Tuesday night at the Nicholson Public Library as the votes are counted in the mayor's race.

Although many key details remain to be negotiated, Congress appears poised to enact some substantial reform of American health care that will build on, rather than replace, our patchwork of government, private, and non-profit insurance.

Nine men were arraigned Monday on federal charges they tricked a paper mill into paying $4.8 million for timber that was never delivered.

In a year when ample rainfall has made most farmers smile, all Trey Mobley needs for a successful peanut harvest is a little sunshine.

Construction on a Jackson County highway has been delayed for the third time this month.

A Regions Bank branch in Gainesville is one of 121 Regions branches that will close early next year.

Two Jefferson men were arrested and charged with robbery in Athens on Friday afternoon, according to police and jail records.

Forecasters do not expect the Athens area to receive anything close to the almost 4 inches the area received Oct.

I left Athens as dark clouds threatened overhead, then dumped rain on me all the way up U.S. Highway 441 past Commerce.

Every week, Fowler Drive Elementary students peer through microscopes to look at cells or don protective goggles to study chemical reactions.

After the recent flooding of Curry Creek Park in Jefferson, Thursday's park cleanup couldn't come at a better time.