Summerville News

The former Floyd County chief magistrate facing several theft and fraud accusations is scheduled for trial today.

When Howard Finster was 3 years old, he had his first vision - a vision that, decades later, would give his dear friend John Turner his official start in the folk art world.

John Turner, president of the Paradise Garden Foundation and a close friend of late folk artist Howard Finster, holds the first version of a painting Finster had him paint depicting the artist's very first vision.

SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA CO., GA - A man is dead after falling about 40 feet from the roof of the Mohawk Industries plant.

After a rogue thunderstorm left a natural work of art painted across the sky between Dowdy Park and Paradise Gardens more than two decades ago, Finster Fest frequenters knew there was something unique about the art festival.

Chris Mathis , the former Floyd County chief magistrate facing multiple theft and fraud accusations, is scheduled for trial June 10, officials said.

Dr. David Eugene Massey, who wore many hats in the Hall County School System, passed away Thursday at Emory Hospital in Atlanta at age 74.

A window of sunshine and no rain allowed the celebration of a Floyd County landmark to go on as planned.