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A food drive that’s now underway will help keep shelves stocked at the Gilmer Community Food Pantry.

A food drive that’s now underway will help keep shelves stocked at the Gilmer Community Food Pantry.

Food drive underway for local community pantry

Michael Andrews - Mountain Life Editor
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
A countywide food drive that recently started will help keep shelves stocked at Gilmer Community Food Pantry. The local food pantry has seen an upswing in families coming to pick up food following lower than usual numbers much of the past two years amid the pandemic.
At right, Randy Steele, a volunteer at the Gilmer Community Food Pantry, built the first little food pantry to go up in the county, also seen above.

At right, Randy Steele, a volunteer at the Gilmer Community Food Pantry, built the first little food pantry to go up in the county, also seen above.

County’s first little food pantry established

Michael Andrews - Mountain Life Editor
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
It’s a little box with an important mission — to provide food to those who need it, perhaps at times when there’s no other option. Gilmer County’s first little food pantry was put up last week near the entrance to the health department at 28 Southside Church Street.
Mountain View Elementary art teacher Misti Foster and students Axel Carrillo Godinez, Domingo Loarca Mateo and Moises Reynoso Bautista

Mountain View Elementary art teacher Misti Foster and students Axel Carrillo Godinez, Domingo Loarca Mateo and Moises Reynoso Bautista

School is in session

Robbie Bills - Sports Editor
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Gilmer County students were back in the classroom last Thursday for the first day of the new school year. Above, Mountain View Elementary art teacher Misti Foster and students Axel Carrillo Godinez, Domingo Loarca Mateo and Moises Reynoso Bautista make snakes and snails out of clay.
East Ellijay Police Chief Larry Callahan

East Ellijay Police Chief Larry Callahan

Police chief’s quick thinking saves life

Michael Andrews - Mountain Life Editor
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
When an emergency medical call came across the scanner on a recent July morning, East Ellijay’s police chief knew time would be crucial to its outcome. A woman wasn’t breathing at a home on Cherry Street, near the East Ellijay City Hall and Police Station.
Times-Courier

Times-Courier

Fuel charge added to solid waste contract

Andy Ashurst - Publisher
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Waste Pro took over hauling Gilmer County’s solid waste at the beginning of 2022, but at a special called meeting, commissioners were putting the finishing touches on the contract. Gilmer County Chair Charlie Paris said everything has been running smoothly with the company.
This photo was taken on a cell phone by Ellen Parks, who lives off Roundtop Road in southern Gilmer County. Parks met with the reporter of this article and shared her phone’s data. The date (June 25) and time (2:36 p.m.) stamps were verified, and the reporter also saw the tree and surrounding area where the photo was taken. The phone showed other data such as the camera’s f-stop (aperture) setting and has a standard 28mm lens. In the photo above, Parks zoomed out to 130mm, according to the data on her phone

This photo was taken on a cell phone by Ellen Parks, who lives off Roundtop Road in southern Gilmer County. Parks met with the reporter of this article and shared her phone’s data. The date (June 25) and time (2:36 p.m.) stamps were verified, and the reporter also saw the tree and surrounding area where the photo was taken. The phone showed other data such as the camera’s f-stop (aperture) setting and has a standard 28mm lens. In the photo above, Parks zoomed out to 130mm, according to the data on her phone

Big cat sighting stirs controversy

Mark Millican - Special to the Times-Courier
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
When Ellen Parks heard a neighbor’s cat crying outside her home in Creekside Estates, she ventured outside to see what was wrong. “It was way up in the top of a tree, and at that point I didn’t see the big cat,” she said of an alleged panther on a lower limb of the tree.
Times-Courier

Times-Courier

East Ellijay no longer allowing fireworks stands

Michael Andrews - Mountain Life Editor
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
East Ellijay will no longer allow outside fireworks vendors to temporarily set up shop following a recent vote by its city council.
Mark Millican is shown with a copy of his new book Some Gave All, which profiles the young men from Gilmer, Murray and Whitfield County who died serving in the Vietnam War.

Mark Millican is shown with a copy of his new book Some Gave All, which profiles the young men from Gilmer, Murray and Whitfield County who died serving in the Vietnam War.

Millican’s book honors lives of north Georgia soldiers cut short in Vietnam

Michael Andrews - Mountain Life Editor
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
A new book by a Times-Courier family member shines light on young Georgia soldiers who died in the Vietnam War. In Some Gave All, Mark Millican profiles 23 young men from Gilmer, Whitfield and Murray counties, some of whom arrived in Vietnam as young as age 18.
Times-Courier

Times-Courier

Shoe drive till Aug. 28 at Ellijay Hope Lutheran

Michael Andrews - Mountain Life Editor
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Ellijay Hope Lutheran Church is again collecting shoes, many of which will travel around the world to children in need. The church, located at 3295 Old Highway 5 South, began its annual shoe drive July 31.