Local
Law enforcement officials are looking for Megan Alyssa Colone, 30, of Stone Mountain (top left); Juan Ayala-Rodriguez, 35, of Gainesville (top right); Oscar Manuel Garcia, 26, of Austell (bottom right); Mario Alberto Barbosa-Juarez, 29, of Oklahoma City, Okla. (bottom left); and a fifth unidentified man (center) in connection with the murder of Rossana Delgado, 37, of Bethlehem.
Five sought in connection with murder
Gilmer Rotary Club member Charlie Pults, right, and Ryan Smiley, a member of the Gilmer High School Interact Club, work their way through a stack of Farmers to Families food boxes during a distribution day at the Amicalola EMC warehouse last week.
Food boxes provide 75,000 meals
A chained-down Toys for Tots donation box like this one was recently taken from downtown shop TJ and Company Antiques. The pictured box sits on the store’s front counter, while the tampered-with box was in its rest room.
Toys for Tots donation box stolen
North Georgia Mountain Crisis Network representatives Julia Gilliam, left, and Kimberly O’Neal, right, join Gilmer Commission Chairman Charlie Paris for the signing of a proclamation that designates April as Sexual Assault Awareness Month in the county.
County observes Sexual Assault Awareness Month
A forthcoming project will provide improvements to the downtown Ellijay roundabout, including preventing damage to the traffic circle’s concrete curbing.
Ellijay council OKs downtown safety, roundabout improvement
Huff-Mosley’s dim lights set to brighten
Gilmer High School STAR Student Morgan Todd, right, is pictured with his STAR Teacher Joe Pflueger, center, and Ellijay Lions Club President Sam Burrell, left.
Todd, Pflueger named GHS STAR Student, Teacher
Pictured is a semi-feral cat that arrived at the Gilmer Animal Shelter pregnant with kittens. The purpose of a new trap, fix and release program is to reduce an overpopulation of feral cats in the county.
