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Protesters in Ellijay joined others across the country on Thursday, July 17, in honoring the late Congressman John Lewis who represented Georgia and was also a prominent leader in the civil rights movement. Bethel Spargo joined others in the Ellijay square with her placard. (Contributed photo)

Protesters in Ellijay joined others across the country on Thursday, July 17, in honoring the late Congressman John Lewis who represented Georgia and was also a prominent leader in the civil rights movement. Bethel Spargo joined others in the Ellijay square with her placard. (Contributed photo)

Honoring ‘Good Trouble’

News Staff
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Squad leader Bill Craig, standing at left holding a 81mm mortar-sight box, was “flabbergasted” when he learned fellow veteran Bob Waechter (just behind his left shoulder in a white T-shirt) was joining local Marine Corps League Detachment 1280. In the photo aboard the troop ship USS Heron, both were headed to Vietnam with a mortar platoon as part of Headquarters & Service Company, 2nd Battalion of the 26th Marines. “It’s a small world,” Craig noted. (Contributed Photo)

Squad leader Bill Craig, standing at left holding a 81mm mortar-sight box, was “flabbergasted” when he learned fellow veteran Bob Waechter (just behind his left shoulder in a white T-shirt) was joining local Marine Corps League Detachment 1280. In the photo aboard the troop ship USS Heron, both were headed to Vietnam with a mortar platoon as part of Headquarters & Service Company, 2nd Battalion of the 26th Marines. “It’s a small world,” Craig noted. (Contributed Photo)

Vietnam veteran Bill Craig still serving in Marine Corps League

Mark Millican - Special to the Times-Courier
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
As a newly-arrived Marine in Vietnam, Bill Craig was walking patrol with his mortar unit when they decided to stop for lunch at an old concrete bunker used by French forces.
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Prepare as if no help is coming

Andy Ashurst - Publisher
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Gilmer County should plan to handle future severe weather events without outside assistance. This was the message Gilmer County Emergency Management Agency Director Aaron Freeman gave commissioners about changes at the Federal Emergency Management Agency during their work session July 16.
State, local and judicial leaders hold up a check for nearly half a million in grant funding for accountability courts in northwest Georgia. From left, Pickens County Sheriff Donald Craig, State Senator Steve Gooch, Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities Commissioner Kevin Tanner, Judge Brenda Weaver, Judge Alison Sosebee, State Representative Johnny Chastain and other state and local leaders.

State, local and judicial leaders hold up a check for nearly half a million in grant funding for accountability courts in northwest Georgia. From left, Pickens County Sheriff Donald Craig, State Senator Steve Gooch, Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities Commissioner Kevin Tanner, Judge Brenda Weaver, Judge Alison Sosebee, State Representative Johnny Chastain and other state and local leaders.

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Participants graduate drug court program and court receives grant

Jackson Elliott - Reporter
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Two years of group therapy and individual counseling, random drug testing, fee payments, court appearances and more are “worth it,” Taylor Born said. Born, an Appalachian Judicial Circuit Accountability Court graduate, was celebrating three years of sobriety Friday, July 18.
Clear Creek Middle School will be one of the Gilmer County schools impacted by new federal education grant withholdings.

Clear Creek Middle School will be one of the Gilmer County schools impacted by new federal education grant withholdings.

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Federal government withholds $547,530 from Gilmer schools

Jackson Elliott - Reporter
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
If recent federal education grant withholdings continue, Gilmer County Schools (GCS) would go into the school year without nearly $550,000. “That’s going to be a problem,” GCS Superintendent Dr. Brian Ridley said.