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Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Local closings and hours changes due to virus

News Staff
Wednesday, March 18, 2020

This is not a complete list. Please check with your church or any business you wish to patronize before making the trip. More businesses and agencies are changing their hours or closing everyday.

The front page of the April 2, 1920 edition of The Sun included two articles about battling disease, echoing today's current situation.

#ThrowbackThursday

News Staff
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

April 1, 1955

Two deadly diseases topped the headlines this week in 1955, echoing the global pandemic worries of today.

Sunshot by Michael Hall

Free pizza produces smiles

News Staff
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Lentravious Geer, right, hands a pepperoni pizza from Little Caesar’s Pizza in Hartwell to Mason Sanders on Tuesday, March 31.

Sunshot by Michael Hall -- Darius Hunt, left, brings in carts from the parking lot at Quality Foods in Hartwell on Tuesday, March 31, as Kelsie Dean, right, cleans them to disinfect them as part of the store’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

First cases hit Hart

Grayson Williams
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Hart County joined the growing number of counties in Georgia infected by the novel coronavirus as the first four cases of COVID-19 were reported in the county over the past week, coming on the heel