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Let’s pick up after one another

News Staff
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Hartwell has abundant blessings; a caring community, a strong work ethic, and natural beauty. Today I challenge you to protect that natural beauty. Our town can look messy.
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Leaving Afghanistan

News Staff
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
In the last couple of weeks there has been a lot of discussion of the US evacuation from Afghanistan. It is important to recognize that the evacuation took place under both the Trump and Biden administrations.
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Me and Myles: Two old newspaper guys had good times together

News Staff
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Myles Robert Godfrey and I were in diapers the first time we met. I think Myles had soiled his, but I didn’t say anything. After all, he was just a month-old. I was a year old. It was inevitable that Myles and I would see a lot of each other over the years.
Sparky, the family’s Treeing Walker hound, spies the fixings for Tallulah chocolate on the NeSmiths’ backyard deck in Habersham County.

Sparky, the family’s Treeing Walker hound, spies the fixings for Tallulah chocolate on the NeSmiths’ backyard deck in Habersham County.

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Time to crank the ice cream churn

Dink NeSmith
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
A childhood treat was going to a Howard Johnson’s restaurant, climbing on a stool and staring at the sign touting 28 flavors of ice cream. And trying not to drool while I decided which one to ask Myrtice Warren to scoop and stack on a sugar cone. The orange-roofed 28-flavors mecca on U.S.
Our 37th president Richard Nixon waving goodbye to Washington, D.C. on August 8, 1974, the day he was forced to resign due to the Watergate scandal.

Our 37th president Richard Nixon waving goodbye to Washington, D.C. on August 8, 1974, the day he was forced to resign due to the Watergate scandal.

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Richard M. Nixon elementary school

Patrick Fargason - Editor and Publisher
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
From an early age, I would consider myself a connoisseur of presidential history. In the summer of 1984, my family took a vacation to Washington, D.C. where my parents purchased me a set of presidential fact cards from the Smithsonian.
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AgGeorgia Farm Credit to pay $7.8 million to membership

News Staff
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
AgGeorgia Farm Credit is disbursing $7,828,920 to current and former borrowers of the cooperative. Members who held loans with AgGeorgia in 2016 will receive a portion of this payout, with checks expected to be mailed the first week of July.
Photo by Scott Rodgerson

Photo by Scott Rodgerson

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DUI suspect charged with homicide

News Staff
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
The allegedly-impaired driver from the River Point Community Church van crash has been charged with vehicular homicide and released on bail. Barry Thomas Clark, 64, of Hartwell was first arrested on June 29, the day of the crash at Highway 365 and Demorest-Mt. Airy Highway.
From left to right: Bill, Sheri, and Bret Cesak at one of Workout Anytime’s locations.

From left to right: Bill, Sheri, and Bret Cesak at one of Workout Anytime’s locations.

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Father-son duo to bring new gym to Hartwell

Rachel Black - Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
A new gym, Workout Anytime, is coming to Hartwell this fall–a gym that father-son duo Bill and Bret Cesak, franchise partners, trust will provide a welcoming environment to encourage everyone to achieve their fitness goals.
Good news for United HealthCare members in Hartwell. Sacred Heart Hospital in Lavonia will remain in the UHC Network.

Good news for United HealthCare members in Hartwell. Sacred Heart Hospital in Lavonia will remain in the UHC Network.

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Sacred Heart Hospital remains in network for UHC members

Patrick Fargason - Editor and Publisher
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Lavonia’s Sacred Heart Hospital remains in network for patients with United Health Care (UHC) insurance despite its parent hospital St. Mary’s in Athens are now out of network as the system works to negotiate a new agreement with UHC. The agreement between St.