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Study on housing insecurity

News Staff
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church is doing a yearlong study of housing insecurity, starting in our fall Bible Study Christian Formations series:  “The Son of Man Has Nowhere to Lay His Head.  What Shall We Do About That?”  In our first session, we had 26 questions.
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A flood of immigrants

News Staff
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
When the Biden/Harris administration came into power the borders of the United States were secure, and only a trickle of people testing were our borders. Neither the Congress nor the Supreme Court did anything to change this.
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Mordecai: ‘You’re not supposed to stay dumb for 99 years’

News Staff
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Mordecai Wilson was relaxing in his recliner when we arrived at his home in Lula, a town of about 3,000 in northeast Georgia. I had never met the man, although I’d read several of his letters in a newspaper, words encouraging people to follow God and do the right thing.
Photo by NASA

Photo by NASA

Big magnet energy

Patrick Fargason - Editor and Publisher
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
An urban legend is defined as a genre of folklore concerning stories about a sometimes scary event that many people believe to be true but largely are not. As a writer and storyteller, I love a good urban legend. Take the Boston Red Sox infamous ‘Curse of the Bambino,’ for example.
Photo by American Public Power Association

Photo by American Public Power Association

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Gratitude for our linemen

News Staff
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, which swept through Hart County the destruction was palpable. Fallen trees and widespread power outages left our community reeling.
Elberton’s Jaukeem Fortson

Elberton’s Jaukeem Fortson

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Elberton’s Fortson to appear on NBC’s The Voice

News Staff
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
By Mark Wells The Elberton Star Local singing sensation Jaukeem Fortson will appear in the upcoming season of NBC’s “The Voice.” Fortson recently won the grand prize of $20,000 after finishing first out of 10 finalists in the fourth annual Hallelujah Auditions held in Burlington, Iowa May 18.
Traffic was backed up for miles on I-85 in Hart County Sept. 26 following two separate wrecks minutes apart that involved two semi trucks.

Traffic was backed up for miles on I-85 in Hart County Sept. 26 following two separate wrecks minutes apart that involved two semi trucks.

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Storm conditions lead to crashes, overturned semi

Rachel Black - Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Around 3:45 p.m. last Thursday, Sept. 26, two crashes involving semi trucks led to traffic buildup on I-85 and sent three to the hospital as Hurricane Helene geared up.
While crops in Hart County saw minimal damage from Helene, cotton crops in Bulloch County were completely destroyed.

While crops in Hart County saw minimal damage from Helene, cotton crops in Bulloch County were completely destroyed.

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Hart County agriculture ‘dodged huge bullet’ from Helene

Rachel Black - Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Hurricane Helene, which left a barrage of destruction in its wake after making landfall in Florida last week, has left minimal damage on Hart County’s agriculture despite disastrous impacts on farms elsewhere in Georgia. “Our biggest row crops are corn and soybeans and...
Hart County’s first responders and residents come together to clean up storm debris and downed power lines along Lightwood Rd. Friday following Hurricane Helene. Photo by Bill Powell/The Hartwell Sun

Hart County’s first responders and residents come together to clean up storm debris and downed power lines along Lightwood Rd. Friday following Hurricane Helene. Photo by Bill Powell/The Hartwell Sun

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Helene greets Hart County with down trees and power lines

Patrick Fargason - Editor and Publisher
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Hurricane Helene, the deadly Category 4 storm which made landfall in Steinhatchee, FL Sept. 26, worked it’s way through Hart County last Friday. Around 7 a.m. that morning, Helene’s eye passed right over Hartwell’s downtown square.