PICKENS COUNTY NEWS & PRESS RELEASES
Checklist for Evacuation General Items: Cash or travelers - checks and coins (banks may close and ATMs may be inoperable) Credit cards: also make a copy of the back of your credit cards (the back has contact numbers you may need - especially if you lose them) Extra set of house keys and car keys... more | ||
Tater Patch Players summer production of Peter Pan will be opening soon. This is not the “fly by wire” show that has been performed elsewhere. It requires work on the part of the audience. You must try hard to become child-like. Learn to dream, to imagine, to soar through the air to Never Land o... more |  | |
The Pickens County 14 & under Girls Softball Team beat Temple 16-1 last night and advanced at the State Tournament in Adel, Georgia. They play Hawkinsville today at 2 p.m. Congratulations for being the first 14 & under girls softball team to go to the State Tournament. ... more |  | |
With a required physical out of the way, the Boy Scouts of Troop 288 are off to summer camp. Carl McCurdy, M.D. and Piedmont Physicians at Pickens met with the scouts on June 22 to provide complimentary check up exams. After giving each scout a clean bill of health, Dr. McCurdy and spoke to the grou... more |  | |
300 Students to begin at Appalachian Campus Some Chattahoochee Technical College students are starting back to class July 7 in a one of a kind 5-week summer session. More than 6,000 students have chosen to take advantage of the unique opportunity. With the new term calendar changes approaching, some students still had courses they needed ... more | ||
Chattahoochee Tech men’s basketball added to its 2011 signing class with forwards Jerrod Jenkins (South Cobb High School, Austell, Ga.) and Tyler Gordon (Shiloh High School, Snellville, Ga.). The pair, both 6-foot-5, brings the incoming class to eight signees, all from Georgia. Jenkins averaged 1... more |  | |
Today, our office began investigating the air conditioner thefts of two separate churches on the north end of Pickens County. Both thefts are actively being investigated by our Detectives and our Deputies have begun a heavy patrol of all churches throughout the county. If you have any information... more | ||
On May 24, 2011, “Santa Clause", disguised as Big Canoe resident, Bud Ison, paid a surprise visit to the Habitat for Humanity – Pickens County Board of Directors’ meeting. From his bag of goodies, “Santa Bud” pulled out a check for the largest single donation every given to the Pickens County Hab... more |  | |
Proceeds to benefit the American Red Cross - Download Brochure Don Gordon, Chairman of the Board of Dawson County's United Community Bank, retired at the age of 62 from an active role with the local bank in July 2004. He retained his role as Chairman of the bank's Board of Directors. He died of a heart attack at Sacred Heart Hospital in Destin, FL, just two wee... |  | |
On Thursday, June 23, Captain Ramón Medina of the United States Army Reserve presented Piedmont Mountainside Hospital and Mountainside Anesthesia Consultants with a flag from his most recent tour in Afghanistan. A nurse anesthetist with both the hospital and the U.S. Army Reserve, Medina made the pr... more |  | |
Chattahoochee Tech has announced its schedule for the 2011 men’s and women’s NJCAA Division I cross country season, which will include seven regular season meets. The Golden Eagles continue their trend of competing against the best runners in all levels of competition, traveling to the likes of the ... more | ||
Looking for a cheap way to upgrade your computer without buying a new system? Try adding more memory! Grab a screw driver and follow this easy how-to: 1) First, you'll have to figure out what type of memory your computer uses. Boot your computer up and go into the Set-up or BIOS menu, usually... more |  | |
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Tater Patch Players production of Peter Pan is coming to life, just like the characters in the story come to life in the imagination of the Darling children. Children, as we know, have "pretend" games that they play again and again. In the Darling household in Victorian London, the three children... more |  | |
July 8 - 31 Sharptop Arts Center The next Sharptop Art Gallery show is called, "Appalachian Splendor" and opens on July 8, 2011 -July 31,2011. This is their first vist to exhibit in our Gallery, so let’s give them a warm reception. WHO IS THE SAAG GROUP? SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN ARTIST GUILD is an umbrella organization of The Art C... more |  | |
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