By Dan Pool, Editor dpool@pickensprogress.com Over the years, several Georgia prison inmates have sent letters to this newspaper. Some are Pickens residents now incarcerated, and others may pick ...

Four Wedding and an Elvis opens February 20th By Nan Nawrocki Tater Patch I had the opportunity last week to go to a rehearsal of Four Weddings and an Elvis, by Nancy Frick. I was there to work on ...

By Dave Williams, Bureau Chief Capitol Beat News Service ATLANTA - State prisons chief Tyrone Oliver asked Georgia lawmakers ...

Spay/Neuter Certificate Sale February 8th at Tractor Supply Submitted by Be-Paws We Care “Spay it forward” is a way to ...

At their February meeting, Jasper Council approved dates for events including the Marble Festival, Downtown Live, ArtWalk ...

Submitted by the Jasper Optimist Club Pickens High School Senior Jeremy Westbrook has been named the school’s 2025 PAGE STAR ...

By Dave WilliamsBureau ChiefCapitol Beat News Service ATLANTA - Legislation named in honor of a Georgia nursing student murdered by an illegal immigrant Wednesday became the first bill signed into law ...

A developer with the new Publix shopping center has confirmed Chicken Salad Chick will locate in an outparcel there, and that ...

Music of the Impressionists from France and England will be presented on Monday January 27, 2025 as part of the Casual Classics 2024-2025 Concert Series. The performers are all first-chair performers ...

Atlanta, Ga – Following the recent detection of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in a commercial poultry flock in Elbert County, Georgia, Agriculture Commissioner Tyler Harper issued the below ...

Lucille McMullen, a resident at The Retreat in Jasper, celebrated her 104th birthday on Saturday, January 18th. McMullen is a Pickens native. who served as an army nurse during Wold War II and helped ...

Just a few weeks after a short-lived snow that turned Pickens into more of an ice-glazed wasteland than a snowy wonderland, north Georgia has been plunged back into even colder temps. As someone born ...