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A water quality award to Copperhill Industries from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) has local leaders asking the recognition be rescinded.

A water quality award to Copperhill Industries from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) has local leaders asking the recognition be rescinded.

Officials outraged by water quality award

Glenn Harbison
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
A water quality award to Copperhill Industries from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) has local leaders asking the recognition be rescinded.
Dawn Heaton, back to camera, alerts school officials to a problem detected by the new weapons detection system at Fannin County High School. No weapons were found when students were checked for the first time last Wednesday morning. In the case above, as was true in many instances, the system alerted on binders that had been left in backpacks. Because backpacks are clear, they did not have to be emptied for school officials to determine the problem.

Dawn Heaton, back to camera, alerts school officials to a problem detected by the new weapons detection system at Fannin County High School. No weapons were found when students were checked for the first time last Wednesday morning. In the case above, as was true in many instances, the system alerted on binders that had been left in backpacks. Because backpacks are clear, they did not have to be emptied for school officials to determine the problem.

Detection system another layer of student safety

Mollie Morrow
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Weapons detection systems are up and running at Fannin County High School. They were also scheduled to make their debut at the middle school yesterday, August 12, and go into operation at the elementary schools August 14.
Adeline Beavers, Lyla Webb, Fannin County High School paraprofessional Maddie Mitchum, and Eleanor Hodgson, from left, served a meal at the Ronald McDonald House in Atlanta as part of a Family Career and Community Leaders of America project. The meal included cookies donated by the Sweet Shoppe of the South.

Adeline Beavers, Lyla Webb, Fannin County High School paraprofessional Maddie Mitchum, and Eleanor Hodgson, from left, served a meal at the Ronald McDonald House in Atlanta as part of a Family Career and Community Leaders of America project. The meal included cookies donated by the Sweet Shoppe of the South.

FCCLA project gives hope, love to families in need

Glenn Harbison
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
A family experience years ago inspired a member of the Fannin County High School chapter of Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) to prepare and serve a meal for families staying at the Ronald McDonald House in Atlanta.
A family meets Calder the Reading Dog at the Fannin County Public Library. From left are Joshua Potters, Brian Potters and Isabella Potters.

A family meets Calder the Reading Dog at the Fannin County Public Library. From left are Joshua Potters, Brian Potters and Isabella Potters.

Calder offered reading help at Fannin library

Jackson Elliott
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
He’s a finder of lost teeth, lost people, lost glasses and more. But today Calder the rough collie is Calder the Reading Dog. Along with his owner Bill Hall and handler Lois Hall, Calder provided reading help to children at Fannin County Public Library (FCPL) Thursday, August 7.
Tuff Born is shown happy and healthy as can be with his family, from left, father Jake, sister Baker and mother Michaela.

Tuff Born is shown happy and healthy as can be with his family, from left, father Jake, sister Baker and mother Michaela.

Tuff Born living proof that miracles still happen

Mollie Morrow
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Some say miracles don’t happen any more, but a miracle can be seen frolicking around Fannin County parks or football fields almost any given day. That miracle is two-year-old Tuff Born, the son of Jake and Michaela.
Thomas Harley Golden after his release from prison in May.

Thomas Harley Golden after his release from prison in May.

Manhunt continues

Glenn Harbison
Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Law enforcement authorities across the area were continuing their search early this week for Thomas Harley Golden, 39, who was considered armed and dangerous following an alleged attack in Fannin County Monday morning, July 28.
University of North Georgia (UNG) nursing students Lydia Bryan, left, and Makayla Patton demonstrate the state of the art “patient” that will be used in the nursing program at the UNG Blue Ridge Campus. The demonstration was part of the ribbon cutting event for the David E. Ralston Hall.

University of North Georgia (UNG) nursing students Lydia Bryan, left, and Makayla Patton demonstrate the state of the art “patient” that will be used in the nursing program at the UNG Blue Ridge Campus. The demonstration was part of the ribbon cutting event for the David E. Ralston Hall.

Georgia came to Blue Ridge for Ralston Hall ribbon cutting

Glenn Harbison
Tuesday, August 5, 2025
David Ralston made Georgia come to Blue Ridge last Wednesday, July 30, just as he had done countless times during his years of service under the Gold Dome in Atlanta.
Thomas Frontcakas

Thomas Frontcakas

Plea deal includes banishment for attacks on police vehicles

Glenn Harbison
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Thomas Andrew Frontcakas has 30 days to get out of the Appalachian and Enotah judicial circuits and never come back or face the next 180 days in jail. Frontcakas is banished from the two local judicial circuits as the result of his guilty plea entered in Fannin County Superior Court last week.