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COVID-19 Update

COVID-19 Update

COVID-19 numbers decreasing in Fannin County

Sydney Criteser
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Fannin County has seen an increase of 66 cases of COVID-19 over the last two weeks as of Monday, October 19. This brings the county’s total up to 780 positive cases since the pandemic began. Twenty-eight of those people who had contracted the virus have died, and 68 have been hospitalized.
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Gingerbread house builders invited to annual contest

Sydney Criteser
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Light Up Blue Ridge is calling all gingerbread house builders to enter Blue Ridge’s 4th Annual Gingerbread House Contest. Following judging, each house will be displayed in the Blue Ridge Gingerbread Village at the Blue Ridge Mountains Arts Association’s Art Center.
Feed Fannin volunteers harvested sweet potatoes Monday, September 28, at their farm on Ada Street in Blue Ridge. Shown are, from left, front, Dave Ricker, Lory Conte, Kathy Corey; back, Curt Hinnant, Priscilla Cashman, Sheryl Osborne and Toby, Catherine Sugg and Zora Herr.

Feed Fannin volunteers harvested sweet potatoes Monday, September 28, at their farm on Ada Street in Blue Ridge. Shown are, from left, front, Dave Ricker, Lory Conte, Kathy Corey; back, Curt Hinnant, Priscilla Cashman, Sheryl Osborne and Toby, Catherine Sugg and Zora Herr.

Feed Fannin buys local produce

Mollie Morrow
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
This past June, Feed Fannin began purchasing needed produce from local farmers. Although the organization produced some 7,500 pounds of food in their own garden, more was, and is, needed in order to keep Fannin County Family Connection’s food pantry stocked.
This graphic is what will appear on T-shirts to benefit Blue Ridge Chief of Police Johnny Scearce and wife Brenda.

This graphic is what will appear on T-shirts to benefit Blue Ridge Chief of Police Johnny Scearce and wife Brenda.

Shirts raising funds for Scearce and his family

Mollie Morrow
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Blue Ridge Police Department Captain Robbie Stuart has helped design T-shirts in honor of Blue Ridge Chief of Police Johnny Scearce. Scearce was transported to Memorial Hospital in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Tuesday, October 13, following complications.