Opinion by George McClellan: Immediately after the attack in Nice, France by a frustrated muslim nut case driving a truck that killed eighty-four people including twelve children, the French Police, at all levels, immediately commenced raids of suspected mosques, homes and offices of potential Islamic suspects. French intelligence had laid the ground work long before […]
Read More »Mr. Timothy Lee Mulkey: Obituary
Mr. Timothy Lee Mulkey age 57 of Young Harris passed away peacefully on Wednesday August 10, 2016 in the Union General Hospital following a brief illness. Mr. Mulkey was born on Dec. 18, 1958 in Murphy, NC., the son of the late Walter Bunyon Mulkey and the late Minnie Virginia Shook Mulkey. He was a […]
Read More »Conservatives – The Endangered Species
Opinion by John Tutten: This is an open letter to the twenty-five or thirty percent of Republicans that can be considered solid Constitutional conservatives. I share your concern for how this 2016 election cycle has unfolded and for what may lie ahead for our nation. We had great hopes that given the last disastrous eight […]
Read More »Towns County Sheriff’s Office Arrest Report 7/24 to 7/31
The Georgia Open Records Act (O.C.G.A. 50-18-70) allows for www.fetchyournews.com to obtain and post the arrest records of any and all individuals arrested in Towns County. Those arrests are posted on www.fetchyournews.com for viewing pleasure. Please remember that all individuals listed have been arrested and charged, however, they are presumed innocent until guilt has been […]
Read More »Jane Miller Ross: Obituary
On Wednesday, July 27 at 4:05 p.m., Jane Miller Ross passed from this world to the next to be with her Lord in Heaven. She made the passage in the same manner in which she lived her life of more than ninety years here on Earth, with grace and dignity and, always, with a grateful […]
Read More »Joint Investigation leads to Arrest of Drug Trafficker
Appalachian Regional Drug Enforcement Office News Release For Immediate Release July 20, 2016 White County, GA On July 20, 2016 the White County Sheriff’s Office and the Appalachian Regional Drug Enforcement Office (ARDEO), during the course of an active drug trafficking investigation, arrested 44 year old Lars Prentice Johnson of Murphy, North Carolina. Johnson is […]
Read More »Mary Freda Garrett: Obituary
Mary Freda Garrett, age 82, of Hiawassee, Georgia passed away on Saturday, July 23, 2016. She was born to the late William A. and Grace (Calhoun) Chastain on July 14, 1934 in Macon County, NC. She was preceded in death by her husband, Nolen R. Garrett; daughter, Mary Connie Garrett; sisters, Juanita Baran and Margaret […]
Read More »Can Trump Do it?
Opinion by George McClellan: “Friends, delegates and fellow Americans” (Friends, Romans, Countrymen), “I accept your nomination…” What a way to start an acceptance speech. The Donald, not the most polished of public speakers, became one of the best Thursday night. He’s a doer not a talker, a producer, not a destroyer and he clearly laid […]
Read More »Mrs. Carolyn Bryson Stephens: Obituary
Mrs. Carolyn Bryson Stephens age 69 of Many Forks Rd. Young Harris passed away peacefully on Wednesday August 10, 2016 at her home following an extended illness. Mrs. Stephens was born on May 1, 1947 in Blairsville, GA., the daughter of the late John Bryson and the late Geneva Shepherd Bryson. She was a lifelong […]
Read More »Towns County Sheriff’s Office Arrest Report 7/31 to 8/7
The Georgia Open Records Act (O.C.G.A. 50-18-70) allows for www.fetchyournews.com to obtain and post the arrest records of any and all individuals arrested in Towns County. Those arrests are posted on www.fetchyournews.com for viewing pleasure. Please remember that all individuals listed have been arrested and charged, however, they are presumed innocent until guilt has been […]
Read More »Mrs. Marybelle Santangelo: Obituary
Marybelle Santangelo, age 73 of Cornelia passed away August 9, 2016. She was born in Gowanda, NY on September 06, 1942 to the late Ulysses G. and Pauline Sundown Scott. Mrs. Santangelo worked for the legal department of the Seneca Nation of Indians. She will be remembered as a Godly and loving woman who’s memory […]
Read More »Sheriff Re-elected to Georgia Sheriff’s Association’s Board of Directors
Pictured above L-R:Terry Norris, Executive Director, Georgia Sheriffs’ Association; Sheriff Chris Clinton; Lumpkin County Sheriff and president of the Georgia Sheriffs’ Youth Homes, Stacy Jarrard.
Read More »Mr. Elliott Sanders: Obituary
Mr. Elliott Sanders, age 82, of Hiawassee, passed away early Friday morning August 5, 2016 in Chatuge Regional Hospital in Hiawassee. Elliott was born on December 24, 1933 to the late Cecil Charles Sanders and Margaret Stroud Sanders, and nine brothers and sisters, of whom four are still living. Elliott was a quite man who […]
Read More »Mrs. Wilma Youngblood: Obituary
Mrs. Wilma Youngblood, age 74, of Young Harris, Georgia, passed away on Saturday, July 30, 2016 surrounded by her beloved family. Mrs. Youngblood was born October 20, 1941 in Young Harris, Georgia to the late Ralph and Louise Stephens. Wilma served as Deputy Clerk of Towns County for many years and attended Old Union Baptist […]
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From the Towns County Sheriff’s Desk
From the Sheriff’s Desk: As many will remember, in the last two years the former Appalachian Drug Task Force has grown from the original four counties and now covers a much larger area of North East Georgia. The new partnership includes the Sheriff’s Offices of Towns, White, Lumpkin, Rabun, Stephens, and Habersham Counties, Georgia State […]
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