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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The city’s Downtown Development Authority began 2025 at a Monday meeting by electing officers and discussing a wide slate of ...

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 ...

Simply Decorated Business of the Year; Shaye Young Chamber Ambassador of the Year Last Saturday, the Pickens County Chamber ...

ATLANTA – Legislation named in honor of a Georgia nursing student murdered by an illegal immigrant Wednesday became the first bill signed into law by President Donald Trump. The Laken Riley Act ...