Celebrate the 4th of July at home with family and friends
–Nation’s leading fireworks manufacturer encourages fun, affordable home-style Independence Day celebrations–

FLORENCE, Ala. (June 16, 2010) – The Fourth of July is a day when all Americans can celebrate their independence. TNT Fireworks, the nation’s leading distributor of consumer fireworks and sparklers, would like [...]

AH-CHOO  -  POLLEN
By  Elaine K. Delcuze
Preservation Committee Member
How can something be so irritating and yet so vital to life?  I’m referring to pollen, now that my seasonal sniffles are over, my eyes have stopped watering, my voice is back, and plants are abloom around me.
According to the American Institute of Biological Sciences, native insect pollination [...]

ICL Kicks Off Summer Term with Ice Cream Social
The Institute for Continuing Learning at Young Harris College will sponsor an Ice Cream Social on Saturday, June 26, at 6:30 PM at the Grace Rollins Campus Restaurant. Plan to arrive early for dinner – the social is free, but dinner is $8.50 per person. YOU MUST [...]

From left: Lloyd Dunham, Donn Smith, Hal Calloway, Jerry Hobbs

Folks in Union County always welcome a performance by two native sons, Buck Buchannon and Nelson Thomas. The Union County Historical Society is pleased to present a concert by Buck and Nelson at The Old Courthouse on the Square in Blairsville on Friday, June 25 at 7:00 p.m.
Buck and Nelson are boyhood friends who grew [...]

Last year an old tradition was revived at The Old Courthouse on the Square in Blairsville: A singing convention was presented by the Union County Singing Convention and the Union County Historical Society.  Eighteen people were inducted into the Union County Pioneers Hall of Shaped-note music.  All who attended agreed that it was a rewarding [...]

By Jennifer Cordier, Preservation Committee Chair
A bright, sunny day greeted visitors and dignitaries during the ribbon cutting ceremony for the new interpretive center at the Georgia Mountain Research and Education Center. Dr. Jerry Arkin, Associate Dean of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Georgia, commended the staff of the Research Center and [...]

REVIEW OF JUST BETWEEN US
By
Brenda Kay Ledford
Davis, Tom.  JUST BETWEEN US.  Fayetteville, NC:  Old Mountain Press, Inc., 2010.  90 pages, trade paperback.  $14.00.  www.OldMountainPress.com.
JUST BETWEEN US, compiled by Old Mountain Press, includes poetry and prose by 70 writers.  North Carolina Writers’ Network-West members, Janice Townley Moore and Brenda Kay Ledford, have works in this anthology [...]

In the June 9 issue of the Smokey Mountain Sentinel, the writer of the “Somewhere in the Middle”  column seems to have veered away from the middle and drifted to the right.
Evidence of the the writer’s not-so-middle-of-the-road bias is found early on in the language she used.  The columnist states that Mr. Fitzgerald “blasted” the [...]

Leaning Left
Jim Fitzgerald
The ranking Republican on the Energy and Commerce Committee apologized to BP for what he called the “White House shakedown!” Representative Joe Burton from Texas, the man who would be in charge of the Energy and Commerce Committee if Republicans were in control of the House of Representatives, told BP officials that he [...]