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City council starts process for pay raise

Rose Scoggins
Wednesday, November 4, 2020
Elberton’s mayor and council members may get a pay raise in 2022 if an ordinance placed on first reading at Monday night’s meeting is approved.  The ordinance suggests the mayor, who is now paid $6,000 per year, would receive a $2,400 increase to total $8,400 per year.
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Early vote record broken

Rose Scoggins
Wednesday, November 4, 2020
Elbert County was on par with the state of Georgia’s high early voter turnout by totaling votes from over 50 percent of registered voters through early in-person or through absentee ballots for Tuesday’s General Election according to Registrar Melissa Shead.
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No phase 2 funding for local governments

Rose Scoggins
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
The City of Bowman, along with the City of Elberton and Elbert County, will no longer receive phase two or three funding from the CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security) Act as it will be turned over to the Georgia Department of Labor to help balance the high costs accrued from...
A new look at Athens Technical College’s Elberton campus...classrooms, laboratories and an arena building are scheduled to be completed in August of 2021. (Photo by Jones)

A new look at Athens Technical College’s Elberton campus...classrooms, laboratories and an arena building are scheduled to be completed in August of 2021. (Photo by Jones)

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New construction begins at Athens Tech

Gary Jones
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Athens Technical College’s (ATC)Elberton campus’ is going through changes that can’t be seen from Athens Highway, so the general public might not be aware of the $8.2 million construction project in progress.
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‘Enormity’

Gary Jones
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Tuesday morning Senior Judge of Superior Courts David Sweat asked Sweet City Landfill and Elbert County attorneys to file more briefs on the most recent lawsuit Sweet City has filed against the county in its quest to get a special use permit to build a landfill.
Ringing the bell ... Kelly Gary said she ‘felt so loved’ during a two-year process that allowed her to beat breast cancer.

Ringing the bell ... Kelly Gary said she ‘felt so loved’ during a two-year process that allowed her to beat breast cancer.

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Two years after diagnosis, Gary still cancer-free

Rose Scoggins
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Kelly Gary is a mom, a teacher, a lifelong Elbert County native and, for the past two years, a breast cancer survivor.  Gary was hanging Christmas decorations in 2017 when she felt a lump under her arm.
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One-fourth of county’s voters have voted

Rose Scoggins
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Almost one-fourth of Elbert County’s registered 12,995 voters have voted early in-person or through absentee ballots as of Monday according to the Elbert County Registrar’s Office.
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Free COVID-19 testing back in Elberton

Gary Jones
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
The Northeast (Georgia) Health District began free testing again in Elbert County, and the district’s mobile testing unit will be at the Ingles parking lot (old store) side through Friday, Oct. 30. The testing will be conducted from 8:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. every weekday through Friday, Oct. 30.