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Parades, market kicking off Christmas season

Rose Scoggins
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
A host of Christmas-centered activities, including the annual Bowman and Elberton Christmas parades, will take place this weekend to kick off the holiday season. Bowman’s annual Mistletoe Market and Caroling on the Square will begin the festivities as it will be held Friday, Dec. 1 from 6 p.m.
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Bowman mayor elected, sworn-in, arrested

Rose Scoggins
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
By Rose Scoggins rscoggins@elberton.com   Within the span of four days, Scott Harpold was elected and sworn-in as the mayor of the City of Bowman and then arrested at city hall and charged with criminal trespass. Harpold was officially elected mayor Nov.
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Tax committee to make exemption recommendation

Rose Scoggins
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
The committee formed by the Elbert County Board of Commissioners (BOC) to study potential increased tax exemptions for senior citizens is scheduled to vote today on proposed sets of exemptions. At the end of the committee's last meeting, which was held Nov.
Dr. Jonathan Poon received the prestigious Degree of Fellow from the American Academy of Family Physicians, the organization announced in press release Sunday.

Dr. Jonathan Poon received the prestigious Degree of Fellow from the American Academy of Family Physicians, the organization announced in press release Sunday.

Poon receives prestigious fellow degree

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Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Dr. Jonathan Yung-Chi Poon, has achieved the Degree of Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the national medical association representing nearly 127,600 family physicians, residents and medical students, according to a press release from the organization.
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Three pronounced dead after Campbell Street Extension fire

Rose Scoggins
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Three people were pronounced dead by Deputy Coroner Beth Seymour following a house fire on Campbell Street Extension in the early morning hours of Nov. 11. According to Seymour, a call came in early that morning reporting the home, located at 1023 Campbell St. Extension was on fire.
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TSPLOST passes, Bowman elects new council member, mayor

Rose Scoggins
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Despite a low voter turnout across all elections, the county-wide transportation special purpose local option sales tax referendum (TSPLOST) and City of Bowman and City of Elberton elections saw a bag of mixed results during the Nov. 7 election.
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Vaughn named Clean Water Hero

Rose Scoggins
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Elbert County Board of Commissioners Chairman Lee Vaughn was named a Clean Water Hero through the Rural Georgia Protection Alliance Nov. 1 as part of the Georgia Water Coalition’s “Clean 13.
Elberton’s John N. “Pete” Anderson, 88, holds a photo of him taken aboard a ship at Fort Lewis, now Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Tacoma, Washington before being shipped off to Korea in 1958. (Photo by Scoggins)

Elberton’s John N. “Pete” Anderson, 88, holds a photo of him taken aboard a ship at Fort Lewis, now Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Tacoma, Washington before being shipped off to Korea in 1958. (Photo by Scoggins)

Anderson: ‘We played solider’ in Korea

Rose Scoggins
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
While the Korean War saw the height of its conflict while John N. “Pete” Anderson was in high school, he received a notice in the mail that he had been drafted into the United States Army when he was 23 years old.