Blue Ridge City Council has invited property owners within Blue Ridge city limits to a public meeting on Monday, October 10th at 10 am, Tuesday, October 11th at 6 pm or October 18th at 10 am. The October 11th meeting will coincide with Blue Ridge City Council’s monthly meeting. According to the city’s press release […]
Read More »FCMS Assistant Principal Kidnapped by Rogue 7th Grade Teacher
A sleeper cell of criminals was uncovered last Tuesday at Fannin County Middle School. Reports of FCMS Assistant Principal Tony Tichler’s kidnapping began Tuesday afternoon. School officials and students involved pointed to one of the seventh grade teachers as being the likely culprit. Later that day, Fannin County Sheriff Dane Kirby made public the ransom […]
Read More »Everyone, Not Just Students, Invited to PROBE Fair
Deciding which college or university is best for your personality, finances and what you want to study is a complicated decision. You can have help from counselors, trade schools, colleges and universities at the PROBE fair at FCHS. Your college decision immediately affects your next two or four years. This decision will affect your job […]
Read More »School Board Repudiates Rumors Set Forth by Fannin Focus
Southern A&E’s CEO and the project’s civil engineer explain the building site to Fannin County Board of Education. At their Oct. 13th meeting, Fannin County School Board spent a good deal of time repudiating rumors set forth by Fannin Focus that the new site for the Agriculture and Environmental Sciences facility is unfit for construction […]
Read More »Kids Were Hanging Off the Wall at EFES Fall Festival
The goal was to raise $5,000 for East Fannin Elementary School. The ways to get there were a mixture of highly creative, like tossing Velcro-suited kids onto a wall and picking prizes out of a nose, to reliable standbys, like face-painting and cake-walks. The largest fund-raising draw was from the premier year of the East […]
Read More »Sept. 27th Fannin BOC: Updating Fannin’s Future, Tax Negotiations, Missing County Property and Unfulfilled Requests
Fannin’s Future An opportunity for everyday Fannin voters to influence the economic, environmental and community well-being for the next twenty years surfaced at the Board of Commissioners Sept 27th meeting. The Board of Commissioners is looking for seven people to appoint to the Fannin County Comprehensive Plan Committee. These seven will join with representatives from […]
Read More »Tourists Dismembered at Kiwanis’ Fright Nights
Fannin County High School drama students are among the perpetrators and victims According to Kiwanis Past-President Forrest Hamm, Jones, former owner of the Kiwanis Fairground Property during the early 1900’s, didn’t take a liking to train tourists trampling through his property on the way from the train in downtown Blue Ridge to sip the […]
Read More »Fannin Teacher of the Year: Ashley Sparks from EFES
Ashley Sparks, 5th grade language arts and reading teacher at EFES, is Fannin County School System’s Teacher of the Year. Sparks sees her students as the product of all teachers at EFES, not just a product of herself or a particular grade. Sparks taught her current fifth graders in first- and third-grade. This year, […]
Read More »Cohutta Wildfire Creeps to 85-Acres Wide
Aerial view of the Rough Ridge Trail fire on Oct. 25th. Photo courtesy of United States Forest Service Ten days after starting, the Cohutta wildfire now encompasses 85 acres. The fire is located in a remote section of the Cohutta wilderness approximately 1.5 miles north of Three Forks trailhead on the east side of Rough […]
Read More »No Compromise in Angie Arp’s City Park
In late September, the City Council brought together representatives of eight different groups to find a compromise solution about placement of the playground equipment at the City Park. The playground equipment design and installation firm had said that the equipment could fit in either side of the city park: the north side bounded by Church […]
Read More »FCSS Superintendent Henson “Totally Opposes” Amendment 1 on Nov. Ballot
Amendment 1 asks voters to make a change in Georgia’s Constitution so the Executive Branch of Georgia’s government, at this time Gov. Deal, can take over school districts that the Governor defines as “chronically failing public schools. In an interview with FetchYourNews on Oct. 13th, FCSS Superintendent Mark Henson said he “totally opposes” Amendment 1 […]
Read More »Poll Watching for Voter Fraud in Georgia
November 8th, the day the dead rise from the grave to vote and someone in Siberia or Cincinnati will be hacking into the voting machines to change election outcomes – so say some of the ideas surrounding this year’s presidential elections. FetchYourNews checked with Mary Ann Conner and Chuck Cook of the Fannin County Board […]
Read More »Howling in the West Fannin Woods
Howl organizer Jessica Cusick_Hatchett with Susan Cokley Heartwood held its Halloween Howl on Saturday, Oct. 15th. Now in its third year, the Howl gives kids a chance to spin their own ghost tales around an open fire, traverse a spooky-scary, young-kid friendly, haunted trail ending in a monster mash. Before dark, the kids rotated through […]
Read More »Who Will Be Fannin’s Next Rec Director?
After the unsurprising resignation on Oct. 4th of John Scalera as Director of Fannin County Recreation Department, the county is on the hunt for a replacement. Currently, Fannin Recreation Department’s Eddie O’Neal is serving as interim director. O’Neal is also the athletic director for Fannin County. County hiring practices have been at the center of […]
Read More »Trash Stats on the Toccoa
Trout Unlimited’s Beth Skillman (left) and Lynn Brincks (right) stand in front of the trash volunteers hauled out of the Toccoa. In earlier years, the trash haul from the Toccoa included a partially submerged sofa, washing machine, toilet, buggy, tires so laden with silt that they had to be dug out of the river […]
Read More »Chamber of Commerce Goes to School
Chamber Board checks out the three-dimensional beating heart, one of the biology lessons on Z-Space Chamber of Commerce members take an anatomy lesson on Z-Space, the virtual reality technology which Fannin County School System obtained through ESPLOST funding. At this time, only FCMS has Z-Space. A future goal of the school system is obtaining […]
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