Mike Denson Michael Gary Denson, 69, of Jasper, Georgia, passed away Monday, April 13, 2026 at Piedmont Mountainside Hospital. He was born July 16, 1956 to Will and Myrna Denson in Tate, Georgia. He ...

Submitted by KPB Keep Pickens Beautiful’s annual Greatest American Cleanup is well underway, and the community response has ...

Submitted by Pickens Historical Society Gerald Parker, a Pickens native and longtime Cherokee County educator, will offer ...

Among the more popular bills to pass out of the Georgia General Assembly last week was a measure that would make it more ...

Submitted by North Georgia Veterans Helping Veterans, Ltd. Local Veterans Organizations supported by the Cherokee Homeless Coalition will be conducting a count of the county’s Homeless population as ...

By Addison Curran We’ve all seen Girl Scouts selling their cookies outside of Kroger and Boy Scouts completing community service projects in Pickens. These are valuable scouting groups that have ...

The public is invited to a Jan. 13 open house to submit questions and learn more about the Highway 53 widening project, which will bring big changes along the route from Camp Road to Burnt Mountain ...

Submitted By Kathryn Maxwell 4-H and Youth Development Agent Seven Pickens County 4-H members joined more than 700 youth from across the state at the 2025 Georgia State 4-H Council, held June 20-22 at ...

It was terrible timing for the school system. The week voters began going to the polls for the latest extension of the education sales tax referendum (E-SPLOST), news broke that in 2019, the city of ...

By Chris Feldt, Contributing Writer photo/GSU Digital CollectionTesting the effects of radiation on trees in the early 1960s. Overhead map of the site. While the remains of some buildings are still ...

Former GBI Special Agent John Cagle, now Pickens Sheriff’s CID commander, will be featured on CNN’s Real Life Nightmares on Sunday, Nov. 13 at 9 p.m. In the episode, “Blood Mountain: The Hunting ...

Last week, a skit by comedian Druski that satirized Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk went viral. The skit, called “How Conservative Women in America ...