CLEVELAND,Ga. – Do you need assistance with your job search or additional training to update your skill set? Help is available. Visit the Career Coach soon to: Search and apply for jobs Write resumes and cover letters Take career surveys and assessments Learn and practice workforce skills Learn about WIOA funded training opportunities The Career […]
Read More »Cleveland man charged with battery, false imprisonment
CLEVELAND, Ga. — White County deputies arrested Mark Dwayne Sorrows, 40 of Cleveland last week and charged him with the battery and false imprisonment of his girlfriend Nicole Marie Martin, 28. An unidentified motorist following the vehicle Sorrows was driving observed him beating and punching a female passenger near the intersection of Duncan Bridge Road […]
Read More »Georgia unemployment rate reaches all-time low
ATLANTA — State Labor Commissioner Mark Butler said Wednesday that Georgia’s unemployment rate fell in October to tie the state’s all-time low, matching a record set nearly 20 years ago. That record wasn’t the only one set in October. Georgia also set new highs for jobs and employment. Several job sectors set records as well. […]
Read More »Rep. Collins receives Advocate of Hope Award
WASHINGTON—Prison Fellowship, the nation’s largest outreach to prisoners, former prisoners, and their families, and a leading advocate for criminal justice reform, presented the 2019 Charles Colson Advocate of Hope Award to Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) for their work on the FIRST STEP Act and its eventual passage in December of […]
Read More »Sautee woman charged with jewelry theft
WHITE COUNTY, Ga. — Rhonda Black, 40, of Sautee was arrested Nov. 21 and charged with stealing more than $7,000 worth of jewelry from a residence on Mill Creek Drive in White County. Melanie Black first noticed a sapphire ring missing as she was getting dressed to go to a funeral on Nov. 16. After […]
Read More »Congress passes Collins’ bill to expand health care coverage
WASHINGTON — Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga) released the following statement after the House passed H.R. 3224, the Deborah Sampson Act, which includes the Newborn Care Improvement Act. “Women serving in the armed forces put their lives on the line to defend our freedom, and the very least we can do is ensure these service members […]
Read More »White County needs 175 census takers in 2020
PRESS RELEASE White County, Ga. — The U.S. Census Bureau is currently hiring Census Takers for the 2020 Census and will be holding three recruiting sessions on Wednesday Dec. 11 in White County. Starting pay for Census Takers is $17 an hour plus 58 cents a mile for mileage reimbursement. White County needs about 175 […]
Read More »J.W. Reed’s fire appears to have been an electrical fire
CLEVELAND, Ga. – Monday afternoon Edward Ward stood and surveyed what remains of J.W. Reed’s Tavern, the business he has owned since 1994. The landmark restaurant was completely destroyed by fire Sunday morning. Asked about rebuilding, Ward said he has not decided. “I’m 61 years old so I don’t know if that is something I […]
Read More »Rep. Collins critical of IG Horowitz’s FISA report
“FISA’s original intent was to protect Americans from surveillance abuses, but this critical tool was abused for political gains ahead of the 2016 election. Those at the pinnacle of our national security community lost the objectivity they are required to exercise. I’m deeply concerned the report’s conclusion indicates there isn’t bias when that is so […]
Read More »GSP preparing for busy Thanksgiving Holiday weekend
ATLANTA –The 102-hour Thanksgiving holiday travel period begins at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 27, and ends at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 1. “Reducing traffic crashes, deterring and correcting bad driving behaviors, and making the roadways safer is our job,” said Colonel Mark McDonough, Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Safety. “To make […]
Read More »WCHS student charged with making terroristic threats
CLEVELAND, Ga. – A White County High School student was arrested last week and charged with making terroristic threats against another student and teachers at the school. Christian Isiah Adir Gholston, 18, was taken into custody after Assistant Principal Adam Wiley reported the incident to the White County Sheriff’s Office. Kayla Frederick, a teacher at […]
Read More »Prisoner escapes from White County patrol car
Press Release CLEVELAND, Ga. — On Sat. (Dec. 7) at around 2 a.m., White County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to 726 Luther Palmer Rd. to follow up on an assault report that had occurred earlier in the evening. While at the scene deputies arrested Brandon Lee Webster age 25. While Webster was in the backseat […]
Read More »Gov. Kemp announces Fall Severe Weather Preparedness Day
News Release ATLANTA — Governor Brian Kemp, in coordination with the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency and the National Weather Service, is declaring Nov. 6, as Georgia’s Fall Severe Weather Preparedness Day and encouraging schools, businesses and individuals to take part in the severe weather exercise/tornado test at 9:30 am. “Hurricane season is […]
Read More »Freeze warning in effect in north Georgia tonight
The National Weather Service in Peachtree Corners has issued a freeze warning beginning at 11 p.m. today and lasting until 10 a.m. Friday for north central, northeast, northwest and west central Georgia for the following counties, Dawson, Lumpkin, White, Dade, Walker, Catoosa, Whitfield, Murray, Fannin, Gilmer, Union, Towns, Chattooga, Gordon, Pickens, Floyd, Bartow, Cherokee, Forsyth, […]
Read More »Cleveland man charged with battery after domestic dispute
CLEVELAND, Ga. – A 40-year-old Cleveland man was charged with battery after a verbal dispute with his wife turned violent last week. Deputies with the White County Sheriff’s Office were called to a mobile home at 2802 Hwy. 115 West Sept. 5 by Allison Brown who said she and her husband Robert Davidson Brown had […]
Read More »Commissioners approve four road improvement projects
CLEVELAND, Ga. – The White County Board of Commissioners approved four road improvement projects at Monday’s Board of Commissioners meeting totaling $118,920 and the purchase of a bucket truck for the Public Works Department for $55,900. Commissioners worked through a very lengthy agenda in fairly short order. The vote on the road projects was 4-0. […]
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