• Board of Commissioners to Meet Monday

    CLEVELAND, Ga. –The White County Board of Commissioners will hold a combined work session and regular meeting on Monday, March 27 at 4:30 p.m. in the Board Room of the White County Administration Building, 1235 Helen Highway. Commissioners will: Consider a proclamation to Enotah Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) declaring April 2017 as Child Abuse […]

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  • County Announces Storm Cleanup Plan

    CLEVELAND, Ga. – White County is implementing an Emergency Debris Management Plan to help county residents clean up after the storm that swept through the county. Residents who live in the unincorporated area of the county who have vegetative debris on their property that needs to be disposed of, can help the cleanup process by […]

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  • Feeding, Shower Facility Open Today at WCMS

    CLEVELAND, Ga. – White County Public Safety Director David Murphy announced that the White County Middle School, 283 Old Blairsville Road, will be open again today as a feeding and shower facility from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. It will reopen from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. Anyone without power and are in need of […]

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  • Fall Injures Woman on Smith Creek Trail

    HELEN, Ga. – An unidentified 53-year-old female suffered a broken ankle Saturday while hiking along Smith Creek Trail in Unicoi State Park just north of Helen and had to be airlifted by a Department of Natural Resources helicopter. Georgia Department of Natural Resources spokesman Mark McKinnon said, “Because of how rugged the terrain is we […]

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  • White County Man Charged With Battery and Cruelty to Children

    CLEVELAND, Ga. – Troy Lee Knight, 35, of Cleveland was arrested Friday and placed in the White County Detention Center charged simple battery, cruelty to children and criminal trespass following a domestic altercation at 3058 Lothridge Road. Betty Knight told deputies her husband was addicted to methamphetamine and, following a verbal argument, he slapped her […]

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  • Homeless Man Charged With Assault, Battery

    CLEVELAND, Ga. – Michael Anthony Jones, 34, of Portland, Maine, has been charged with aggravated assault by strangulation and simple battery, following an altercation at 376 Brianwood Drive in Cleveland last week. According to the police report, Stephen Campbell told White County deputies he and Jones were involved in a verbal argument and that Jones […]

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  • Dems Stage Protest Outside Rep. Doug Collins’ Office

    GAINESVILLE, Ga –Bullhorns and chants of “What do we want? Healthcare! When do we want it? Now!” broke the silence outside 9th District Congressman Doug Collins office Tuesday morning as Democrats from across north Georgia protested the congressman and his support for the American Health Care Act. One of the protest organizers, Marie Head of […]

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  • Public Safety Director Presents His Department’s Annual Report

    CLEVELAND, Ga. – The White County Board of Commissioners held a two-and-a-half hour work session and called meeting Monday. Public Safety Director David Murphy presented his office’s 2016 annual report during the work session. The Department of Public Safety oversees Animal Control, Emergency Management Agency, E911 Communications and Fire Services. Significant accomplishments in the Animal […]

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  • White County Man Is Charged With Aggravated Assault with Deadly Weapon

    CLEVELAND, Ga. – White County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested Jeffrey Kidd, 50, of 4732 Town Creek Road last week and charged him with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon following a domestic dispute with his wife Frances Kidd, 54. When deputies arrived at the scene, the observed Ms. Kidd trying to leave the scene. According […]

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  • James Lyn Holcomb Indicted for Murder

    CLEVELAND, Ga. — The Cleveland man who struck and killed 3-year-old Easton Levi Cain with his pickup truck in the Ingles parking lot was indicted by a White County Grand Jury Tuesday. Thirty-six-year-old James Lyn Holcomb was indicted on three counts of first degree vehicular homicide, reckless driving, driving with an expired license and no […]

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  • Fire Damages Blue Ridge Apartments

    CLEVELAND, Ga. — Cleveland Fire Chief Ricky Pruitt reports that two apartments at the Blue Ridge Apartments on Bryant Street were damaged by fire Sunday evening. Pruitt said firefighters were dispatched around 7 p.m. Sunday and that a crockpot left on a stove burner was the cause of the fire. All occupants escaped the fire […]

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  • Gainesville Woman Arrested at Helen Motel

    HELEN, Ga. –Tammy Kay Leonard, 47, of Gainesville was arrested at a motel room in Helen Wednesday and charged with possession of a controlled substance and drug related objects. Acting on a tip, the Helen Police Department obtained a search warrant that resulted in the seizure of more than five ounces of methamphetamine with a […]

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  • City of Helen to get huge refund from Georgia Power

    HELEN, Ga. – Just in time to brighten everyone’s Christmas, Helen City Manager Jerry Elkins reported this week that the city will receive nearly $200,000 in cash and services from Georgia Power Company as a result of the utility’s overbilling the city over the past couple of years. Elkins said city officials have been working […]

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