CLEVELAND, Ga. – White County Emergency Services reported an extremely busy weekend. Administrative Firefighter Ana Newberry said firefighters responded to three structure fires, 10 medical assistance calls, seven motor vehicle accidents and 18 “other” calls, including lines down, trees down and/or public assistance calls from Friday through Sunday. At approximately 1 p.m. Friday, White County […]
Read More »Yonah Mountain Campground Fire Destroys RV
CLEVELAND, Ga. – The White County Fire Department, with automatic aid from the City of Cleveland, responded to an RV camper that caught fire Monday at Yonah Mountain Campground off Helen Highway. White County Public Safety Director David Murphy said upon arrival of the first fire units, the RV camper was fully involved and fire […]
Read More »First C.E.R.T. Class Met at Senior Center
CLEVELAND, Ga. – White County held the first in a series of Certified Emergency Response Training (C.E.R.T.) meetings Saturday. The meetings will be held on the last Saturday each month to help educate the citizens about disaster preparedness and train them in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, and […]
Read More »O’Bryant is Sole Finalist for Cleveland City Manager Job
CLEVELAND — White County Community and Economic Development Director Tom O’Bryant is the sole finalist for the position of Cleveland City Manager. The city received 29 applications for the position and interviewed four applicants before naming O’Bryant as the finalist. O’Bryant has been employed by the county since 2006. A city-issued press release said O’Bryant’s […]
Read More »Heroin Trafficking Organization Busted
DEMOREST, Ga. – Authorities say an 18-month investigation sparked by several heroin overdose incidents in Habersham, White and Banks counties resulted in the arrest of members of a major heroin trafficking organization Tuesday. The White County Sheriff’s Office, Habersham County Sheriff’s Office, Appalachian Regional Drug Enforcement Office and Georgia Department of Corrections K9 unit executed […]
Read More »School Board Works on Balancing Budget
CLEVELAND, Ga. — The White County School System is about one month and $11 million away from a balanced Fiscal Year ’18 budget. School Board members held a preliminary budget hearing Thursday which revealed schools have estimated expenditures of $65,411,417 in FY ’18 and estimated revenue of only $54,239,323. A second budget hearing is set for […]
Read More »After Settling a $2 Million Lawsuit Sentinel Probation is Back on White County Agenda
CLEVELAND, Ga. – Probation service fees can be very profitable to probation companies and very detrimental to the poor and elderly even if their violations are as minor as a traffic offense or violation of a county ordinance. Which is why area residents may want to attend the White County Board of Commissioners work session […]
Read More »Cleveland Man Leads State Patrol on a High- Speed Chase Through Rabun County
CLAYTON, Ga. – A Cleveland man led Georgia State Patrol and law enforcement units from Rabun County, Sky Valley and Dillard on a high-speed chase Thursday, reaching speeds of up to 100 mph before crashing his motorcycle as he attempted to turn right onto Ga. 246 headed toward Sky Valley. According to State Trooper 1st Class […]
Read More »Fire Destroys Home on Pine Brook Trail
CLEVELAND, Ga. – A fire at 38 Pine Brook Trail in White County completely destroyed a mobile home early Thursday morning but the occupants escaped unharmed. White County Public Safety Director David Murphy said in an email that White County Fire Services from Stations 2 and 3 responded to a 911 call at approximately 2:40 […]
Read More »No Injuries Reported in Two School Bus Accidents
CLEVELAND, Ga. — White County School Superintendent Dr. Jeff Wilson confirmed today that two White County school buses were involved in an accident Tuesday afternoon. “We had two buses rear ended about five minutes apart today,” said White County Superintendent of Schools Jeff Wilson. “There were students on both buses, but no […]
Read More »White Co. Firefighters Rescue Lost Hiker
CLEVELAND, Ga. — White County Public Safety Director David Murphy reported that rescuers from White County Fire, the Department of Natural Resources , White County EMS and Lumpkin County Fire worked for more than four hours to locate a lost hiker on the Tesnatee Gap trailhead near Cow Rock Mountain. They hiked in about 35 […]
Read More »White County Aids Towns Co. in Mountain Rescue
CLEVELAND, Ga. — One day after rescuing a lost hiker from a snow covered trail in the Cow Rock Mountain area White County firefighters were searching for an injured person on the Appalachian Trail near Unicoi Gap in Towns County. White County Public Safety Director David Murphy said temperatures were in the teens when the […]
Read More »No Injuries in White County House Fire
CLEVELAND, Ga. — White County and City of Cleveland fire departments responded to a residential fire at 377 Oglethorpe Lane in northern White County Wednesday afternoon. Upon arrival, firefighters were advised by the residents that they had pulled back the pinning to the mobile home and extinguished the fire with a garden hose. The residents […]
Read More »White County Monthly Financial Report
CLEVELAND, Ga. — White County’s Fiscal Year 2017 financial projections are ahead of schedule. Finance Director Vickie Mays presented a monthly report at Monday’s Board of Commissioners meeting. With five months still remaining in Fiscal Year 2017, the county has collected $12,299,352 or approximately 76 percent of its projected revenue of $16,299,730 and has spent […]
Read More »White County Man Charged with Battery, Cruelty to Children
CLEVELAND, Ga. — White County Sheriff’s Office arrested Richard Hansard, 32 of Sautee Sunday and charged him with two counts of battery and two counts of cruelty to children following an incident at his residence on Bean Creek Road in White County. According to the incident report, Cassidy Hansard, 30, was cleaning house and listening […]
Read More »Cleveland Residents Arrested in Drug Bust
CLEVELAND, Ga. — Following a two months long investigation, the White County Sheriff’s Office, Cleveland Police Department and the Appalachian Regional Drug Enforcement Office (ARDEO) arrested Cleveland residents Margarita Delagado, 32, and Martin Kyler Ferguson, 21, Friday and charged them with distribution of methamphetamine. Delgado was arrested by White County deputies early Friday morning as […]
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