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Reporters and professional journalists must not insert their own opinions or biases into their stories. (Sure, they do it all the time, but officially they can’t.) Not being an actual reporter or professional much of anything, I have the liberty to tell you to drop …
The 5th Ranger Training Battalion at Camp Merrill in Dahlonega is where America’s toughest soldiers get tougher during the Mountain Phase of Ranger School. Rangers are trained, assessed and retrained on individual and collective platoon-level Infantry tasks they’ll need to lead combat operations in mountainous environments anywhere …
Ever wondered what’s behind those big gates at Lake Lanier Islands but didn’t have the money to get in? Have they got a deal for you! Round up a few friends and head out to the spiffier-than-ever Lake Lanier Islands during the weekend of April …
If nine people get on a train in Gainesville and three get off in Toccoa and eleven people get off in Greensboro, does anyone really care? No. But if your kids are out fishing with three buck-tailed jigs, two nightcrawlers and a “broke-back” Rapala topwater lure, …
Our friends at the Lake Lanier Association (LLA) have held their annual meetings at a variety of places in recent years. For 2014, they’ve chosen the nicest spot yet: The Carriage House Pavilion at Lake Lanier Islands. The meeting is open to the public and …
Time to get your cluck on and make Chickenville — also known as Gainesville — proud! The 10th Annual Spring Chicken Festival Chicken Cook-Off in downtown Gainesville struts into town on Saturday, April 26th, from 10 am – 4 pm. Registration is underway for cook …
There’s a bit of Walter Mitty in us all. Who is he? According to the website who2.com: Walter Mitty appears in the short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, written by humorist James Thurber and published in The New Yorker in 1939. Mitty is …
Not many things are more fun than the Bear on the Square Mountain Festival in Dahlonega, and most of them are illegal anyway. The 18th Annual Bear on the Square lets loose on Saturday, April 26th and the cavorting doesn’t stop until late Sunday afternoon — …
Once a year, Trout Unlimited and Chattahoochee River Keepers round up volunteers to pick up trash left behind by irresponsible miscreants who believe that’s the way the world should work. At the risk of “enabling” slobs, more civilized citizens went into the woods to carry out …
According to its website, Rivers Alive is Georgia’s annual volunteer waterway cleanup event that targets all waterways in Georgia, including streams, rivers, lakes, beaches and wetlands. The mission of Rivers Alive — a Georgia Environmental Protection Division Outreach Program — is to create awareness of and …