Comer News

Nicholson Mayor Ronnie Maxwell gets a little support from his wife, Gale, on Tuesday night at the Nicholson Public Library as the votes are counted in the mayor's race.

Voters in 15 cities across Northeast Georgia will wrap up balloting today for mayors, city councilmen and board of education seats.

Madison County Freshman Academy FFA students present potted plants to residents of the Ty Cobb Health Care System.

Comer guitarist Chris Fleming, left, trades guitar licks on stage with Freddie Way Band members Rodney Cowart, center, and Brian Cowe.

An article published Tuesday on Page A1 about a new feed mill near Comer omitted the full identification of one of the sources, Marvin White, chairman of the Madison County Industrial Development Authority.

A Brenau University employee is charged with child molestation and sexual battery after an incident earlier this week that police say occurred at the address of the Brenau campus.

Madison County resident Grace Riley said the inaugural Danielsville Fall Festival got off to a "modest start" in 2000, but the event has grown a little each year since.

The $23 million chicken feed plant Columbia Farms has opened in Comer can produce up to 10,000 tons of feed a week.

Bobby Compton will bring his style of country music to the Madison County Agricultural Fair on Thursday night.

Decisions, decisions. About 1 p.m., my wife and I pulled into a trailer park north of Danielsville.

People enjoy the carnival rides at last year's annual Madison County Agricultural Fair in Comer.

The Cobb County Elections Board on Wednesday denied a challenge to the candidacy of Marietta City Council member Irvan Pearlberg.

The Madison County Pilot Club will sponsor a Child Safety Seat Check Day on Saturday in the parking lot of Ingles supermarket in Hull.

Byron Nash sweeps the concrete floor of B&B Tire Store in downtown Comer on an August afternoon during a work lull.

Scott Edwards of Fertile Crescent Farm puts some of his okra on display on Saturday at Bishop Park during the Athens Farmers Market.

William Merritt takes his turn down the waterfall in an inner tube at the state park.

Five sitting mayors will face election battles in November, with challengers qualifying by Friday's deadline to take on Comer Mayor William E. Burroughs and Danielsville Mayor Glenn Cross.

The days are numbered for The Lewis Family bluegrass-gospel group, of Lincolnton, Ga., but several family members are splitting off to form new musical acts.

Madison County Sheriff's Lt. John Smith sits at a desk Aug. 19 in the squad room, reviewing a list of civil papers to be served ranging from divorce documents to court subpoenas.

A poultry feed manufacturer plans to begin production two weeks ahead of schedule at a new plant that towers over Georgia Highway 72 near Comer and represents the first significant industrial project in Madison County in more than 20 years.