Demorest News

Published: Friday, October 9, 2009 at 12:30 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, October 9, 2009 at 12:30 p.m. To The Editor: Recently, two of the four "letters" were from other states: Jim Conrey of Demorest, Ga., and Edward Milton Ventresca of Canyon Country, Calif.

A Habersham County man was killed in a wreck in Houston, Texas. A spokesman for Whitfield Funeral Home in Demorest confirmed that Nathaneal James "Nate" Nicholson, 32, died Monday as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident.

Thousands of veterans who returned to college under the Post-9/11 GI Bill will have access to emergency aid this week to help them pay their bills until their expected aid arrives.

The Quad City Symphony Orchestra is proud to announce Melinda Hubbell as its new Director of Education and Community Engagement.

CORNELIA a ' Two women were killed and a child injured in a crash in Cornelia Friday afternoon.

Officials with the City of Lula found out Tuesday that their city is among the ten communities in North Georgia getting an American Recovery and Reinvestment Grant.

His pallbearers were the six boys who built his plain pine coffin in their high school shop class.

The death of two more infants trapped in Simplicity bassinets prompted the Consumer Product Safety Commission to re-announce its August 2008 recall of the child beds on Thursday.

Two more infants have died because of the ill-constructed Simplicity bassinet, and that has prompted the Consumer Product Safety Commission to act once again in this case.

Government safety officials warned parents today about Simplicity bassinets after two more infants were killed when they became trapped.

Piedmont College officials are thrilled to start this fall with the largest freshman class the small, liberal arts school has ever had, building on a 15-year trend of growth.

A new traffic signal is going up in front of the Habersham County Medical Center.

Governor Sonny Perdue announced Tuesday the approval of 26 environmental infrastructure project loans.

Loren Coleman on July 12th, 2009 Just announced this week, the researchers who discovered the salamander describe it in the Journal of Zoology .

Miss Elizabeth Joyce Millians of Tucker, Ga., became the bride of Sy Erikson Allen on May 23, 2009, at Grace United Methodist Church.

A striking new species of lungless salamander has been found living in a small stream in the Appalachian foothills of the US.

Georgia Bulldogs' coach Mark Richt has restructured part of his coaching staff. Brown faces life for wife's murder An Athens man could spend the rest of his life in prison for beating his wife to death with a tree branch last year.

Barbara Brown Taylor was sitting in an Indian restaurant with some of her students, when she noticed they had all bowed their heads.

TaShara Lee, 23, and Jeffro Powell, 22, are getting married Saturday. They're also both looking for a job.

LULA a ' A college professor from Lula won $52,000 playing the lottery. Lottery officials said Robert Wainberg, 55, of Lula, won $1,000 a week for a year from matching five out of six winning numbers plus the Free Ball in the May 27 Win for Life drawing.