Whitesburg News

Commissioner Vicki Anderson addresses County Attorney Cynthia Daley at a meeting of the Board of Commissioners on Tuesday.

Growth slowed considerably in Carroll County in 2008, but all its cities included in the report released by the U.S. Census Bureau this week experienced a population increase, even if it was in the single digits.

Billie Jane McIntosh, a great-great-great-granddaughter of Chief William McIntosh, will be in Coweta County -- named in his honor as chief of the Cowetas -- Wednesday.

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Billie Jane McIntosh's updated schedule calls for her to be in neighboring Carroll County on Monday and taking a trip to north Alabama on Tuesday.

Two kayakers from Atlanta reported missing on the Chattahoochee River have been found safe.

Rescue teams from the Carroll County Fire Department searched a stretch of the Chattahoochee River near Whitesburg, Georgia overnight, looking for a couple in kayak canoes.

A reproduction of an original bridge over the Chattahoochee River between Coweta and Carroll counties will be constructed as a footbridge as part of an ongoing surge of tourism infrastructure projects undertaken by Carroll County.

Newnan's roundabout is the traffic improvement that almost wasn't. In February 2005, Newnan Mayor Keith Brady suggested the city ask engineers to study the feasibility of a roundabout at the intersection of East Broad Street/Lower Fayetteville Road and Greison Trail/East Newnan Road.

Now is a good time to plant grass. Claire Pendley, a sales representative with Whitesburg-based North Georgia Turf, said spring is the ideal time to plant sod, but caretakers should be sure the greenery has plenty of water during the first two weeks while it is taking root.

The Delta Epsilon Iota Academic Honor Society has selected Ann Ryan Smith for membership in the local chapter at University of Georgia.

Soon, the old concrete and steel bridge over the Chattahoochee River at Highway 16 West near Whitesburg will be nothing more than a memory.