Young Harris News

Sarah Olver, of Young Harris, GA, published an e-book this week entitled "Garden Guide - A No Nonsense, No PhD Guide to Great Gardens With Hand-Holding How To's for Beginners And Straightforward Instruction for Advanced Gardeners". Blairsville May 14, 2013 - Most people admire their neighbor's gardens filled with flowering perennials and long to ... (more)

Time is flying and it is ever closer to ICMC 2013! The International Country Music Conference is pleased to announce that Dave Sichak of hillbilly-music.com fame will be presenting "The Southern California Hillbilly Music Scene In The 1940s and 1950s: Negatives That Positively Need To Tell A Story." Sichak indicates that "a musician of the era with ... (more)

When it came to college choices, Lexi Chastine had no interest in Young Harris College.

Rachel Breann Lindsey of Lindale was recently presented with the Young Harris College Student Government Association Member of the Year award.

After holding worship services at Young Harris United Methodist Church on Prince Avenue, Oconee Street United Methodist Church is moving to Tuckston United Methodist Church on Lexington Road, using the chapel which years ago was the main sanctuary for Tuckston UMC.

With his cowboy boots touching my tasseled loafers, we were toe-to-toe, 10,000 feet over the Peach State.

Michael Wilson's grand slam highlighted a six-run fifth inning as Francis Marion University defeated Young Harris College 11-6 in a Peach Belt Conference baseball game on Thursday evening at Zell B. Miller Field.

YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. - At Young Harris College one year ago, three dozen signatures appeared on a faculty petition asking the college's administration to address "the pervasive and destructive culture of hazing on the YHC campus." The April 2012 petition came on the heels of a complaint by a freshman student, Jo Hannah Burch, who said she had been ... (more)

Through the Girlfriend Getaway, the Cartersville-Bartow County Convention & Visitors Bureau is offering its first promotion tailored to a specific visitor experience.

Before she started classes at Young Harris College in 2012, freshman Jo Hannah Burch enthusiastically pledged with a sorority called Gamma Psi.

An off duty officer in Towns County had to be extricated from his car after it entered a lake.

Mutt-Strut: 2-4 p.m., Bishop Park, 705 Sunset Drive; contests include best kisser, best puppy dog eyes, best lap dog, best booty wiggle, most talented and super mutt; silent auction, raffle and Athens canine rescue T-shirts and merchandise; registration for contests held from 1:30-2 p.m. and is $15; all registered participants will receive an ... (more)

Trey Rogers and Zach Bricknell each hit home runs as the Young Harris College baseball team defeated Tennessee Temple University 13-3 in seven innings on Friday in Young Harris.

Photo: Becky Smyth, parking services manager; Rick Waters, parking enforcement manager; and Don Walter, president of parking association of Georgia.

Led by Teresa Caballer Hernani's second-place finish, the second-year Lander women's golf team won the two-day, two-round Peach Belt Conference Tournament championship hosted by Columbus State University Sunday afternoon at the par-71, 5,849-yard Callaway Garden's Lake View Course.

Roughly 70 members of Oconee Street United Methodist Church gathered yesterday in the transformed gymnasium of Young Harris UMC for Sunday service.

Trey Rogers' two-run home run in the bottom of the ninth gave Young Harris College a 6-5 Peach Belt Conference baseball victory over Georgia College & State University on Saturday in Young Harris.