Dade County News

On Nov. 24th Dade County deputies responded to Phillips Lane on Sand Mountain on a theft of metal report.

"I'll look to like if looking liking move," young Juliet alliteratively tells her mother in the Shakespeare play, promising to give her cousin Paris serious consideration as husband material.

Shaun Brand of the Dade County Health Department's Environmental division confirmed last week that he had given up trying to bring Wild Moon Ranch and Resort, formerly known as the Preserve, into compliance with county health rules, opting finally to pass the matter into legal hands.

Children in Dade County had just been released from school for summer vacation when an explosion rocked the Piney neighborhood on June 4, 2009.

In the line of duty, Patty Murphy has been chased by dogs and attacked by turkeys, and once she was held hostage in her car by a flock of angry geese.

At his tax appeal Nov. 5, Robert "Smokey" Russell read solemnly from a Dade County Sentinel article detailing tax valuation reductions made by the county this year in the cases of Shaw Industries, the Bank of Dade and County Executive Ted Rumley.

Dade County Tax Commissioner Jane Moreland announced Monday that she received a check last week for back taxes on lots at Wild Moon Ranch and Resort, formerly known as the Preserve at Rising Fawn, in the amount of $336,412.63. Eugene Johnson, the Dade businessman who holds a mortgage on the Johnson's Crook property, had been negotiating with the ...

An ordinance regulating subdivisions that had preoccupied the Dade County Commission for months passed without a squeak at the bodya s regularly scheduled November meeting last week.

Veterans Day activities kicked off Tuesday morning with the annual program Soldiers in the Classroom.

The Dade County Commission held a special called meeting Oct. 29 to call dibs on over a million federal stimulus dollars for economic development before a Nov.

Jurors were chosen and a few cases went to trial last week in Superior Court but this week all is quiet as the District Attorneya s office cancelled the second week of court due to a lack of cases to try in Dade County for this session.

Pumpkin carving has become a tradition in Dade County with the annual pumpkin lighting on the square in Trenton.

For the third time in two years, state legislators from the Georgia's 9th Congressional District will, on Wednesday, decide who will represent the district on the state transportation board.

When Phyllis Powell graduated from high school in Trenton, Ga., in 1976, she didn't have far to travel to land her first job.

What: A three-day music festival sponsored by the Lumpkin Coalition to raise public awareness and generate funds to help save the Eastern and Carolina Hemlock trees.

Opening the Long Branch Trail on Lookout Mountain is only the beginning, said project manager Mike Pollack at opening ceremonies Friday.

Dade County detectives have been investigating reports of prescription forgery in the City of Trenton over the last few weeks.

Many Dade County residents were surprised by the streetscape renderings presented by Better Hometown Manager Peter Cervelli at the Sept.

In 1949, if you lived in Dade County and you wanted to make a call - " and if you were lucky enough to have one of only 65 telephones in Trenton - " picking up your receiver and turning the handle would put you through to Tommy Gray's gas station on Highway 11, where the switchboard of the local telephone exchange was housed.

With Walker, Catoosa and 15 other counties declared disaster areas and flood warnings in effect until Tuesday afternoon for many areas, Dade County residents can count themselves lucky to have avoided many of the problems caused by recent rain storms.