Madison County News

Thomas Ehlers never had shared a swimming pool with a shark before, and he wasn't sure about the proper etiquette.

Madison County residents who find themselves in an emergency soon could be just a text message away from help.

Colbert Mayor John Waggoner holds a copy of a 1932 Athens Banner-Herald housed in the Colbert Museum, which will be open during the city's July Fourth Celebration.

In May 1998, David Brown of Madison County wrote a college history paper on the Great Depression in which he interviewed his grandmother, Annie Sue Belin Seymour, and Comer resident Polk Gholston.

Firefighters investigating the gunpowder-fueled fire that left two Colbert residents dead and one seriously burned probably will not be able to determine exactly what sparked the quick-burning blaze early Sunday morning.

A Colbert brother and sister died in a fire and explosion apparently fueled by gunpowder early Sunday morning near Colbert Elementary School.

The Madison County Sheriff's Office reported the following incidents: Arrest: On June 10, deputy Jason Ring was patrolling on Glenn Carrie Road about 9:20 a.m. when his radar showed an approaching 1990 Ford F-150 pickup traveling at 54 mph in a 35 mph zone.

A fire that touched off a gunpowder blast has killed a postal carrier and her brother in the Madison County town of Colbert.

A brother and sister died and a man suffered burns early Sunday when fire in a one-time gun repair shop touched off a gunpowder explosion just outside the Madison County town of Colbert.

Pastor Bobby Bloodshaw stands in the Living Waters Christian Fellowship recently.

In the 1995 movie "Apollo 13," Ed Harris, playing NASA flight director Gene Kranz, utters the following line after an explosion aboard the moon-bound spacecraft: "Let's work the problem, people.

The Georgia Reptile Conservancy will bring its hands-on program to the Madison County Library at 2 p.m. June 27.

Madison County deputies watch as the Georgia State Patrol Governor's Task Force helicopter lands on a football field at the Madison County Recreation Department on June 10.

Brandon Fortson bettered Randell A.C. King on Tuesday in a rare contested race to take a seat on the Hull City Council.

Summer is orientation time in Athens, the season when hundreds of incoming college freshmen get a taste of what's in store for them for the next four years.

Four raccoons, four skunks and a fox tested positive for rabies so far this year in Madison County, twice as many as any other county in the Athens-based Northeast Health District.

Silversmith Ellen Cowne works on her handmade jewelry recently in her Colbert home.

The Madison County Sheriff's Office reported the following incidents: Arrest: On May 27, investigator Donald Carr received confidential information about a possible drug sale at a convenience store parking lot on U.S. Highway 29 north of Danielsville.

Madison County's Merchants & Farmers Bank will change its name to First Citizens Bank and Trust, after all.

Known throughout Northeast Georgia as "Mr. Keith the Magic Man," Watkinsville resident Keith Karnok can be seen all over the region this summer as part of the Georgia Public Library Summer Reading Program.