Following a lengthy discussion before an overflow crowd, county backing of the proposed hospital regeneration project became a dead issue after the commissioners indicated their determined opposition and declined to put a motion on the floor at last Thursday's regular meeting... More...

After all of Wilkes County had been praying for rain for weeks with barely a drop, the answer to prayer finally came in a thunder-booming deluge Saturday about suppertime. As much as the rain was needed, though, the timing was lousy. More...

As his stage band and parents applaud, Ryan Dukes takes a final bow as leader of the Washington-Wilkes Comprehensive High School Band.The Dukes family will depart for Habersham County this summer, and band families wished him well at both last week's concert and at band parti... More...