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Earthquake rattles north Georgia

...state line between Cohutta, Ga., and Apison, Tenn. David Metcalf, a 911 operator for Cohutta and surrounding Whitfield County, says six or seven people called after feeling the quake shake their homes. But no damage was reported. Geological...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-02-02/earthquake-rattles-north-geor
Deal targets energy tax

...it's unclear how the state would make up the revenues.In the heart of north Geor gia's "carpet capital," Whitfield County Commission Chairman Mike Babb said he fears the state risks losing jobs by keeping the tax on the books. However...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2012-01-15/deal-targets-energy-tax
East Georgia College president to retire

...vice president and director of laboratories for the Xytex Corp. in Augusta from 1975 to 1977.Black, a native of Whitfield County, Ga., moved with his family to Swainsboro and attended kindergarten through second grade in Swainsboro before...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/education/2011-10-02/east-georgia-college-pres
Ga. school lunch program sees spike

...Georgia, the number of students enrolled in free meals is up by nearly 25 percent, according to state data.At the Whitfield County schools in north Georgia, nearly 70 percent of children get a federally subsidized lunch. The numbers have spiked...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2011-12-18/ga-school-lunch-program-sees
Ga. city may oust cat leash law

...the changes after the second reading on Aug. 16. City attorney Jim Bisson says a service delivery agreement with Whitfield County, which handles animal control in the city, requires city animal control law match the county s. ___

http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2010-08-03/ga-city-may-oust-cat-leash-l
Latest News | Pets
Cops wound man after N. Ga. manhunt

...told officers a man had forced a woman into a car. Deputies tracked the woman's phone signal to an area near the Whitfield County line, and found the woman's body on railroad tracks. The sheriff says officers confronted a man identified as...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2010-07-30/cops-wound-man-after-n-ga-ma
Latest News | Crime & courts
Nathan Deal on the issues

...through the 287(g) program. Because of that pilot program, law enforcement officers in Cobb, Gwinnett, Hall and Whitfield counties have received special training to enforce federal immigration law. As governor, I'll expand this effort statewide...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/elections/2010-07-18/nathan-deal-is
Georgia Elections | Georgia Governor | Elections | Elections
Girl who died of flu had no other health problems

...medical condition, the Georgia Division of Public Health reported. The one death was that of a 7-year-old girl in Whitfield County. Another case, of a 41-year-old Ware County woman, is still being investigated. As of Tuesday, the database...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/10/14/met_551852.shtml
Metro | Columbia County Board of Education | Swine flu
Court voids 'vague' Ga. left turn law

...than clear to someone that doesn't read law, but it makes perfectly good sense if you stop and read it," said Whitfield County District Attorney Kermit McManus, whose office handled the case. He said the court's "strained" interpretation...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/06/09/met_526934.shtml
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List of ACC signees

...BrunSwicK HS (SouthPort, N.C.) DEnzelle Good OL 6-6/325 Gaffney (S.C.) HS DEan HayneS cb 5-11/178 NW Whitfield County HS (Tunnel Hill, Ga.) Sam JoneS OL 6-7/295 Hargrave MA (Fuquay-Varina, N.C.) NAthan Mageo DT 6-3...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/02/05/col_510271.shtml
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