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Past residents show the porch and abandoned wells on the property of the Elm Street home in Commerce opened to those attending Sunday’s historical society meeting.

Located affront the Gray Hill Cemetery in Commerce, locals gathered for a meeting in the historical house at 1029 Elm Street.

The Jackson County Historical Society aimed to showcase the house that is currently on the market by asking past residents to lead a tour. Preceding the tour, local native and award-winning musician Ricky Fitzpatrick shared the process of how he transcribed his grandfather’s historical cassette tapes to CD format.

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Robbie Bettis is helping to guide the new Hoschton Heritage Art Council as it works to make Hoschton an arts destination.

Imagine artists traveling from all across the country to descend on the West Jackson area to be a part of an Plein Air event.

Consider the possibility that a historic local property could become the headquarters for a vibrant calendar of heritage happenings — from quilting bees to sharing the longheld practice of canning jellies and jams.

Or stretch the mind to see a local venue where performances including theatre and concerts could be presented.

Continue reading Keeping Hoschton’s heritage growing

New gym, fine arts facility to be built on JCCHS campus

The hardhats and shovels are ready for the groundbreaking for the Panther Project.

That is what Kendall Dutton and Keith Watson of the contractors and construction management firm of Bowen & Watson of Toccoa told members of the Jackson County Board of Education at the Feb. 9 work session.

On Monday, the school board gave the word for the construction of a new gym and fine arts facility on the Jackson County Comprehensive High School campus to move forward.

Continue reading Panther Project gets school board go-ahead

Weather permitting, a traffic operations shift is scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 28, on State Route 124 in Braselton.

The ongoing work on roadways in Braselton drives toward another phase of completion.

Continue reading Braselton traffic project moves ahead

Rezoning approved with conditions in 3-2 vote

Vital concerns were raised at the Braselton City Council work session last Thursday by members of the community. On behalf of the Spout Springs Partners, LLC, Jeff Mahaffey presented the case for a rezoning of what is currently zoned a General Commercial property to a Planned Unit Development.

This project is located at the southeast corner of Thompson Mill Road and Spout Springs Road. The developers aim to utilize the 17.89 acres to construct an 278-unit upscale apartment living community with added retail space.

In his argument, Mahaffey made assertions that the vision of the property is to promote retail and commercial development as well to create jobs.

Continue reading Traffic a major concern with Spout Springs apartment proposal