Local musicians give impromptu concert in downtown Monroe

Robert Vaughn surprised with birthday party after reaching landmark age

Princess and Diva camps return to the historic McDaniel-Tichenor House

The On Stage community theater will hold auditions for the original comedy-drama “Distantly Social” on Wednesday and Saturday.

The Gwinnett Stripers said Tuesday they’re launching a virtual search for people to perform the anthem before games in the 2021 season.

Here are videos of several Walton County church services from Palm Sunday.

The board of On Stage community theater has halted productions, postponing the spring performance of "Driving Miss Daisy."

Lynn Robinson Camp can still remember what that bridge looked like.

Local high schoolers have a chance to develop their writing chops this spring, as Georgia Writers’ Project kicks off its third workshop in March.

Turning 100 is an accomplishment. Turning 101 is even better.

Last weekend, about 100 volunteers holed up in the Hudgens Center for the Arts in Duluth to stitch together superhero capes and tutus.

As the United Way of Walton County kicked off another fundraising campaign with its annual presentation to the Walton County Chamber of Commerce Wednesday at the Monroe Golf & Country Club, one after another, each speaker reiterated the reason why they were there, pushing for aid in fund…

A group of local teen musicians joined forces to put on benefit concert to raise money for cystic fibrosis research.

Benny Parker can’t figure it out. The outgoing commander of the Lindsey-Garrett American Legion Post 64 in Monroe has been part of the group since 1967.

The track at Athens Tech could get a facelift, with a little help from the city of Monroe. It’s part of larger plan for the city to spruce up passive parks around town.

“If you are not the Leland S. Cox the third that was in platoon 1049, PISC, USMC in Sep-Nov 1967, then please throw this letter away and don’t give it another thought,” wrote Joe Bolin, of Moultrie, in a letter to Walton County lawyer L. Stanford Cox III in August of last year.

The Social Circle Police Department held its inaugural awards banquet, Tuesday, March 12, at Church at the Grove in Social Circle.

In the past 10 or so years, America has seen a boom of craft breweries. It started on the West Coast, in places like Portland and Denver, in the 1990s, but more recently has spread nationwide.

It’s still just a skeleton, all metal beams and plywood and muddy concrete floors. But later this year, the W.H. Stanton Memorial Library in Social Circle will have finished its expansion and renovation.

With his glasses perched on his forehead and pencil in hand, Pastor Hugo Bryan-Porter wants Angela to know why the numbers don’t add up.

Back when Wayne Dimsdale was growing up in Oxford in the 1950’s, there wasn’t much to do. Not like there is now, at least.

MONROE, Ga. – Schools throughout Walton EMC’s 10-county service area have received more than $1 million through the co-op’s School EmPOWERment Grant program.

There are 18 rolls of lights. Each is 150 feet long. There is an LED light every inch.

Steve and Susan Brown left Monroe, where they’d both grown up, in the 1970s. They moved west, to Gwinnett County, where they spent 30 years.

For the past three years, a group called NG3 has been working at George Walton Academy, Monroe Area High School and Walnut Grove High School.

Today, the NFL combine is a big deal. Prospects get dressed up in tights, wear labels with numbers and test their 40-yard dash, vertical leap, bench press and other athletic measures on national television.

In 1932, John Denton, the 27-year-old principal of Monroe High School, decided his school needed a gym. Monroe A & M had one. Gratis had one. His students didn’t.

A major infill development project will be before the Monroe City Council next week.

Margaret Atha Cooper celebrated her century of life at its focus: Gratis, Georgia, Center Hill Baptist Church. Vibrant, cheerful, appreciative, Margaret greeted family and well-wishers as they remembered her contributions, August 29, 1918. Although her life began at the ending of WWI when a …

Having a disabled child changes the way a parent sees the world.

Walton County is having a beauty pageant.

The Walton County Extension Office  and the Monroe Downtown Development Authority are in the process of creating a community garden in Monroe.

When Dr. Denny Malcom looks around downtown Social Circle today, he doesn’t see many of the same businesses that were around when he first opened his dentist’s office at 133 South Cherokee Road.

A group of Social Circle citizens teamed up to provide a domestic abuse prevention class on Aug. 6.

They have the long hair, the Marshall amps, the tight pants and V-shaped guitars.

Readers rejoice. The W.H. Stanton Library in Social Circle is getting an expansion and a facelift.