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By REBECCA HAZEN News Editor The Cherokee Regional Library System, which includes the Dade County Public Library, has been awarded Library of the Year for 2020. The Cherokee Regional Library System has four branches in two counties: The Dade County Public Library, which is the only library in Dade County, and three libraries in Walker…

By REBECCA HAZEN News Editor Alex Case, Director of Dade County Emergency Services spoke about the COVID-19 vaccine and it’s availability during the weekly county update on Jan. 7. “The vaccine is coming into our Department of Public Health (DPH). It started coming in the week before last,” Case said. The first group of people…

By REBECCA HAZEN News Editor The Dade County Board of Education called a discussion only meeting on Thursday, Jan. 7, to discuss the continuation of the one percent Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) and whether the selling of bonds would be included in the referendum. The current SPLOST period will end in June…

By REBECCA HAZEN News Editor Assistant Fire Chief Ansel Smith thanked Suggs Propane Gas Co., Inc., for helping the local fire departments during a training class, during the Dade County Board of Commissioner’s meeting on Jan. 7. In September the fire department attended a pressurized container class at the Georgia Public Safety Training Center in…

By REBECCA HAZEN News Editor Camden Smith, a young and upcoming musical artist from Trenton, has released his first single, “I Don’t Wanna Miss You.” Smith is 15 years old and has lived in Dade County his whole life. He has been playing music since he was 12 years old, and started his musical career…

By REBECCA HAZEN News Editor Over half of Dade County’s registered voters turned out to vote in the Georgia Senate runoff election, with the voting period concluding on Election Day, Tuesday, Jan. 5. The majority of voters in Dade County voted for Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock ended…

By REBECCA HAZEN News Editor The Dade County Board of Commissioner’s Administration Office was closed to walk-in visitors last week due to a COVID-19 positivity case, but has reopened again. “We have had an exposure in the office, so we are following all protocols. We are social distancing and wearing masks and trying to keep…

By REBECCA HAZEN News Editor Georgia’s Northwest Health District is beginning to receive limited quantities of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, and giving out vaccinations to people in the first phase group. Logan Boss, Public Information Officer for Georgia Department of Health’s Northwest Health District, noted that all of the states are handling the vaccines differently.…

By REBECCA HAZEN News Editor Carolyn Bradford, Chair of Dade County Board of Education, has reached the milestone of serving on the board for 25 years. Bradford is originally from Oxnard, Calif., and was raised in Charleston, S.C., as a part of a military family. She and her husband, Gregory Bradford, have been married for…