2017 - Monthly Archive

22 May

Titles & Blurbs

Candice

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Beat the Heat This Summer

By Julie Senger With the official arrival of summer this month, it never hurts to have a collection of ways to stay cool during these often hot and humid Georgia days. One of the most obvious ways to... read more..

22 May

Titles & Blurbs

Candice

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Beat the Heat This Summer

By Julie Senger With the official arrival of summer this month, it never hurts to have a collection of ways to stay cool during these often hot and humid Georgia days. One of the most obvious ways to... read more..

22 May

Titles & Blurbs

Candice

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Book Review: Slightly South of Simple

By Annell Gerson The tiny but mighty "it girl" of southern fiction, Kristy Woodson Harvey, recently released Slightly South of Simple, the first in her new Peachtree Bluff series. There is much to lo... read more..

22 May

Titles & Blurbs

Candice

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Book Review: The Race for Paris

By Jessica Asbell Meg White Claytons The Race for Paris is the fictional account of female reporters during WWII. As evidenced by the actual quotes from WWII female reporters sprinkled throughout the... read more..

22 May

Titles & Blurbs

Candice

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Artist Profile: Brent Lambert-Zaffino

Inside The Head of Filmaker Brent Lambert-Zaffino By Maria Klouda North Georgias Brent Lambert-Zaffino was always the kid with the camcorder, spending a lot of time playing around with iMovie. Now, ... read more..

20 Apr

Titles & Blurbs

Candice

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Artist Profile: Peachy Pyron

Enjoying the Process By Tina Morris Peachy Pyrons debut album, Worth the Burn. was released when she was only fourteen years old and included several self-penned tracks. At that time, her music deci... read more..

20 Apr

Recipes

Candice

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Taste of Life: Minestrone Soup

By Chef Hillary Gallagher Ingredients: 1 oz. bacon 2 oz. olive oil 1 medium onion, diced 2 stalks celery, diced 2 medium carrots, diced small head green cabbage, chopped 1, 14-16 oz. can fire-roaste... read more..

Downtown Kitchen: Grilled Lamb Chops Over Risotto with a Shiitake Mushroom and Fire-roasted Tomoto Sauce

20 Apr

Recipes

Candice

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Downtown Kitchen: Grilled Lamb Chops Over Risotto with a Shiitake Mushroom and Fire-roasted Tomoto Sauce

Serves 4 Risotto Ingredients and Procedure: 1. Select your favorite Italian Arborio rice, and prepare it according to package instructions. 2. Finish it with one cup of parmesan cheese. Shiitake Mu... read more..

Milton's Cuisine & Cocktails: Crme Brles

20 Apr

Recipes

Candice

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Milton's Cuisine & Cocktails: Crme Brles

Ingredients 1 qt. heavy cream1 cup white sugar 1 cup egg yolks1 vanilla bean Extra sugar for sugar shell1 pint of your favorite berries Procedure 1. In a stainless-steel sauce pot, combine the suga... read more..

20 Apr

Titles & Blurbs

Candice

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Book Review: The Martyr's Brother

By Annell Gerson For many of us, home includes winding neighborhood roads lined with towering pines, plush fescue lawns sprinkled with azaleas and dogwoods and roads dense with SUVs loaded with socce... read more..

20 Apr

Titles & Blurbs

Candice

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Book Review: Voices From the Past

By Farris Yawn As many people know, members of what is known as the Greatest Generation dont often share a lot of personal war stories. Many of the people who came home from WWII kept their war exper... read more..

20 Apr

Titles & Blurbs

Candice

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Cherokee Bail Bonds

The Key To Set You Free By Rajayne Cordery To err is human; to forgive divine. Alexander Pope Mistakes are made. It is the absolute nature of the human condition on many levels. Whether you are lo... read more..

20 Apr

Titles & Blurbs

Candice

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St. George Village

The Single Life Secure, Comfortable Senior Living By Cyndi Braun When Bev Langhorne and her husband, Jack, moved to St. George Village in 2011, she knew it was the right place for this time in thei... read more..

20 Apr

Titles & Blurbs

Candice

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The Cherokee Outdoor Y

Water Sports, Hiking, Horseback Riding It's Fun to Camp at the Cherokee Outdoor Y! By Cyndi Braun Summer is right around the corner, which means its time to register for camp. The Cherokee Outdoor ... read more..

20 Apr

Titles & Blurbs

Candice

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Honoring the Fallen

Understanding the Traditions Behind How We Say Goodbye to Our Active Duty and Veteran Soldiers By Julie Senger While all funerals are somber, special, personal and moving experiences for the family ... read more..

Fall in Love with Some of Georgia's Natural Swimming Holes and Rock Slides

20 Apr

Titles & Blurbs

Candice

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Fall in Love with Some of Georgia's Natural Swimming Holes and Rock Slides

By Julie Senger Anyone who has spent any amount of time in Georgia knows that the line between spring and summertime is often a blurry one. Georgias transition between these two seasons is not usuall... read more..

20 Apr

Titles & Blurbs

Candice

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Community Partner: Kind Bikes

Our Bikes Your Cause Founded in 2016, Kind Bikes is the brainchild of co-founder Jimmy Stubbs. Drawing from his experience as a participant and then cycling coach with Team in Training, Jimmy realize... read more..

Milton's Cuisine & Cocktails: Never Enough Thyme

11 Apr

Recipes

Candice

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Milton's Cuisine & Cocktails: Never Enough Thyme

Ingredients: 2.5 oz. dry gin.75 oz. elderflower liqueur.25-.5 oz. fresh lime juice2 sprigs thymeIce and water to taste Procedure: 1. Add ice and water to a martini glass to chill. 2. Add ice and al... read more..

Goin' Coastal: Striped Bass with Farro and Charred Baby Vidalia

11 Apr

Recipes

Candice

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Goin' Coastal: Striped Bass with Farro and Charred Baby Vidalia

(Serves 2-3) Striped Bass and Farro Ingredients: 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil1 tablespoon unsalted butter1 cup farro2 1/4 cup water or vegetable stock2 baby Vidalia onions, peeled, cleaned an read more..

Community Partner: Songs For Kids Foundation

11 Apr

Titles & Blurbs

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Community Partner: Songs For Kids Foundation

Songs For Kids Foundation exists to give kids battling serious illness opportunities to be creative and express themselves through music. This Foundation brings music into hospitals all over the U.S. ... read more..

30 Mar

General Site Content

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Pricing

No Longer Bound Thrift Store

No Longer Bound (NLB) Thrift Store recently opened a location in Woodstock. No Longer Bound is a metro-Atlanta based non-profit dedicated to rescuing adult men from drug and alcohol addiction. All don... read more..

24 Mar

Business - Woodstock

Candice

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Cobb EMC

Cobb EMC employees recently delivered thirty, bright red wagons to Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite. The wagons, which are equipped with IV poles, are used in lieu of wheelchairs to tr... read more..

24 Mar

Business - Woodstock

Candice

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Northside Hospital Cherokee

Northside Hospital Cherokees long-awaited replacement hospital will open for patients on May 6th. The new hospital is located at 450 Northside Cherokee Boulevard in Canton. Construction is complete o... read more..

24 Mar

Community - Woodstock

Candice

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Chamber Names Volunteer of the Quarter

The Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce that Dana Callan, with Bank of North Georgia, has been named the Chairmans Council Volunteer of the Quarter for first quarter of 2017. M... read more..

Cherokee Strives to be a Leader in Talent Development

24 Mar

Community - Woodstock

Candice

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Cherokee Strives to be a Leader in Talent Development

Recently, the Cherokee Office of Economic Development (COED) unveiled a multiyear plan to enhance Cherokees workforce. The Cherokee Workforce Collaborative (CWFC) brought vested parties together to bu... read more..

Woodstock, Canton and Holly Springs Named in Top 20 of Georgias Safest Cities

24 Mar

Community - Woodstock

Candice

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Woodstock, Canton and Holly Springs Named in Top 20 of Georgias Safest Cities

To come up with its list, The National Council for Home Safety and Security reviews the most recent statistics from the FBI Uniform Crime Report (January-June 2016), along with its own population data... read more..

CCSD Announces High School Graduation Ceremony Schedule

24 Mar

School - Woodstock

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CCSD Announces High School Graduation Ceremony Schedule

All ceremonies will be held at First Baptist Church of Woodstock, 11905 Highway 92, Woodstock: Creekview: 4:00pm, Thursday, May 25Etowah: 8:00pm, Thursday, May 25Woodstock: 4:00pm, Friday, May 26Cher... read more..

E.T. Booth MS Students Selected for District Honor Band

24 Mar

School - Woodstock

Candice

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E.T. Booth MS Students Selected for District Honor Band

Five E.T. Booth Middle School Band students conquered a tough audition process in order to be chosen to participate in the 2017 Georgia Music Educators Association District 9 Honor Band. Seventh-grad... read more..

Boston ES Celebrates Read Across America

24 Mar

School - Woodstock

Candice

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Boston ES Celebrates Read Across America

Boston Elementary School celebrated Read Across America with special activities including a book character dress-up day.... read more..