Tuesday, March 31, 2020
LOCAL UPDATE: White County School Superintendent Dr. Laurie Burkett issued the following statement at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 1.
Updates about closings, cancellations or postponements will be posted here.
In an emergency called meeting this afternoon, the Helen City Commission approved new closures and rules in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Georgia House Speaker David Ralston has doubled down on his request to delay the state’s primary elections by about a month due to concerns over coronavirus, after the state’s elections chief balke
Clinical trials to study a potential new vaccine for coronavirus began Friday morning at Emory University in Atlanta, the school announced.
The White County News interviews David Wilkins. In 2019, the city of Helen, Georgia, celebrated the 50th anniversary of its transformation from a small lumber town into the Bavarian-styled Alpine Helen, one of the most visited areas in Georgia. This is the first video in a series of conversations with locals who shared their experiences about Helen's changes and the people who made a lasting impact.
With springs sports currently shutdown because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the White County High School athletic program currently sets in 26th place in the Georgia Athletic Director's Association's
For more than 30 years, White County High School head baseball coach Jim Waits has spent thousands of hours each spring and summer on the baseball field.
The thousands of high school athletes and coaches around the state may find out the fate of the 2020 spring season on Friday when the Georgia High School Association holds a meeting of the associat
