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Firefighters Eli Kesting, Bo Medlock, and Randy Galvan battle a house fire. SUBMITTED

Firefighter injured

News Staff

Thursday, August 7, 2025

Staff report A firefighter experienced heat-related symptoms when fighting a house fire in Cleveland on Thursday, July 31. White County officials did not release the firefighter’s name.

Author Priscilla Wilson (right) meets with Habersham County reader Lona Smith Hall. CHARLIE WILLIAMS/SPECIAL TO WCN

Artist paints history through fiction

News Staff

Thursday, July 31, 2025

Staff Reports Longtime Sautee artist and writer Priscilla Wilson has added a new medium to her repertoire: historical fiction.

The CAC team.

Hope on the hill

News Staff

Wednesday, July 30, 2025

by Jerry Grillo White County News Behind the door of a pleasant house made of bricks on top of a green hill just outside of downtown Cleveland, there is a sanctuary of hope for abused children.

Rob Tuttle's bees, hard at work. (Jerry Grillo photo)

by Jerry Grillo White County News In the hills and hollers of Northeast Georgia, a sweet enterprise thrives as a collection of beekeepers takes care of the little pollinators and keeps store shelves stocked with local honey.

Bo Medlock

Medlock named interim fire chief in Cleveland

News Staff

Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Staff Reports Cleveland has appointed Brady “Bo” Medlock as interim fire chief, effective August 1, 2025, replacing former chief Ricky Pruitt, who resigned last week. Medlock will assume full duties and responsibilities of the fire chief during this leadership transition.

A special operations officer with the White County Sheriff's Office gives local kids an inside look at an armored SWAT vehicle. (Staff photo/Jerry Grillo)

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Mini police back in town

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Thursday, July 17, 2025

by Jerry Grillo White County News Don’t be alarmed. Those pint-sized peace officers aiming radar guns at your car as you pass in front of the Cleveland Worship Center on Helen Highway can’t give you a ticket. Yet. Give them time, though.

This is one of 14 planned homes for West Jarrard Village. They are being built in a factory in White County. (Submitted)

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New homes landing in Cleveland

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Thursday, July 17, 2025

by Linda Erbele White County News The bottom half of one of the newest homes to be built in Cleveland swung through the air Friday morning, only to be gently guided onto a slab and welded into place. It arrived by flatbed, and was put in place by a large crane.

John Foster at his retirement celebration. (File)

Foster remembered for years of service

News Staff

Thursday, July 17, 2025

Staff reports Former Cleveland Police Chief John Foster once told the News he found a place to call home when he moved to White County in 1997. Foster, 70, died on July 12. He suffered a massive heart attack, according to Cleveland City Manager Kevin Harris.

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Cleveland couple killed in car crash

News Staff

Thursday, July 10, 2025

Staff reports Chandler Scott Partin, 81, and his wife, Esther L. Partin, 82, of Cleveland, died from injuries they sustained in a two-vehicle collision this past weekend. The wreck occurred around 2 p.m.

Visitors from Florida enjoy the spectacle in Helen.

Lighting up the Fourth

News Staff

Thursday, July 10, 2025

The skies over White County were ablaze with fireworks over the Fourth of July weekend. Thousands of people from all over the country, literally from Alaska to Florida, packed Alpine Helen for that city's annual Independence Day festivities.