News for Pickens County, GA. By Angela Reinhardt Staff Writer areinhardt@pickensprogress.com Just a few weeks after a short-lived snow that turned Pickens into more of an ice-glazed wasteland than a...

News for Pickens County, GA. By Angela Reinhardt Staff Writer areinhardt@pickensprogress.com Just a few weeks after a short-lived snow that turned Pickens into more of an ice-glazed wasteland than a...

By Angela Reinhardt Staff Writer areinhardt@pickensprogress.com Just a few weeks after a short-lived snow that turned Pickens into more of an ice-glazed wasteland than a...

Nov 19, 2024 · Commission Chair Kris Stancil presented a $40,213,437 proposed 2025 budget Monday at the November commissioners meeting, showing a 7.47 percent increase over 2024. According to the PowerPoint presentation, the “increase in revenue is due to real growth tax effects, sales tax, and service revenue.

Nov 6, 2024 · The T-Splost, a one-cent sales tax for local road improvements, failed by a thin margin of just 44 votes out of the 20,000 cast in that ballot question — 9,978 (49,89 percent) Pickens voters voted for the measure, with 10,022 (50.11 percent) voting against.

General news and features. Shuttle, parking info for families FULL-COLOR INSERT WITH SENIOR PHOTOS, PROGRAM INFO IN THIS WEEK’S PRINT AND E-EDITIONS Two hundred and sixty-six Pickens High School…

Dec 11, 2024 · News for Pickens County, GA. By Dan Pool, Editor dpool@pickensprogress.com First, a note of appreciation to all our readers and advertisers for continuing to support community journalism.

Oct 23, 2024 · Voters are turning out in droves to cast their ballots for the General Election, with the election supervisor saying numbers are higher than any election she has been involved in. By the end of the day Monday, Oct. 21, there had been 6,345 votes cast of the 29,196 registered voters with two more

News for Pickens County, GA. By Angela Reinhardt Staff Writer areinhardt@pickensprogress.com Just a few weeks after a short-lived snow that turned Pickens into more of an ice-glazed wasteland than a...

Jan 2, 2025 · Pickens County fell one spot in the state but remained the county with the highest per capita personal income in our 15-county northwest region in 2023, according to recently released data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) annual Personal Income by County and Metropolitan Area. Per