The Dalton Elks Lodge awarded $15,000 in total scholarships in July to 12 area students who graduated from local area high schools in 2020. Each student was awarded $1,250.

Zoom with the Creative Arts Guild to this adult cooking class at 11 a.m. on Sunday.

The 23rd annual Spring Place Community Festival will be Saturday at the Old Spring Place Methodist Church just off Ga. Highway 225 South.

Brian Wright has been named president of the Dalton Civitan Club. Wright is an attorney at the Cowan Law Firm in Dalton.

The 23rd annual Spring Place Community Festival is set for Saturday, Aug. 15, at the Old Spring Place Methodist Church.

The Anna Shaw Children's Institute, 1201 Burleyson Road, will host a training program, given by the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, for individuals to become special education advocates. The training, Volunteer Advocacy Project, will be offered in-person at the institute or through Zoom.

Emily Morgan Allen of Southeast Whitfield High School has been selected to receive a Student of Integrity scholarship from the Better Business Bureau for 2020.

A total of 16,470 students enrolled during the 2020 spring semester at The University of Alabama were named to the Dean's List with an academic record of 3.5 or above or the President's List with an academic record of 4.0 (all A's). The Dean's and President's lists recognize full-time underg…

Helping citizens exercise their privilege to vote amid the pandemic required extra attention this year. One of the ways was through expansion of absentee ballots.

Spring Place, home of the first Christian mission to the Cherokees and then the first county seat for Murray County, is one of the most historic communities in our area. Today, it's designated a Georgia Historic Township and is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places. And it …

To commemorate the longevity of the Sprig and Dig Garden Club, members decided to donate two planting benches and a gift certificate from Fiddleheads to the Anna Shaw Children’s Institute. The club is celebrating 50 years this year.

With 18 residents starting their internal medicine residency program on July 1, Hamilton Health Care System has added academic institution to its résumé.

Kennesaw State University recently welcomed its newest class of graduates. Nearly 3,400 students earned bachelor's, master's or doctoral degrees for the spring 2020 semester. Area graduates include:

Stonewall "Stoney" Ponders of Ponders Funeral Homes and Crematory recently completed 41 contact hours of specialized embalming and reconstructive training as part of Fountain National Academy's "Advanced Post Mortem Reconstructive Surgery" seminar.

The U.S. Office of the First Lady has announced an art opportunity for students in grades 3-12 titled Building the Movement: America’s Youth Celebrate 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage. Submissions will culminate in an exhibit honoring the centennial anniversary of the ratification of the 19th a…

The Whitfield-Murray Historical Society is sponsoring a silent auction for a golf cart ending Friday, July 10, at 4 p.m. The silent auction is for a 2002 Club Car Golf Cart model DS electric IQ48-volt system. Email your bids and questions to director@whitfieldmurray.org or you may mail in or…

The Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia has donated $29,200 this year to date to the Chattanooga Area Food Bank to support its work to fight hunger in Northwest Georgia. The gift will provide three mobile pantries in Whitfield County and additional hunger relief in Catoosa, Chattooga, …

Textile Rubber & Chemical Co. in Dalton has awarded this year's Joseph E. Willard Scholarship to Barrett Barbre. He is a recent graduate of Coahulla Creek High School and plans to attend Kennesaw State University where he will major in engineering.

Textile Rubber & Chemical Co. in Dalton has awarded this year's Ray N. Taylor Memorial Scholarship to Kinleigh Stancill. She is a recent graduate of Northwest Whitfield High School and plans to attend Reinhardt University in Waleska majoring in business with an emphasis on journalism and…

Need some healthy activities to help offset all that screen time the kids are getting these days? The Creative Arts Guild has reopened and is offering summer day camps for ages 5 through 14.

The Dalton Arts Project recently awarded the Sharon Merritt Senior Scholarship to Emily Allen. This $500 scholarship is given to a senior dancer of the Dalton Dance Company who has shown exceptional commitment and generosity in her dance career.

The Creative Arts Guild reports that its first two weeks after reopening have been successful.

On Monday evening, U.S. Rep. Tom Graves, R-Ranger, hosted a virtual video call with the students from the 14th Congressional District who were appointed to attend a U.S. military academy, including U.S. Naval Academy appointees Chaisen Buckner of Murray County, who attended North Murray High…

The QuaranTunes @ Noon concert this Friday will feature The Farmer & Adele.

The Whitfield-Murray Historical Society announces its first Social Distancing Outdoor Concert at the Chatsworth Depot for 2020 on Saturday. The free concert starts at 5 p.m. and will feature Chatsworth native Jason Lyles, a singer-songwriter and recording artist currently booking high-energy…

An estate sale held by the Whitfield-Murray Historical Society at the Old Spring Place Methodist Church last month was so successful that a second sale has been set for June 19-20 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. each day.

Danielle Epanchin says she always wanted to be a physician.

The Carpet Capital Association of Realtors (CCAR) is helping provide local healthcare workers with protective face shields during the COVID-19 crisis by donating funds to two Whitfield County Schools that are using their 3D printers to make face shields, in partnership with Shaw Industries.

The Lesche Woman’s Club has selected its 2020 scholarship recipients. Fernanda Hurtado-Cruz, Isha Mittal and Kaci Queen will receive scholarships from the oldest ladies’ literary club in Georgia, founded in Dalton in 1890.

Dalton Little Theatre announces its 2020 scholarship recipients: