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The grassy lawn of Hancock Park is often filled with people in folding chairs or sitting on outspread blankets awaiting the start of a concert, like it was on Sunday afternoon. However, this time was different.

With coronavirus complications leading to the cancellation of Dahlonega’s annual Fourth of July fireworks show, the question looms, what does the future of festivals look like for the remainder of 2020?

Days of heated debate, mostly over social media, about the 2019-2020 LCHS yearbook came to a head on Wednesday at a Called Meeting of the Lumpkin County Board of Education.

Speculation heated up last week when the Centers for Disease Control released suggested guidelines for reopening schools that seemed to leave Lumpkin County Board of Education members shaking their heads.

The usual sights and sounds of fall tourism season in downtown Dahlonega were replaced by barricades, bag-checks and boots on the ground as rally-goers and counter protesters filled opposite ends of the Public Square.

As much of Dahlonega braces for a controversial rally on Saturday, Mayor Sam Norton says he’s “praying for rain.” But the city council is also taking drastic action at the same time.

Protests against immigrant detention in the U.S. were held across North America and four other continents, spanning over 600 locations across the world on Friday. Dahlonega was one of them.

The future of the Chattahoochee National Forest can be found in a 200-page report recently released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. It’s an extensive plan with several propositions.