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Traci Reece Walker County’s Reese and Bulman receive state honors
Two of Walker County’s top emergency service personnel will be honored for their outstanding community service by Georgia’s State Firefighters Association. Traci Reece, captain with the Walker Cou...
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Edward Jones financial advisor wins Service Award
Lonnie E. Jones, certified financial planner of the financial services firm Edward Jones, recently won the firm’s Service Award for ten years of hard work and enthusiasm as an Edward Jones financi...
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This antique vehicle is one of the many props for the set of the movie “Water for Elephants”. (Messenger photo/Josh O’Bryant) Movie mania hits Chickamauga
Hollywood has come to Chickamauga, and fanatic fans, onlookers and businesses are getting a taste of show business. Cori Burnette, 25, and Evi Galloway, 21 both of Chickamauga, today waited anxiou...
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Hutcheson partners with CH Consulting to provide financial and strategic plan
Hutcheson Medical Center announces an agreement with Community Hospital Consulting (CH Consulting) of Plano, Texas. CH Consulting is the consulting and hospital management division of Community Ho...
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Watkins Family to perform Aug. 8 in LaFayette
The Watkins Family, a gospel and bluegrass group from northeast Georgia, will perform live at First Baptist Church of LaFayette Sunday, Aug. 8 at 6:15 p.m. This award-winning musical family has ap...
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Marsh House will exhibit apron collection for month of August
The Marsh House will be exhibiting museum quality aprons through the month of August starting Aug. 12 through Sept. 26. The apron collection comes from the collection of Karen Anderson from Champa...
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Pictured are Damon Raines, director of operations; Denia Reese, superintendent of schools; Diana Allen, CEO Primary Health Care Centers; Rodney Thompson, principal Tiger Creek Elementary School. Planning grant for a school-based health clinic awarded to Primary Health Care Centers and Catoosa County Schools
Catoosa Public Schools superintendent Denia Reese and Primary Health Care Centers CEO Diana Allen announce that Emory University, under a grant from the Zeist Foundation Inc., has awarded a one-...
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Parents and kids lined up to take free school supplies during 2009’s Back 2 School Blast at Kids 4 Christ. Kids 4 Christ’s book bag giveaway event to be held Aug. 7
Kids 4 Christ’s Back 2 School Blast will be held Saturday, Aug. 7 from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Kids 4 Christ building across from Wallis-Wilbanks Funeral Home in LaFayette. Kids who attend can pick up...
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Woodstation Valley Club donates fire building to Catoosa County
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Woodstation Valley Club on Wednesday, July 28, donated their volunteer fire department building on East Nickajack Road to Catoosa County. The building has served as a hub for community fire protec...
Savings in the July 30 edition of the Walker County Messenger
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Walker County house is site of filming Friday for "Water for Elephants"
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A house on West Cove Road in Kensington, just south of Chickamauga, will be used in the upcoming movie “Water for Elephants.” “Water for Elephants” will star Robert Pattinson (famous as Edward C...
Primary Health Care Centers celebrate Health Center Week
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During the week of Aug. 8 through Aug. 14, Primary Health Care Centers, located in Walker and Dade counties, are celebrating National Health Center Week. Walker County commissioner Bebe Heiskell s...
Eldridge named charter member of South Poll Grass Cattle Association
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John Eldridge of Flintstone was presented with a charter member certicate at the recent annual meeting of the South Poll Grass Cattle Association held in Montgomery, Texas. Presenting the certifica...
Remembering Our Heroes event set for Sept. 4
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The Remembering Our Heroes event is set for Saturday, Sept. 4 from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. on the polo field of the former Army Post in Fort Oglethorpe. The program that will include World War II battl...
Georgia technical colleges set enrollment record with highest-ever one-year increase
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An unprecedented 22 percent jump in the number of students attending the state’s technical colleges has set a new annual enrollment record for the Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG). The sy...
LaFayette resident surprised by success with "fabric" gardening
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CarpetFarmer008 (scanned photo, may need cropping) Robertson’s plants have grown so large thanks to his ingenious use of fabric that it’s sometimes difficult to walk between them. (Contributed p...
Spokesman: Gabor to go home from hospital Friday (AP)

FILE - In this Aug. 15, 1986 file photo, actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is shown Los Angeles. Doctors plan to let Zsa Zsa Gabor return home Friday, Aug. 6, 2010 about three weeks after the 93-year-old actress was hospitalized with a broken hip. (AP Photo/File)AP - Doctors plan to let Zsa Zsa Gabor return home Friday, about three weeks after the 93-year-old actress was hospitalized with a broken hip.


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Spike Lee screens film that includes oil spill (AP)

FILE-This July 10, 2010 file photo shows director Spike Lee entering Cipriani's for the wedding of Carmelo Anthony and LaLa Vasquez, in New York. Lee has screened his new four-hour documentary on the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and says no one from the oil giant is speaking to him. The director showed 'If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise' at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in San Diego on Saturday July 31, 2010. It airs in August on HBO. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano,File)AP - Spike Lee screened some of his new HBO documentary that includes a look at the massive BP Gulf oil spill and says no one from the oil giant is speaking to him.


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Snooki of 'Jersey Shore' arrested in NJ beach town (AP)

FILE - In this July 27, 2010 file photo, Nicole 'Snooki' Polizzi , a cast member of MTV's 'Jersey Shore' reality series is shown at the New York Stock Exchange. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)AP - "Jersey Shore" cast member Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi has been arrested in the New Jersey beach town where the MTV show is based.


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