Love 'em or hate 'em, it was hard to miss the "Boy Band" chapter in pop music that began in the late '90's. Bands like *NSync and The Backstreet Boys dominated the music charts -- and the daydreams -- of countless 'tweens.' One inescapable tune was *NSync's "Bye Bye Bye," so catchy was it that
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01/28/2009
In a journey that began 75-years ago this month when Franklin Roosevelt ratified the 21st Amendment to the Constitution that overturned Prohibition, Fannin County commissioners voted to begin the process of enacting an ordinance "to permit consumption, on specific premises, of wines and malt beve
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12/13/2008
2008 -- What a year!! If years were fictional characters, 2008 would surely be the Grinch. Just like the Grinch, it slunk from home to home taking from everyone, the rich and the poor alike. No household was left untouched, in one way or another. "Then he slithered and slunk, with a smile most un
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12/10/2008
An article in today's New York Times -- "Toasting the End of an Error" -- talks about the end of Prohibition which took place just about 75-years ago when FDR ratified the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, which did away with the 18th Amendment's ban on alcohol consumption.The article points ou
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12/08/2008
From November 23, 2008 Holiday Art Show and Sale To December 19, 2008 Blue Ridge Art Association December 05, 2008 Light Up The Basin Downtown Copperhill / McCaysville From December 05, 2008 Christmas Village and Photo's with Santa Clause To December 06, 2008 Downtown McCaysville December 06, 20
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12/05/2008
Housing prices in Blue Ridge and surrounding communities continue their steady march downward. An analysis of year-to-date sales for 2008 shows that the median price for residential properties has dropped 17% over the same time period in 2007, while the total volume sold dropped nearly 35%. There
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12/03/2008
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? ---J. B. Priestley S
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12/02/2008
Joe and Oliver came to the mountains of North Georgia for the same reason so many of us do. Years of big-city living had taken its toll on them -- both psychologically and physically. Peace awaited them on a pristine 324-acre spread in Morganton, a small community just outside of Blue Ridge in t
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11/23/2008
It is cold in the North Georgia mountains tonight. A slender crescent moon is making its journey across the night sky with countless twinkling stars as companions. My husband and I spent the evening in front of a crackling fire. Our three dogs sprawled in front of the hearth, luxuriating in the w
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11/18/2008
Christmas comes early in Blue Ridge -- November 29th to be exact. That is the date of the annual "Light Up Blue Ridge" festival, a day that local children look forward to with almost the same eager anticipation as they wait for Christmas morning itself. On November 29th, beautiful downtown Blue
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11/17/2008
