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Marshals shore up Shorewood

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    The Shorewood neighborhood on Lake Hartwell is looking much better than it did when Marilyn Bathen and her husband moved there 15 years ago.

Vaccinations climb upward

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By Tom Law
The Toccoa Record
    The number of Stephens County residents who have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine ticked above the 17,000 mark this week.

Unemployment on the rise

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By Tom Law

    Even with job openings in abundance, Stephens County’s unemployment rate increased to 5.2 percent in June, up from 4.6 percent in May.

Coan memoir to be published

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    Breaking Free – Shattering Expectations and Thriving with Ambition in Pursuit of Gold, a memoir by three-time Paralympic swimming gold medalist and world record holder McKenzie Coan, will be pu

Local doctor encourages vaccination

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I have been distressed to see the plethora of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and myths on the internet and now in letters to the editor, which have contributed to an unacceptably low vaccination r