You may have noticed a new presence for Woodstock on social media recently. The www.visitwoodstockga.com website is beginning its second year. It’s the website that accompanies advertisements in travel guides and magazines distributed worldwide. But until this month, the social media pages attached to it were for Downtown Woodstock. In order to allow a broader focus on Facebook … [Read more...]

One of the new Board of Commissioners’ priorities is to enact an improved noise ordinance.The current ordinance applies only after 11 p.m., and it’s too vague to enforce consistently. So, the Marshal’s Office gets lots of complaints they can’t do much about.Separately, the Special Events Facility regulations completely prohibit outdoor loudspeakers. That’s probably too … [Read more...]

How can something so right, like coconut cake, be so wrong?Wow, I can’t believe we’re already a month into 2019! The holidays were an absolute whirlwind. We traveled to three states, ran on top of mountains, played hide-and-seek with my furry cousins and played lots of games. And of course, we visited tons of family, including one in particular that wouldn’t stop talking to … [Read more...]

As we begin a new term on the Cherokee County Board of Commissioners, it’s a great time to take stock of our county’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.Cherokee has a long list of strengths. Some are pure gifts from God, including our fabulous geography and climate, and our location where metro Atlanta meets the Appalachian Mountains. Our community has had a … [Read more...]

In the past, work was a location. People drove to work, clocked in and out, and when they left the office, they didn’t return to their work until the following morning.Trying to maintain a healthy work/life balance in a tech-overloaded world, where everything is connected, has much of the workforce looking for healthy ways to unplug and rebalance their personal and … [Read more...]