25th Anniversary Fall Atlanta Home Show Returns to the Cobb Galleria Centre

Wondering how you are going to afford to remodel your home on a tight budget? The 2008 Fall Atlanta Home Show, presented by The Home Depot Home Services, has a great line up of speakers sharing lessons in home improvement for both the inside and outside of your home...
Sep 22, 2008

New Book, the "Lake Hartwell Area Recreation Guide" Reveals Exciting Things to do in 35 Towns and Cities in Upstate South Carolina and Northeast Georgia

The Savannah, Tugaloo and Seneca Rivers all join to make Lake Hartwell, which provides opportunities for boating, water skiing, swimming and fishing. This man-made lake has 55,900 acres of water and about 962 miles of shoreline...
Sep 21, 2008

Wild Facts: Salamanders’ secretive lives

More species of salamanders live in Georgia than any other group of amphibians or reptiles.  Nevertheless, perhaps because these creatures are shy and silent, most people know little about them...
Sep 19, 2008

The 2008 North Georgia State Fair Opens Today

Sept. 18 through Sept. 28, the North Georgia State Fair features live music, free attractions and shows, farm animals, flower shows, blue ribbon competitions, local square dancers, fair foods, and games and rides at the Great James H. Drew Exposition – one of the largest carnival midways in the United States...
Sep 18, 2008

Area Students and Parents Encouraged to take part in College Prep Series

Free event open to all middle school and high school students...
Sep 17, 2008

Backstage Pass: Toby Keith

Channel 2 and 94.9 The Bull take you behind the scenes with one of country music’s hottest artists, Toby Keith. Channel 2 cameras rolled as Toby’s crew set up the staging, sound and lights at Lakewood Amphitheater for the Atlanta show last week...
Sep 17, 2008

Northeast Georgia Town Readies for WWII Reunion Weekend, October 3-5, 2008

In 1942 with the world at war, the United States government acquired a mountain and the surrounding land in Toccoa, GA as a training facility for a new type of soldier, the paratrooper. Young men from across the nation who had little in common except a shared future, descended on the small north Georgia town to train to defend their country...
Sep 17, 2008

Four Five-star Establishments List Tiger Mountain Wines

Tiger Mountain Vineyards’ wines are now listed at four of the state’s famous five-star restaurants: Bacchanalia and Quinones in Atlanta , The Cloister in Sea Island and the Ritz-Carlton Dining Room in Buckhead. The Rabun County winery is co-owned by two Tiger families, John and Martha Ezzard and Bill and Leckie Stack...
Sep 16, 2008

Olympic Swimmer Dara Torres Chairs Callanwolde Benefit Gala

US Olympic swimmer Dara Torres brought back three silver medals from Beijing this summer, raising her career total to twelve. This fall, Callanwolde Fine Arts Center welcomes Ms. Torres as honorary chair of its benefit gala Masks Under the Moon...
Sep 12, 2008

Georgia Bioscience Technology Institute Launches New Web Site

Are you interested in forensics or criminal investigation? Would you like to develop new medicines to treat disease? Or, find ways to stop pollution? If those type of jobs interest you, you may be destined for a career in biotechnology...
Sep 12, 2008

2008 Tour Business Hopping Over 2007 at Kangaroo Conservation Center

Thanks to a combination of national publicity and an influx of "staycationers" during a summer filled with high gas prices through the region, the Kangaroo Conservation Center 's mid-season admission total is up 45 percent over this time one year ago...
Sep 11, 2008

Ovarian Cancer Institute Fall Jamboree at Park Tavern:

Ovarian Cancer Institute Fall Jamboree at Park Tavern: Outdoor Family Fun, Food and Live Entertainment Highlights Include Performances by My Friend Ian's Band and Kicking Demonstrations by Georgia Force Arena Football Kicker, Carlos Martinez...
Sep 11, 2008

Tickets Now Available for the 2008 PACE Awards

Annual event honors metro Atlanta ’s outstanding workplaces for commuters.  On Thursday, Oct. 16, The Clean Air Campaign® will honor the region’s outstanding workplaces for commuters at the 2008 PACE Awards luncheon.  PACE Awards are given to employers, property management companies and individuals who have shown commitment, innovation and leadership in promoting commute options programs that reduce traffic and improve air quality...

Sep 9, 2008

Rabun County "Mountaineer Festival"

From 1961 through 1978 the folks in northeast Georgia came together in Rabun County to eat great food, test their strength and agility, dare each other to attempt great feats, dance, listen to mountain music and generally have a lot of fun. After an absence of 30 years – the Mountaineer Festival returns on September 19th and 20th...
Sep 8, 2008

Dear EarthTalk: What’s the deal nowadays with aerosol spray cans? I thought that the ozone-depleting chemicals used in them were eliminated back in the 1970s. Is this true? If so, what is now used as a propellant? Are aerosols still bad for the ozone layer? -- Sheila, Abilene, TX

The aerosol spray can has a storied history in the United States. First invented in the 1920s by U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists to pressurize insect spray, American soldiers eventually used the technology to help ward off Malaria in the South Pacific during World War II...
Sep 7, 2008