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PAGE 2A PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 21.2023
O'bJCILL OUTDOORS
BY O'NeiLL WILLIAMS
Locating White-
tail habits will ele
vate your success
this season.
He’s out there somewhere
growing his furry antlers.
Now is the time for you to lo
cate him before the hunts
begin over two or three
months, when his antlers will
be slick, tall and wide.
On these warm evenings,
drive to your hunting spot
and scope the crop fields.
That’ll be easy. If there are
no crops fields where you
hunt, pick a clear cut for a
bachelor group of bucks part
nered in a clear-cut or power
line right-of-way. They do
that.
Get up early and try a few
mornings quietly watching
the fields and edges at sun
rise. Look for bucks crossing
the fields, ambling along the
tree lines, and slipping back
O’Neill says be out now looking if you want to have suc
cess later in deer season.Plenty of bug spray, he also advises
if you are sitting in the woods at this time of year.
into the woods as they mosey
off for a morning nap. You’ll
have a good idea when they
go to bed after feeding during
the nights.
Scout out new areas you
haven’t tried before on foot.
Maybe you already have
been hunting a couple of
hundred acres for years,
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which is typical for Georgia
hunters. You’ve probably
only hunted 50 of those
acres, or maybe much less.
You don’t want to spook
bucks, of course, but if you
jump a few on your hike, you
may have just found a new
area filled with activity to
consider. Give it a try so peo
ple won’t call you lazy. If you
just busted a buck in an un
tried, you just widened your
hunting area for later.
Just make it pleasant with
lots of bug/tick spray, snake
boots and camo. Even if you
don’t jump ‘new’ bucks,
you’ll find their well-used
trails and new season targets
for you. It’s so easy to get
wrapped up in preparing your
land to hunt that you neglect
the areas. That’s a mistake,
because what happens across
the spreading area could add
50 percent or more of the
deer movements in your area.
Scouting pays off, even if
you don’t connect on a good
buck during archery season,
it’s a good time to prepare
and see what’s out there.
As the rut begins and the
month’s days turn Fall, big
deer, running on increased
testosterone, just might bring
him into your newly found
area and you just might take
him there.
[Find out more or contact
the writer at
O'NeillOutside.com.
O’Neill’s column appears
twice monthly in the
Progress, generally the first
and third weeks of the
month.}
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Old Jail Tours
Tour the interesting
Old Jail on North Main,
operated by the Pickens
Historical Society every
Thursday between 2 p.m.
and 4 p.m. See the original
cell block upstairs and the
renovated 1906 sheriff and
family quarters down
stairs, plus peek inside the
Cherokee era cabin lo
cated alongside the jail.
For more information
on the Historical society,
which hosts an array of
speakers and program, fol
low them on Facebook at
Pickens Historical Society.
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Sunday Sales will be discounted.
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Bryant reappointed Mayor Pro Tent
Talking Rock to sell county land
for future fire station
photo/Max Caylor
Part of a new downtown Talking Rock business, Petti
coat Junction, will include an event center now under con
struction right on the town’s main street.
By Max Caylor
Progress Writer
In a special called meeting
on September 14, the Talking
Rock City Council did a bit
of political maneuvering
reappointing James Bryant
mayor pro tem. City Attorney
Jeff Rushbridge oversaw the
proceedings.
Bryant resigned his Post 4
seat to run for mayor which
left an open council seat.
Members voted to have
Bryant fill the open seat and
then proceeded to name him
mayor pro tem. Bryant has
no opposition and will likely
be elected mayor at which
time the council will appoint
someone to fill the vacant
seat. Bryant thanked the
council for their confidence
in him.
Attractive updates were
given on the town’s marquee
celebration known as “Her
itage Days” which will be
from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. on Sat
urday, Oct. 21- Sunday, Oct.
22.
Active demos of chair
weaving and wood lathe
turnings will be featured
along with art and craft ven
dors.
“We have 12 food trucks
and six bands lined up to
serve and entertain our visi
tors,” said councilmember
and event chair Mary Bre-
gantini. The popular “Duck
Race For Charity” will bene
fit the Pickens Pregnancy
Center and Pickens Animal
Rescue Ranch. Last year the
event raised $1,000.
In other official business
the council rolled back the
millage rate to 1.999 for
2024, sold 2.1 acres to Pick
ens County for $37,000 con
tingent on commitment to
build a fire station and re
ported the park parking lot
had been paved at a cost of
$20,700 from SPLOST
funds.
City trash service, wine
sales, city boundary lines,
food pantry container and
quotes for a new roof at City
Hall were all discussed.
The next regular council
will be on Thursday, Oct. 5
and 7 p.m. with a work ses
sion at 5:30 p.m.
Georgia Tech, UGA make list
of top-10 public universities
By Dave Williams
Bureau Chief
Capitol Beat News Service
ATLANTA - Georgia has landed two of
its universities among the ranks of the top-
10 public universities in the nation.
Georgia Tech is third in rankings platform
Niche’s rankings of the 10 best public uni
versities, while the University of Georgia
placed ninth on the list.
The rankings, released last week, are
based on an analysis of academics, admis
sions, financial, and student life data from
the U.S. Department of Education. The rank
ing compares more than 500 public colleges
and state universities.
The University of Georgia moved up one
spot in the rankings, having placed 10th last
year.
“The University of Florida was the only
other school in the Southeastern Conference
to make the top-10 list. The top public insti
tution on the Niche rankings this year was
the University of California at Los Angeles
(UCLA). The University of Michigan placed
second in the rankings.
WE NEED A CHANGE AT JASPER CITY HALL!
STOP THE WASTE! STOP THE INCOMPETENCE!
STOP their ARROGANCE!
• ALL INCUMBENT COUNCIL MEMBERS MUST BE
DEFEATED! IF JUST ONE INCUMBENT COUNCIL
MEMBER IS RE-ELECTED THERE WILL BE NO
CHANGE AT CITY HALL. JUST ONE INCUMBENT
WILL LEAVE THIS COUNCIL IN TOTAL CONTROL!
• IT WILL BE BUSINESS AS USUAL WITH THREE
EXISTING INCUMBENT CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS
STILL IN POWER AFTER THIS ELECTION.
• THIS EXISTING COUNCIL HAS NO
ACCOUNTABILITY, ONLY DENIABILITY.
• DID THE EXISTING MAYOR AND COUNCIL
REALLY THINK THAT THE CITIZENS OF JASPER
ARE SO DUMB THAT THEY COULD GET BY WITH
THE TAX INCREASES
PROPOSEDAND
APPROVED IN LAST
WEEK’S COUNCIL MEETING
AS PRINTED IN THE
PICKENS COUNTY
PROGRESS? OR IS IT THAT
THEY JUST DON’T CARE
WHAT WE VOTING
CITIZENS AND TAXPAYERS
THINK?
• IF YOU ELECT ME, I ALONG
WITH THE THREE NEW
COUNCIL MEMBERS, WILL
END THIS FOOLISHNESS.
LORA
ERDMAN
MAYOR
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