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For 20 years, we’ve helped celebrate the birthdays of your children. We’ve kept you posted about businesses opening in the community. We’ve announced the accomplishments of your young students, and given a voice to many professionals in the community with advice to share.

Now it’s our turn to celebrate! 2016…

The Right Job Can Change Your Life

The Right Job (view article as seen in ENJOY Cherokee – Summer 2016)

It was a game-changer for Matt Ringer. Not the sort of thing that usually comes from an off-the-cuff remark, but that’s exactly how he landed a new job just minutes…

LAT Apparel, previously known as LAT Sportswear, celebrated the ribbon-cutting of the company’s new enormous multi-use building in Ball Ground on Thursday alongside hundreds of its employees, staff and associates.

Formerly known as LAT Sportswear, LAT has called Cherokee County and Ball Ground home for over…

Cherokee Office of Economic Development (COED) President, Misti Martin has been named among North America’s Top 50 Economic Developers. This list is created annually by Consultant Connect and recognizes economic developers and site consultants for “excellent innovation and success in building the communities they serve.”

“This annual list recognizing…

For the second consecutive year, Cherokee County has been identified as having an Innovation Economy. Cherokee is one of the five Georgia counties to have bested the national average on the Innovation Index, according to a report released by the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG). Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, and Oconee…

U.S. News and World Report has named two Cherokee County high schools as among the best nationally.

Etowah High School and Sequoyah High School earned silver medals under the magazine’s ranking methodology for “Best High Schools in America.”

Sequoyah ranked 1,950 in the U.S., and Etowah was 2,169. The news…

The Cherokee County School District for the 11th time has been named one of the top 10 large school systems nationwide for its effective use of technology in education. The honor is a result of the annual Digital School Districts Survey conducted by the Center for Digital Education and the National…

The Georgia Department of Economic Development’s Workforce division announced today the launch of a grant and scholarship program designed to strengthen Georgia’s skilled-trade workforce through it’s Go Build Georgia program.

Go Build Georgia (GBG) and the Go Build Georgia Foundation have partnered with the Career, Technical and Agricultural Education Division…

Teasley Middle School recently celebrated becoming the nation’s first middle school to have all its teachers achieve Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) certified.

The program requires 16 hours of training for teachers on Microsoft’s suite of computer-based resources, including productivity, lesson planning and research-based programs.

A staff of 110 Teasley teachers…

There is something to be said about working in your home community. The sense of ownership that comes with living, working and enjoying the quality of life your town or county provides is empowering. As a job search begins, many people don’t know how to find work locally. They don’t…

Northside Hospital, which is building a replacement hospital to take the place of the current Northside Hospital-Cherokee, is tracking and sharing construction progress with the community via its new website, www.northsidecherokee.com. Updates on the projected two-year construction, which began in March 2015, include a live-feed camera, details about…

In 2015, nearly 1000 job seekers attended the inaugural Cherokee Career Expo. Scores of Cherokee’s largest employers were on-hand, looking to hire for over 600 positions. After the staggering success, the Cherokee Office of Economic Development (COED) knew that this event needed to continue, a notion that was reinforced by…