Nerd night was not missed last week with the opening of “Battleship.” There was a meeting and the “nerdcensus” was that “Battleship” wasn’t worth the money, especially since most of us have seen “The Avengers” at least twice. However, Nerd Night recommenced with Men in Black 3, despite the normal nerd headquarters being busy with […]
Read More »Pickens High School Class of 2012 Graduation
The Pickens High School class of 2012 commencement exercise was held on Saturday May, 19th 2012. The graduation ceremonies were held in Dragon Stadium beginning at 9am.
Read More »Pickens’ Parker Parks at Jasper Drug Store
New Pickens High School head football coach, Chris Paker, met with the Dragons faithful in an informal “meet and greet” at Jasper Drug Store.
Read More »Zaxby’s Fire Damages Kitchen and the Drive-Thru
The Zaxby’s on Bill Wigington Parkway, across from Kroger, caught fire. The fire began in the kitchen early morning. The fire appears to be accidental; however, it can not be ruled as such until the state completes an investigation.
Read More »Pickens Dragons Spring Football Game
The Pickens High School Dragons football team held its end of spring football “Green & White” games. The junior varsity game was played with out an official score and the varsity game ended in a 7-7 tie.
Read More »Pickens High School Spring Game
The Pickens High School Dragons spring football “Green and White Game” will take place Friday May 11th.
Read More »“Earth’s Mightiest Heroes” Make Magnificent Movie
While the cinematic adventures of “LT and the Nerds” have not become, to quote Barney Stinson, “Legend, wait for it, Dary!” like the music of “Eddie and the Cruisers” (the under 30 crowd just ask your parents or Google it), they have become somewhat of a tradition. Therefore it is no secret that the biggest […]
Read More »Five Dragons Hope to Turn Up Heat in State Track Meet
Pickens High School’s track and field team will send five participates to the State Track Meet. Only those competitors, who placed in the top eight at the Sectionals meets, are allowed to continue on to the State meet.
Read More »Pickens Picks Up Places Six and Eight
The Pickens High School Dragonettes and Dragons track teams participated in the Region 7-AAA meet. The Dragonettes finished in sixth place while the Dragons finished in eighth place.
Read More »Pickens Dragons Injury
Pickens Dragons third baseman, Eric Justice will miss three weeks due to a concussion.
Read More »Jasper Recoginizes Jacobs
Jasper mayor, John Weaver, signed a proclamation recognizing Pickens High School Dragonettes head girls basketball coach, Kevin Jacobs for his 300th win.
Read More »Pickens Picks Up Upset of Cartersville
The Pickens High School Dragons baseball team traveled to Cartersville to rain on the Purple Hurricanes parade. Pickens picked up the upset victory, 4-2, the Dragons’ third win of the season. Conversely the Hurricanes, currently ranked fifth in the state in AAA, picked up its third loss of the season.
Read More »Meltons Make New Additions in Free Agency
The Melton family added free agent infant Logan Isabell Melton March 15th 2012 at 6:12pm. The seven pound four ounce addition looks to bring balance to the force that is the Melton household. All jokes aside, sorry for the Rakim, my wife bared her soul and had our daughter last week so I’ve been changing […]
Read More »Chipper Jones Retirement
Atlanta Braves third baseman Chipper Jones announced Thursday that he has made the decision to retire at the end of the upcoming 2012 Major League Baseball season.
Read More »Warhawks have “Jones” for Pride of Pickens
Pickens High School star basketball player, Spencer Jones, signed his letter of intent to play for the Warhawks of Auburn University Montgomery. Jones, a senior, will play under the tutelage of head coach Larry Chapman.
Read More »Super Tuesday’s Too Soon Super Thoughts
With it being Super Tuesday I figured I’d dispense some super thoughts. First things first, as a die hard Falcons fan, I must say that I’m supremely super excited that the Falcons franchised Brent Grimes, a.k.a. “Optimist Grimey.”
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