TALLAPOOSA, Ga. - One of Georgia's most unique New Year's Eve celebrations is well underway. Tallapoosa's sold out Possum Drop, hosted by FOX 5 Atlanta's very own George Franco, began at 2 p.m. on ...

Possum Queen Foundation President Billy Neller and Sunny Roper, both of Litchfield, celebrate Roper being named Possum Queen at the conclusion of the Possum Queen Festival and Auction at Crystal ...

In Tallapoosa, they drop o's and possums. Event organizers haven't clarified why it adjusted the spelling of opossum, but it's clear it is now tradition, and there's no going back. The west ...

WINSTED, CT - 29 December 2024 - 122924JM01 - Possum Queen Festival organizers, John Bongiorno, left, and Billy Neller, both of Litchfield, and Patty Buonocore of Torrington were at Crystal Peak ...

USA Today rates Tallapoosa’s annual Possum Drop as one of the 10 best in America. No joke. Originally named Possum Snout, the northwest Georgia town of Tallapoosa has nurtured a special ...

Pythons are killing the native mammals, Hackathorn said. Raccoon, possum and bobcat have been nearly eradicated by the snakes in the last three decades, according to surveys by the U.S. Geological ...

ST. MARTIN, Miss. (WLOX) - Saturday afternoon, the sixth annual “Pusharatas for Possums” event took over the St. Martin Community Center, benefiting the Wild at Heart Wildlife Rescue.

ulcerans” disease, the researchers said. It is thought the disease may have spread to humans from possum excrement and mosquitoes in the surrounding bushland. A 94-year-old man’s finger was ...

Pogo Possum, Churchy LaFemme, Porky Pine and the rest of the Okefenokee Swamp gang butchered common phrases and skewered current events in the strip nationally syndicated from 1949 to 1975.