Author: Daniel Brown

The Georgia Dept of Transportation has announced more bid awards for projects in Franklin, Hart, and Elbert counties totaling over $4 million. In Franklin County, the GDOT awarded a $1.197 million dollar contract to Colditz Trucking, Inc of Blairsville for approximately five miles of road resurfacing work on SR51 from the Banks County line extending west of SR59. Expected completion […]

A Toccoa woman is dead and charges are pending after being involved in a multi-car wreck in Habersham County late Wednesday night. According to a report on Access North Georgia, 23-year old Haley Amber Holmes of Toccoa was a passenger in a 1995 Monte Carlo being driven by 17=year old Lindsey Williams, address unknown, at the time of the accident. […]

Courtesy of David Stephens – WSGC, with contribution by Daniel Brown Representative Doug Collins (R-GA) recently completed his inaugural firearm safety program in Hall County. Well over two hundred 9th Congressional District constituents attend the program on March 28th. Collins said he was very pleased with how the program turned out. “I think we had a great attendance and I […]

If you live in or around the city of Lavonia, expect to see firefighters working on the city’s fire hydrants over the weekend.  Crews with the Lavonia Fire Department will be releasing water from all of the fire hydrants.  Chad Marcengill is with the Lavonia Fire Department and says the process is called flowing the hydrants.  Marcengill says this procedure […]

Courtesy of Charlie Bauder – WNEG Radio Franklin and Stephens Counties receive good news on the Highway 17 project. The Georgia Department of Transportation announced Wednesday that it had officially awarded both phases of the Highway 17 widening project.  The two phases of the project, which will create a four-lane divided Highway 17 between the Franklin-Stephens County line and Memorial […]