Author: MJ Kneiser

The Lavonia City Council, the City Manager, and Mayor are taking time today for a one-day retreat. It is the first of what Mayor Courtney Umbehant hopes will be a series of ongoing planning sessions to map out the future of the City. Today’s meeting will also be an opportunity for the Mayor and Council to set City priorities moving […]

Two Hart County elected officials have announced their plans to run for re-election. Last week, Hart County Clerk of Court Frankie Gray said he intends to seek re-election in May. Gray has been the Hart County Clerk of Court since 2009 and since then he has made a number of important technological upgrades to the office and said saving the […]

The District Attorney’s office for the Northern Judicial Circuit has a new investigator. On his Facebook page this week, DA Parks White announced his office has hired Tracy Rucker. Rucker will work out of the Madison County DA’s satellite office and will work closely with the Madison County Sheriff’s office, the Comer Police Department, and the Danielsville Police Department, as […]

More competition for the U.S. House of Representatives District 9 seat. On Wednesday, Republican and Forsyth County attorney Ethan Underwood has announced his campaign for U.S. Congress. In a press release, Underwood said he is running for U.S. Congress in Georgia’s 9th District because he believes the 9th District needs  “a battle-ready Republican leader who can make decisions and take […]

It’s been just over four months and the Georgia Supreme Court is still considering whether a McDonough man, convicted in the death of a woman who died during a high-speed chase in Franklin County seven years ago, should get a new trial. In 2015, Thanquarious Rashawn Calhoun was sentenced to life in prison after a Franklin County jury found him […]