Author: MJ Kneiser

The Dollar General Literacy Foundation has awarded Hart Partners/CIS of Hart County a $1500 grant to support summer literacy. This local grant award is part of over $7.1 million in grants awarded to more than 900 schools, nonprofits and organizations across the 43 states that Dollar General serves. Hart Partners/CIS of Hart County runs literacy programs for Hart County children […]

The Athens Post of the Georgia State Patrol tells WLHR News their investigation into the death of a man on I-85 in Jackson County is ongoing. The man struck and killed by a vehicle on I-85 Tuesday afternoon and has now been Identified. The Georgia State Patrol identified the victim as Aleksander Petrovich age 57 of Asheville, North Carolina. Petrovich was actually […]

By Charlie Bauder, WNEG Radio, Toccoa Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney George Christian said that he has closed the investigation into the death of an inmate at the Stephens County Jail earlier this year. Christian said that he found no evidence of any criminal matter or anything that appeared suspicious in the death of 24-year-old Barry J. Mullinax. Mullinax, who […]

The hospital bond refinancing to is now complete. At their work session Tuesday evening, the Franklin County Board of Commissioners approved two resolutions to tie up two minor issues. The first issue had to do with a form required by the IRS, according to County Manager Beth Thomas. “There is an IRS form in the Bond Resolution that has to […]

In other business Tuesday, the Franklin County commission is correcting a situation concerning a county road. County Road 52 or Sullivan Road, as it is commonly known, was listed as a county road up until a couple of years ago. But somehow, the road got left of the list of county maintained roads and isn’t listed by the Georgia Department […]