Author: MJ Kneiser

The weather has been hot and it hasn’t felt much like fall much less holiday weather, but despite that the Marines’ Toys for Tots Christmas campaign is now underway. October 1, 2019 marked the official kick-off for the Toys for Tots 2019 holiday campaign running through Christmas. U.S. Marines and volunteers will be conducting 812 local toy collection and distribution […]

Ladies, if you have ever wanted to head out to go backpacking or fishing or shooting, but weren’t sure sure where to start, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resources Division can help with that. The Becoming an Outdoors-Woman (BOW) Workshop, is scheduled for Nov. 1-3 at the Charlie Elliott Wildlife Center. It’s a three-day workshop that gives women […]

The hot weather may finally be giving way to much-anticipated fall temperatures, but it lingered long enough to cause our reservoir lakes to go into drought status. On Thursday, the Corps of Engineers Savannah office announced that both Hartwell and Thurmond Lakes have now gone into Drought Trigger Level 1 status. As of Monday, Hartwell Lake’s level was 656.31 ft […]

The National Weather Service in conjunction with the National Oceanic Atmospheric Association has issued a Flash Drought notice for the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. According to NOAA, a flash drought is defned as an event with greater than or equal to two categories of degradation in a four-week period based on the U.S. Drought Monitor. Record-breaking late summer and early […]

The Salvation Army in Toccoa has a new Service Center Director and she’s from our neck of the woods. Recently, Rebecca Dixon began work there as the Service Center Director. Dixon, who is from Lavonia, has a long background in social ministry and she says making the transition from her previous work was no problem. “Previously, I worked for Volunteers […]