Author: MJ Kneiser

The City of Lavonia is applying for a $2.2 million loan from the Georgia Environmental Finance Authority for improvements to the City’s Gateway Industrial Park sewer line project. City Manager Charles Cawthon tells WLHR News GEFA has already offered the City the $2.2 million. At last week’s meeting Cawthon asked the City Council to approve the paperwork in order for […]

Preparations are underway for the fifth annual First Responders/Emergency/Safety Personnel Thank You dinner. Sponsored by the Franklin County Rotary Club, the special dinner for first responders, emergency responders, law enforcement, and fire fighters will take place Wednesday, October 16 from 4p to 7p at the Bar H BBQ in Franklin Springs. Emergency workers have the option of eating there or […]

U.S. Representative for the 9th District, Doug Collins, says a proposed Keep Americans Safe Act will do nothing to keep Amercians safe. Sponsored by U.S. Representative Theadore Deutch, a Democrate from Florida, House Bill 1186 would establish a new criminal offense for the import, sale, manufacture, transfer, or possession of a large capacity ammunition feeding device. The bill would exclude […]

By Ethan Jordan, WNEG News, Toccoa In Stephens County, a stolen firearm from Gwinnett County is recovered. It happened September 6 during a routine traffic stop. According to Stephens County Sheriff Randy Shirley, a deputy pulled over a speeding vehicle on the Highway 17 Bypass near the Habersham County line.  Shirley said the vehicle was traveling 93-mph in a 65-mph zone. […]

Today is 9/11 – on this day we remember the 3,000 innocent Americans who were killed in three separate terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, DC in 2001. Remembrance events are taking place across the State and the Country today and some have already happened. In our area: The VFW Post 7720 in Cornelia will host a candlelight vigil […]