Author: MJ Kneiser

The weather should be picture perfect Saturday for the annual Lavonia Spring Festival on Main St. Sponsored by the Lavonia Chamber of Commerce, this year some 70-plus vendors will lining both sides of Main St offering everything from crafters to food vendors and a children’s area. Chamber spokesman Janet Appling said in addition to the arts and crafts vendors, there […]

The Franklin County Health Department will be holding their countywide rabies clinic Saturday afternoon at various locations Franklin County Environmental Health Department Director Louis Korff said over the past year, there have not been as many confirmed cases of rabies in Franklin County as in past years. Korff said since the last rabies clinic in May 2015, his office has […]

The non-profit group TORCH is asking people to get their dancing shoes on this weekend to raise money for a downtown project. On Saturday, they will be hosting a Party for the Park dance-a-thon at the Hart County High School gym. The group is trying to raise money to restore Railroad St in downtown Hartwell and turn it into a […]

A child reported missing from Athens-Clarke County has been found safe in Franklin County overnight and the mother is in jail. According to Franklin County Sheriff Steve Thomas, Robin Clark of Athens was wanted by authorities on charges of interference with child custody. Thomas said early this morning, Clark was located and arrested on Kesler Road in Franklin County after […]

Franklin County’s school system ranks in the top five systems in North Georgia after achieving a higher than average score in the Georgia Department of Education College and Career Readiness Performance Index (CCRPI)for the 2014-2015 academic year. The scores for all school systems statewide were released Tuesday. Overall, Franklin County schools received a score of 78 compared to the statewide […]