Author: MJ Kneiser

Qualifying for local County races begins today and runs through Friday. At the County level, Franklin County voters will have 11 offices to decide on this year. The fees for each race are as follows: BOC Chairman $288.00 BOC Posts 1 and 2 $216.00 BOE Posts 1 and 2 $107.79 Coroner $108.00 Clerk of Court, Probate Judge, Tax Commissioner $1,778.88 […]

Funeral arrangements are expected to be announced this week for Dr. Katherine Reusing, Executive Director of the Northeast Georgia Council on Domestic Violence in Hartwell. Dr. Reusing died suddenly last Wednesday at Emory University after a brief illness. A decision was made by Board members to continue to hold Saturday’s Polar Bear Plunge in her honor, according to one of […]

A head-on collision Saturday evening sent a Royston woman to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. According to Georgia State Patrol Hartwell Post Commander Sgt. First Class Camran Fleming, it happened just before 6p Saturday evening on Highway 106 near Cromers Bridge Road. “A white 2000 Ford Excursion was traveling southbound on GA 106. A white 2021 Honda Accord was traveling […]

The Blood Connection Bloodmobile will be at the Auto Zone Distribution Center this Thursday from 6a to 10a to give people a chance to give the gift of life. Right now hospitals are facing the worst blood donation shortage in decades because of severe recent winter storms in other parts of the country that have prevented donors from attending blood […]

Hart County High School is among the list of schools named by the Georgia Department of Education as an Advanced Placement (AP) Honor School. The school was recognized in the area of Advanced Placement Expansion. AP Expansion Schools are AP schools with a 25% growth in AP student participation from May 2022 to May 2023 and had a minimum of […]