Author: MJ Kneiser

Beginning today, the Georgia Student Finance Commission is partnering with the University System of Georgia, the Technical College System of Georgia, and private institutions to provide application fee waivers to Georgia high school seniors through the Find Your MATCH in March initiative. Forty-nine Georgia colleges and universities have agreed to waive their application fees for high school seniors between March […]

There will now be three openings on the Franklin County Board of Commissioners. At their work session Tuesday evening, both Commissioner Kyle Foster and County Commission Chair Jeff Jacques announced they will not run for re-election. Both Foster and Jacques made their respective announcements during the District Comments section of the meeting just before adjournment. Foster said he decided after […]

In other business Tuesday evening, Jacques announced the Board will vote Monday night whether to accept the proposed changes to the residential section of the County’s Unified Development Code. In January, Jacques outlined the three proposed major changes to the Residential section. Jacques added another change for residential suburban subdivisions is the addition of a proximity requirement, which would mandate […]

The City of Lavonia Police Department has another opening for a police officer. Police Chief Shane Edmisten said the Department has another opening and is now accepting applications for a night shift patrol officer. Last December Lavonia Police received a $250,000 grant from the US Department of Justice’s Community Oriented Policing Services or COPS program awarded to the Lavonia Police […]