Author: MJ Kneiser

A North Carolina man is dead after a wreck on I-85 Monday night. It happened about 5:45p Monday evening on I-85 Southbound near mile marker 167. Georgia State Patrol Hartwell Post Trooper Richard Fleming said the driver of an 18-wheeler traveling southbound lost control. “The vehicle was traveling south and traveled off the west shoulder of the roadway,” Fleming said. […]

The GBI is now involved in the search for two cars stolen from a Royston dealership sometime over the New Year’s  weekend. Taken was a 1956 Black and Chrome Chevy Belair and a 2015 Orange Dodge Challenger with a black racing stripe. The cars were stolen from Tri-County Chevrolet and the dealership is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading […]

Hart County’s Board of Commissioners has a full line up when they meet for their first meeting of the new year tonight. In addition to electing a new board chair and vice-chair, the Board is also expected to make the 2016 board appointments. Also on tonight’s agenda, the board is expected to take up the issue of the STELAR Act […]

Franklin County’s Board of Commissioners has re-affirmed the County Manager and re-appointed the County Clerk for another year. At their meeting last week, Board Chair Thomas Bridges noted County Manager Beth Thomas did not need to be formally re-appointed because she has a three-year contract. Bridges said however, he and the entire Board are very happy with Thomas’s work so […]

Clear Creek OB/GYN, the practice of James R. Bauerband, M.D., is now part of St. Mary’s Medical Group, a division of St. Mary’s Health Care System that includes 15 physician practices, 35 physicians and 10 medical residents serving all of Northeast Georgia. Dr. Bauerband has been providing comprehensive women’s health services in the Lavonia area since 2012, including pre-natal care, […]