Author: MJ Kneiser

Franklin County’s Environmental Health Department is working with the company that has a contracted poultry operation on a farm on Toms Creek Road to eliminate a huge rat infestation. The company is OK Foods, Inc. out of Fort Smith, Arkansas, whose parent company is Mexican poultry producer, Industrias Bachoco. Sunday morning, Franklin County Sheriff’s deputies came upon miles of dead […]

This time of year, you might be looking at ways to help children in need have a happy Christmas and there is one group that is often overlooked in our holiday giving. It’s foster children. Children living in foster care often have never had a Christmas or presents and their foster parents struggle to provide some sense of family and […]

Two Stephens County students and two Elbert County students are among a list of 24 students nominated by U.S. Representative Doug Collins to the nation’s four service academies. Tiffany Haddock, and James Carter of Stephens County High School and Jacob Heydinger, and Gino Saponari both of Elbert County Comprehensive High School were nominated by Collins Tuesday. Students must be nominated […]

By Charlie Bauder, WNEG Radio, Toccoa Stephens County economic development officials said that Caterpillar plans at this point to wind down operations at its Hayestone-Brady plant the first part of 2016. Stephens County Development Authority Executive Director Tim Martin updated the authority board at its meeting on Thursday. Martin said that Caterpillar is still operating at full power as the […]

Lavonia City Manager Gary Fesperman has retired. On Monday, a drop-in reception was held for Fesperman at the historic Lavonia Train Depot. Fesperman said he was touched by the response from the community to his departure and called his retirement bittersweet. “You look back at what you did and where the City is now compared to where it was and […]