Author: MJ Kneiser

Now that we are officially in the Fall Season, what better way to enjoy the cooler weather than with a local festival. And there’s a number of them going on this weekend, weather permitting. Lavonia is celebrating the season with its annual Fall Festival on Main St. downtown. The Lavonia Fall Festival takes place Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 […]

We may not get to see it because of the expected cloud cover, but all of North America should be able to see this weekend’s total lunar eclipse Sunday night. Sunday evening, the earth will move between the sun and the moon, causing the moon to have a rusty or reddish tint to it. On the east coast, the eclipse […]

Franklin County Commissioners will wait until their October meeting before voting on whether to rezone two parcels of land on SR198 now owned by a company that plans to build a wood biomass plant. At their work session Tuesday night, the Board of Commissioners heard from Terry Williams, vice-president of Georgia Renewable Power, the company that bought 39 acres this […]

Charlie Bauder, WNEG Radio, Toccoa An area church is expressing interest in using a city building for its activities. Leaders at Mt. Zion Baptist Church on Whitman Street in Toccoa met with Toccoa City Commissioners at a work session last week to discuss the possible use of the old Whitman Street Recreation Center. Willie Woodruff is one of the deacons […]

Franklin County Environmental Health Director Louis Korff is asking for the public’s help to locate a pit bull or pit mix dog that attacked a man over the weekend. Korff said it happened Sunday at a home in Franklin Springs. “Sunday afternoon, a gentleman in Franklin Springs was mowing his lawn and a gray Pit Bull or Pit Bull mix […]