Author: MJ Kneiser

Another opportunity for job seekers to find employment coming up next week. The Georgia Department of Labor’s (GDOL) Gainesville Career Center is continuing to help Express Employment Professionals recruit up to 60 workers for the Milliken textile plant in New Holland. The latest recruitment fair is planned Tuesday, July 21, from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the career center […]

By Charlie Bauder, WNEG Radio, Toccoa Some of the top 10 and 11-year-old Little League baseball teams in the state are in Toccoa this week. Toccoa Little League is hosting the Georgia 10 and 11-year-old State Baseball Tournament at the Doyle Street Park.  Games started Saturday.  The tournament banquet was Friday at Stephens County High School. Speaking at the banquet […]

Madison County’s Probate Judge will no longer perform marriage ceremonies. According to a report on Mainstreet News.com, Probate Judge Cody Cross said he made the decision several weeks ago before the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the legalization of gay marriage. Cross said, however, his office will still issue marriage licenses to both heterosexual and gay couples. According to Cross,as […]

The Georgia State Patrol Specialized Collision Reconstruction Team (SCRT) continues to investigate a wreck on I-85 overnight that left one person dead and another injured. It happened early Friday morning on I-85 near Exit 149. According to the Banks County Sheriff’s office, deputies responded to a one car fatality about 2:30a this morning. Banks County Sheriff’s spokesperson Sgt. Carissa McFaddin […]

A Franklin County Commissioner is asking the County to find a way to have a monetary penalty repealed that was imposed by the State when voters rejected the T-SPLOST referendum. In July of 2012, Franklin County voters said no to the State Transportation Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax.  Had it passed, the T-SPLOST would have helped fund County road […]