Author: MJ Kneiser

With the threat of Avian influenza now on Georgia’s doorstep, one local businessman has developed a system to disinfect all trucks and vehicles coming onto a poultry farm. Jeff Schwan is the owner of Farm Guard Systems, LLC. Schwan has developed a disinfecting drive-through spray system that he says will kill the avian influenza virus on all vehicles entering a […]

Tax season may be over but the tax scams continue. This week, callers to WLHR News from the Lavonia area reported receiving calls from people claiming to be with the IRS telling them they owed the IRS money and demanding they pay up. According to Georgia IRS spokesman Mark Green, this scam has been around for about a year. Green […]

A Lavonia woman is charged with a home break in and burglary in Stephens County. According to Stephens County Sheriff Randy Shirley, it occurred on Oak Valley Road back on April 29. Shirley said that someone entered a residence on Oak Valley Road and stole six rifles, ammunition, and a laptop computer, all totaling more than $7,000 in value. The […]

Georgia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in May was 6.3 percent, up one-tenth of a percentage point from a revised 6.2 percent in April. The preliminary April rate was reported at 6.3 percent, but was revised down by one-tenth of a percentage point. The rate was 7.3 percent in May 2014. “Our labor force expanded for the 18th month in a […]

Visitation will be held this evening in Carnesville for longtime Carnesville businessman and Carnesville Fire Chief Bobby Sullivan. Sullivan died Tuesday at the Hart Care Center after an extended illness. The son of Dr. Robert Sullivan Sr., Bobby Sullivan had owned the Cotton States Insurance Agency in Carnesville for many years and had also served as a Carnesville City Councilman. […]