Author: MJ Kneiser

Hart County Extension Office has a new Agriculture and Natural Resources Agent. He is Josh Halpin.  Halpin started his new job on May 1.  He is a graduate of UGA with a degree in agri-business, and received his Master’s degree in range management from Texas A&M.  He comes to Hart County from Montana where he was employed by the Bureau […]

Opening statements get underway today in Rabun County in the theft and racketeering trial against Lowanda Peanut Kilby, former manager of the Boggs Mountain Animal Shelter. In a 60-count indictment last year, Kilby was accused of 29 separate acts of computer theft and theft by taking as well as one count of theft by taking and a violation of the […]

By Charlie Bauder, WNEG Radio, Toccoa The hearing on Wilbros’ appeal of an EPD administrative order calling on the facility to shut down is underway. That hearing began Monday in the Georgia Office of State Administrative Hearings in Atlanta. Wilbros received the hearing after challenging the administrative order that the state’s Environmental Protection Division issued in January. The EPD stated […]

This year’s March for Babies is officially underway in Franklin County. A kick-off reception was held Monday evening at the Lavonia Train Depot. Sponsored by the March of Dimes, the annual campaign raises money for research to prevent premature births and low birth weight babies. Ashley Young-Roesler is the Division Director for the March of Dimes Central Georgia Division.  Young-Roesler […]

A teenage boy is expected to make a full recovery after a boating accident on Lake Hartwell over the weekend. It happened Saturday afternoon near the Milltown campground in Hart County.  “It appears that he was on the front of a pontoon and fell off the boat,” said Georgia Department of Natural Resources Law Enforcement officer Craig Fulgum. “The propeller […]