Author: MJ Kneiser

Two men are on trial in federal court in Athens  this week, almost three years after they allegedly committed an armed robbery at the North Georgia Credit Union in Lavonia. Orlando Brock and 43-year old Walter Butler of Bowersville have chosen to have jury trials.  Brock is charged with armed robbery and brandishing a firearm during the commission of a […]

By Charlie Bauder, WNEG Radio, Toccoa A new Doyle Street Pool should be ready in Toccoa by later this summer. Monday, city commissioners unanimously approved bids for both the construction of the pool itself and the construction of the accompanying pool building.   Sunbelt Pools of Atlanta will build the pool at a bid price of $460,000. “We had no bids […]

Enrollment is coming up soon for this year’s ninth annual Franklin Community Players  2014 Youth Summer Theatre Program.    The two-week program is scheduled for July 7th through 18th, at the Lavonia Cultural Center and is open to children aged 8 to 15.  The Youth Theatre Program will operate Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Friday, […]

The woman at the center of an animal shelter scandal in Rabun County is scheduled to go on trial next month. Lowanda “Peanut” Kilby is the former manager of what was once the Boggs  Mountain Animal Shelter in Clayton. Kilby is accused of allegedly soliticing donations for the support of shelter dogs and cats with the promise that those animals […]

Despite their requests, parents of the Franklin County High School Lions baseball team will get no definitive reason why the board chose to remove Brent Honeywell as coach. Honeywell was removed from coaching by the Board of Education after an incident at a Burger King in which team members voluntarily drank a concoction of milk shake mixed with other non-alcoholic […]