Author: MJ Kneiser

Wednesday night’s severe thunderstorms that rolled through much of Northeast Georgia left the Habitat for Humanity Thrift Store in Lavonia with almost no roof and lots of flooding. The store on SR17 was closed Thursday so volunteers and employees could clean up the mess. Habitat was in the process of replacing the old tin and tar paper roof this week […]

Georgia State Troopers are preparing for full patrols during the peak travel times this coming holiday weekend.  The 78 hour Memorial Day holiday travel period begins at 6 p.m. on Friday and ends at midnight on Memorial Day.  Colonel Mark McDonough, Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Safety, said troopers will be conducting road checks, high visibility patrols, and […]

18-wheelers and other large trucks will no longer be able to drive through the City of Lavonia on city streets. This month, the Lavonia City Council heard the first reading of a new ordinance that will force large trucks to only use state routes when traveling through town. City manager Gary Fesperman said the new law is designed to keep […]

Just a reminder if you have been planning to donate items for the Franklin County Firefighters Association to take to Moore, Oklahoma, you have until 4:30p today to do so. Donations of items for victims of the tornado are being accepted at the Carnesville Fire Department through this afternoon. Nick Clark is a firefighter for the Carnesville Fire Department, who […]

Flags are flying at half staff in the City of Lavonia memory of  longtime city councilman Carl David Whitworth. Whitworth died early Wednesday morning at his home on Bluebird Lane in Lavonia.   Whitworth served as a city councilman in Lavonia from 1972 to 1991 and again from 1993 to 2003.  “David had been with for 29 years in two different […]