Author: MJ Kneiser

As work continues to make repairs to the Franklin County Board of Elections office in Carnesville, Elections staff will be working out of the old Carnesville Elementary School on Hull Ave. Elections Supervisor Tracie Creason said all of the elections equipment is being stored there as well until representatives from the Company can take them to be looked at. Creason […]

Two South Carolina men have been indicted for an incident that happened in April involving a high-speed chase and a stolen vehicle that ended with an injured deputy and two damaged cruisers. Nikael Elijah Pennington and Jonathan Roosevelt Brown were indicted on June 1 by a Hart County Grand Jury. On April 4, Anderson, SC Sheriff’s deputies tried to pull […]

A Madison County man has been charged with arson and burglary in connection with a fire earlier this month in Commerce. Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John F. King tells WLHR News that on June 2, investigators from the State Fire Marshal’s Office responded to a fire loss on Minish Road in Commerce at the request of the Madison County […]

Now that the weather has turned warm, people are already out on boats and personal watercraft on Hartwell Lake. But many of those boaters are inexperienced and not familiar with Lake Hartwell. And that’s one reason why the local chapter of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 25 holds boating safety classes at their operations center at Portman Marina from […]

A Hart County man has been indicted on one count of felony Exploitation of an Elder Person. Attorney General Chris Carr announced Wednesday that Lawrence Montgomery, Jr. was the personal representative for an elderly relative who lived in a nursing facility. According to the indictment that relative was Montgomery’s mother who was in a nursing home due to her mental […]