Author: MJ Kneiser

Saturday is the US Postal Service’s Stamp Out Hunger food drive. Sponsored by the National Association of Letter Carriers, the annual event collects non-perishable food for local food banks. The food drive is a way for customers to help people in their own community. People can donate a bag of non-perishable food items and leave it by their mailbox Saturday […]

Franklin County High School has a new Principal. At Tuesday’s Board of Education meeting, Superintendent Melanie Burton-Brown welcomed Matt Stowers as the new high school principal. “I’d like to new Franklin County High School Mr. Matt Stowers. Mr. Stowers comes to us from Hall County with 10 years of leadership experience including CTAE Director, Athletic Director, and Assistant Principal. So […]

In Hart County, the family of a man who was struck and killed along a roadway last November is now offering a reward for information leading to the arrest of the person responsible. Hart County Sheriff Mike Cleveland tells WLHR News, the body of Dephonso Heard was found on Highway 172/the Bowman Highway around midnight November 1, 2022, between Valley […]

Two Virginia men wanted in South Carolina are behind bars in Hart County, awaiting a bond hearing after being captured Tuesday afternoon. According to Georgia State Patrol Hartwell Post Sgt. Ray Dean at about 1:30p Troopers from Post 52 were contacted by the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office in regard to a BOLO for a gray Nissan sedan bearing a Virginia […]

Franklin County Commissioners have gotten their first glimpse of the preliminary FY2024 budget Tuesday at the first of three public hearings. County Manager Derrick Turner presented the proposed budget in a PowerPoint presentation. Turner said the County needs to think not just in terms of the next fiscal year but needs to adopt more of a longer perspective. Turner said […]