Author: MJ Kneiser

The Franklin County Health Department has been awarded the 2023 Car Seat Mini-Grant by the Georgia Department of Public Health, Injury Prevention Program. Through the Mini-Grant, the Franklin County Health Department and Lavonia Health and Safety will work together to provide car seats and education to financially eligible families in Franklin County. The program is funded by the Governor’s Office […]

Georgia’s December unemployment rate was 3 percent, unchanged from a revised 3 percent in November. Georgia’s unemployment rate was five-tenths of a percent lower than the national December 2022 unemployment rate of 3.5 percent. Initial claims for unemployment, however, were up 9% in December from November. Additionally, job numbers reached another all-time high, increasing by almost 6,000 from November. Jobs […]

In Hart County, two people are charged with trafficking marijuana after Hart County Sheriff’s investigators and agents with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation conducted two search warrants. In a press release issued by Sheriff Mike Cleveland Wednesday, GBI agents and Hart County Investigators went to a home on Ridge Road Tuesday where they recovered what Cleveland said was a “trafficking […]

Franklin County Interim Elections Supervisor Tracie Creason has been given the job permanently. At the Board of Elections meeting Wednesday, Chairman Scott Andrews announced they had hired Creason as the new Elections Supervisor. “It is my honor and privilege to announce that Tracie is our new Elections Supervisor. We are really excited about that. She’s done a great job. She’s […]