Author: MJ Kneiser

Sign up for help doing your taxes from the AARP Tax-Aide program is now available in Hartwell. “Tax-Aide provides FREE tax preparation service, including electronic filing of returns during the tax season for anyone who needs it,” said Dixie Dennis, a volunteer tax preparer for the Tax-Aide program. ” There are no upper or lower income or age limits for […]

If you are heading up from Banks County today on I-85 you might want to consider using SR59 northbound instead. The Georgia Department of Transportation will be performing some emergency road maintenance on I-85 northbound today. Crews will be replacing a concrete slab and doing spall repair on the roadway and will have the right lane closed between mile markers […]

When there’s an emergency at your house, you want first responders, firefighters, and law enforcement to be able to find your home quickly. That’s why Franklin County’s EMA/911 and Planning and Zoning departments are working on an updated plan to standardize how addresses are displayed. At their work session last week, EMA Director Ryan Parks and Planning and Zoning Director […]

By Ethan Jordan, WNEG An autopsy is scheduled for the body of a toddler who was found dead in a Toccoa home. Toccoa police responded to a call the evening of Monday, January 30 of an unresponsive child at home in the area of Riley St., according to GBI Agent in Charge Kimberly Williams with the GBI Regent 8 office […]

This week is Severe Weather Preparedness Week and The Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency, in partnership with the National Weather Service, is encouraging Georgians to learn and understand the threats of severe weather and prepare for various weather events. GEMA and Homeland Security Director Chris Stallings says with the recent severe storms, tornado outbreaks, and straight-line winds that […]