Author: MJ Kneiser

Early voting for the state Democratic Party run-off begins today and runs through Friday. The run-off takes place Tuesday, June 21. This week and on the 21st, voters will cast their ballots in Franklin County at the Board of Elections and Registration office in Carnesville for all Franklin County precincts. Early voting this week takes place from 9a to 5p. […]

A Franklin County woman wants to keep the history of Franklin County alive by turning the family homestead into a nature and education center. Marie Hendrix lives on Fairview Road in Lavonia and applied for a conditional use permit to turn about 24 acres on Thomas Road into an event center. At last week’s public hearing Hendrix the acreage in […]

The Georgia Bureau of Investigations Child Exploitation and Computer Crimes Unit has arrested two Northeast Georgia men. According to GBI spokeswoman Natalie Ammons on Tuesday, June 7, 25-year-old Colby Dean Tucker, of Banks County, GA, was arrested on one count of Sexual Exploitation of Children (Possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material), one count of Sexual Exploitation of Children (Distribution of […]

A Lavonia man is facing multiple charges after a shooting incident Wednesday night. It happened about 7p Wednesday in the Springview Heights neighborhood according to Lavonia Police Chief Bruce Carlisle. Carlisle said the victim called 911 saying he had been shot and gave the name of the person he said shot him. “Lavonia Police were dispatched to the residence in […]

Hart County Coroner Mike Adams says it will be at least next week before the identity of the man who died in Wednesday night’s truck fire on 85 is released. Adams tells WLHR News they do think, however, that they know who the victim was. The body of the driver has been sent to the GBI Crime Lab for autopsy […]