Author: MJ Kneiser

The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta has put out its updated recommendations for COVID, Flu and RSV vaccinations for 2024-2025. CDC officials recommend that everyone ages 6 months and older receive an updated 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine when these vaccines are available later this year. The 2024-2025 vaccine is formulated to protect against currently circulating variants of COVID-19 and will […]

A notice for people living in the town of Bowersville. The Town of Bowersville will be shutting off water today to fix a water leak. Town authorities say they apologize for any inconvenience and hope to have it back on as soon as possible.

We have an update on the Eastanollee teen who died last week from injuries he received in a church van accident in Habersham County. The driver who authorities say hit that van is identified as 64-year-old Barry Clark of Hartwell. Clark is now charged with Vehicular Homicide. On Friday, Habersham County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Rob Moore said Clark turned himself […]

As of noon Sunday, 15 people had died on Georgia roadways over the July 4th holiday weekend, according to the Georgia Dept of Public Safety. One of those was in the District 2 region which includes Franklin, Hart, Madison, and Elbert counties. Georgia State Patrol Trooper Cpl William Jordan of Post 52 in Hartwell tells WLHR News it happened around […]

It was a fairly busy holiday weekend for Georgia Department of Natural Resources Game Wardens on area lakes. In the District 2 region, which includes Lakes Lanier and Hartwell, DNR spokesman Mark McKinnon said that as of 9a Sunday, there had been several incidents on Lake Lanier, one incident on Lake Hartwell and a drowning on Lake Rabun. McKinnon said […]