Author: Porkchop Branch

    You may have already been stopped by local law enforcement over the weekend and asked to show your driver’s license and insurance card. Operation Zero Tolerance and Click or Ticket began on Friday and will run through the July 4th holiday. In Lavonia, police are already out in force looking for impaired drivers as early revelers try to […]

  Franklin County has passed their fiscal 2014 budget. The FY14 General Fund budget proposes $11.8 million in expenses and $11.7 million in anticipated revenue. At last week’s work session, Franklin County’s Board of Commissioners heard the second and final reading of the budget from county manager Billy Morse. “It is a balanced budget and no rate increases are proposed. […]

  Student loan rates are doubling this week and will stay higher at least for a while. The Associated Press reports the move comes after a compromise to keep student loan interest rates low proved unwinnable in the U.S. Senate before the July 1 deadline. Sen. Tom Harkin, the chairman of the Senate education panel, said none of the proposals […]

Students in Georgia’s elementary and middle schools improved performance on the majority of the Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT) taken this year.  The 2013 Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT) results released late last week show a one-year improvement in the percentage of students meeting and exceeding on 18 of the 30 content-area tests, no change on seven tests and decreases on five […]

The two remaining Northeast Georgia men charged in an alleged plot to attack the U.S. government are now set to go to trial later this month. According to a document filed in U.S. District Court in Gainesville, Samuel J. Crump and Ray H. Adams, both of Toccoa, are set to go to trial on Monday, July 15 at 9:30 a.m. […]