Author: Porkchop Branch

The City of Royston will bid out a proposed gas line expansion. At their regular meeting earlier this month, the city council and mayor discussed the best way to finance the project. Royston Gas is planning to expand its service to include poultry farms along Bold Springs Road in the county. Under consideration were two options. The first, was to […]

    The city of Toccoa has its Fiscal Year 2015 operating budget in place. City commissioners unanimously approved the budget Tuesday.   Toccoa Mayor Gail Fry said she is pleased with how the budget came together. “I feel comfortable about the budget,” said Fry. “We met with all of the department heads and we met with our city manager. […]

  If you’re headed down to Lake Lanier Islands this summer, be aware of some major construction going on around SR284 for most of the summer months. According to G-DOT spokesperson Teri Pope, SR 284 will be closed to traffic for construction of a pedestrian tunnel under SR 284 as part of a broader project. The project will build a […]

Two local schools have been chosen by Georgia Agriculture Secretary Gary Black to participate in the Georgia Grown Test Kitchen program.   Hartwell Elementary School in Hart County and East Jackson Elementary in Jackson County are two of ten schools selected.   The new program will promote local and healthy eating in schools across the state through supplying school nutrition […]