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The City of Royston will cap off a month of municipal Holiday fun with tonight’s Christmas in Royston event. According to Downtown Development Authority Executive Director Candy Rhoades, the fun begins this afternoon at 5p, with a host of various fun activities for the entire family. “Shops will be open late,  there will be vendors offering lots of goodies for […]

Georgia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in November was 5.6 percent, down one-tenth of a percentage point from 5.7 percent in October. The rate was 6.7 percent in November 2014. “Our employers created 3,700 jobs in November, which helped push the unemployment rate down to its lowest point since March 2008,” said State Labor Commissioner Mark Butler. The number of jobs […]

If you plan to enjoy the holidays with a drink, the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety and TEAM Georgia have a message for you…drive sober or get pulled over. The two organizations are once again coming together for their Safe Holiday campaign to help prevent impaired driving during Christmas and New Year’s. The Safe Holiday campaign, which urges businesses and […]

Registered voters can sign up for a year of free credit monitoring provided by the Georgia secretary of state after his office released personal information in October. The Associated Press reports the services from CSID became available Wednesday, 12 days after Brian Kemp announced that his office would cover the $1.2 million cost with reserve funds. A lawsuit filed in […]

By Charlie Bauder, WNEG Radio, Toccoa An investigation continues into a shooting incident last week that resulted in one injury in Toccoa. It happened last Friday at about 12:45 p.m. Toccoa Police Chief Tim Jarrell said officers responded to a residence on South Alexander Street, where they found someone with an injury outside along the street. “When officers arrived, they […]