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This week families, churches and groups in Lavonia will pack gifts during Operation Christmas Child’s National Collection Week. Collection points are now open to receive colorfully wrapped shoebox gifts packed by local residents. In 2015, the project hopes to collect enough shoebox gifts to reach more than 11 million children, with many coming from the Franklin, Hart, Stephens and Oconee […]

Madison County’s food bank is running low. Madison County commission chairman Anthony Dove told Mainstreet News this week supplies are short. He’s urging all citizens to donate what they can to help their fellow citizens in need. Dove said the Madison County Board of Commissioners is making an emergency $5,000 contribution to the food bank to help with supplies in […]

The Town of Bowersville has a new city government, officially. AT their first city council meeting Monday night, Hart County Chief Magistrate Judge Thomas J. Jordan, swore in the new mayor and four council members. On November 3rd, the newly elected officials were voted into office by just over 100 registered voters in the town of about 450. It was […]

In Oconee County, SC, the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help regarding their investigation into an early Monday morning burglary at a convenience store. The burglary was discovered about 5a Monday morning at a convenience store on South Highway 11 near Rock Hill and Isbell Roads. An employee discovered the hole in a wall of the building […]

Georgia’s Farm City Week is coming up November 21-27 and last week, local and state officials from across Northeast Georgia attended the annual Farm City Week banquet at the Toccoa Falls College Dining Hall. Gwinnett County State Senator And Senate President Pro Tempore David Shafer was the keynote speaker. Shafer stressed agriculture is the foundation of any society. “So many […]