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The first American flag ever to fly on the site of the historic Spring St. Elementary School is now unfurled. At a special ceremony Thursday morning, members of the Springview Heights Community in Lavonia gathered to raise the flag on the new community flag pole. The flagpole was recently installed by the City and is near a new granite memorial […]

St. Mary’s Health Care System, officially welcomes its first class of Internal Medicine residents and one of them is a native of Lavonia. The 10 residents, who began orientation on June 24, officially began work Tuesday at St. Mary’s in Athens. St. Mary’s spokesman Mark Ralston says the Internal Medicine Residency Program is the first of its kind in Northeast […]

In Athens, a juror has been removed from the Jamie Hood trial because of admitted bias against the defendant. Due to pretrial publicity in the high profile murder case, all of the jurors and their alternates were selected from Elbert County. Wednesday was day six of the trial of the man who has admitted to shooting and killed an Athens-Clarke […]

The Toccoa-Stephens County Airport Authority is continuing to look at a formal set of policies and procedures. Authority members met Monday at the airport for a called meeting and proposed policies and procedures were on the agenda for discussion. Toccoa-Stephens County Airport Authority Chair Dennis Bell said that the policies and procedures they are looking at would cover all aspects […]

As we’ve been telling you, this weekend is typically one of the busiest on Georgia roadways of the year. And as they always do over a holiday weekend, the Georgia Department of Transportation will be suspending all construction-related closures, according to G-DOT Spokesperson Teri Pope. “The July 4th Weekend is on the biggest holiday travel weekends for vehicular traffic of […]