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The Lavonia City Council is expected to hear tonight from Lavonia Fire Department Chief Scott O’Barr. At their work session last week, City Mayor Ralph Owens said O’Barr plans to ask the council about setting up a fire training center. O’Barr’s idea is to use property behind the Lavonia Cultural Center where an old quonset hut now stands. “We’re talking […]

A Hart County man will spend the next 20 years in state prison after pleading guilty last week to molesting a 14-year old girl. According to a report in the Athens-Banner Herald, 33-year old James Melvin Parsons of Hartwell was arrested in May 2014 and charged with child molestation, statutory rape, and enticing a child for indecent purposes. Northern Judicial […]

Franklin County Commission Chair Thomas Bridges says he is happy with the new Transportation Funding Act recently passed by the House and Senate. Bridges said late last week that after reviewing HB170, the final changes are something the county can live with. “We are much better off than we were when we started,” Bridges said. “They’re giving us the taxes […]

A Madison County woman avoided a lengthy prison sentence last week after she repaid money she admitted to stealing from a youth organization. 41-year old Sherry Hawkes of Colbert, paid back the $12,000 she stole from the Madison County Youth Association. According to their Web site, the group is a private, non-profit organization run by parents and volunteers that helps […]

Authorities in Anderson will be looking for the cause of the fire that destroyed the J Peters Bar & Grill Sunday. The popular eatery, which also has a location in Lavonia, went up in flames about 8a Sunday morning. It took several hours for firefighters to put out the blaze which, completely gutted the building on Interstate Blvd. Owner Jonathan […]