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The deadline is looming for high school students from Hart County to apply for the American Legion 2015 Scholarship. Scholarships are in the amount of $1,000 each and Hart County Post 109 spokesman Bob Savage says they hope to award up to four scholarships this year to local seniors. “We’re going to give three that we know of, but there […]

A Carnesville student at North Georgia Tech will be competing later this month in a state SKILLS USA competition. Colt Voyles of Carnesville will compete in the Welding contest in Cordele, Georgia, on Friday, April 17. Other competitions took place at the recent Georgia State SkillsUSA competition in March. SkillsUSA is a national career and technical student organization with chapters […]

Three people are confirmed dead after a wreck this morning on I-85 in Jackson County. It happened on I-85SB about 7:30a near Exit 147 in Commerce. At of 11a, troopers were still working the scene, but according to the Georgia State Patrol Gainesville Post, three passengers died after the van they were riding in left the road. In all, 12 […]

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 […]