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The Georgia Department of Labor’s (GDOL) Gainesville Career Center has cancelled a scheduled job fair this weekend in Buford to help Lake Lanier Islands Resort fill about 100 seasonal jobs. Icy weather this week and the threat of snow Friday night into Saturday morning prompted officials to reschedule the job fair for Saturday, Feb. 28. The company is recruiting personnel […]

By Rep. Alan Powell As the next step in Georgia’s highly successful criminal justice reforms of the past several years, legislation proposed by Gov. Nathan Deal is now being considered to combine the supervision functions of three state agencies into a new Department of Community Supervisions. Under HB 310, the new combined agency would assume the current supervisory functions of […]

These updates are being made possible by Skelton-Morris Associates, with offices in Hartwell, Toccoa, and now Lavonia.  Insurance since 1912. Stephens County Schools – Closed for students and staff Thursday, February 19, 2015 & Friday, February 20, 2015 Habersham County Schools – Closed.  12 month staff in Habersham County should report at 10 a.m. Thursday.   SOUTH CAROLINA Oconee County […]

After being off the air for over 36 hours, WLHR-FM has resumed full-power operations.  Thank you for your patience in this matter.    WLHR will continue to stream full-time until 9:30am on Thursday, February 19, 2015.  This will allow time for anybody listening on line to switch back over to their radios.

It has been almost 48 hours since ice and freezing rain moved through our area and just over 1,000 Hart EMC customers were still without electricity Wednesday morning. Hart EMC spokesman Keith Brown said over 5,500 customers had lost power initially. Brown said Tuesday afternoon work to restore power to customers was hampered by a slow thaw Tuesday, which caused […]