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Three Lavonia Police officers receive special recognition on Capitol Hill. Rep. Doug Collins (GA-09) took to the House floor on Thursday morning to thank three officers of the Lavonia Police Department . Lavonia Police Officers Harold McCroskey, Brandon Brown, and Black Andrews. All three were named as Officers of the Year by Lavonia Police Chief Bruce Carlisle in 2014. Collins, […]

The Franklin County School Board is looking ahead to their next eSPLOST. At their meeting this month, the board went over the list of projects already completed using the current eSPLOST and those projects yet to be done. The biggest project, building the new core building at Franklin County High School is completed. But School Superintendent Dr. Ruth O’Dell said […]

More good news for Georgia’s economy. Georgia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for December was 6.9 percent. That’s down from 7.2 percent in November. The rate declined as holiday hiring boosted Georgia’s job total to just over 4.1 million. That’s the highest level since the beginning of the recession in December 2007. Additionally, state employers added hundreds of new jobs in […]

The blood letting continues in the Stephens County School System. On Thursday, the Stephens County School Board voted 6 to 1 to approve a human resources report that included 28 terminations and one resignation. School board member Rodney Moore, Jr. was the lone vote against the cuts. All of the terminations take effect on February 4 and all of the […]

The City of Franklin Springs has re-appointed all of its staff and employees for 2015. At their meeting Tuesday, the city council voted to re-appoint Bubba Samuels as the Municipal Court Judge, the law firm of Sanders, Smith & Ranck as the city attorneys, and Hulsey McCormick & Wallace as the town’s engineers. They also re-appointed Jackie Yearwood as the […]