Category: News

If you live in Elbert County and need help enrolling for health insurance through the Insurance Marketplace, that help is available today. Open enrollment will end on February 15th. A representative will be at Elbert Memorial Hospital today for anyone who has questions. Whitney Griggs is a Certified Health Insurance Navigator with the Health Mothers and Babies Coalition.  She will […]

It is still snowing in the Gaps of Lumpkin, Towns, Union and White Counties this morning and crews with the Georgia Department of Transportation continue to battle icy road conditions.  GDOT officials are asking people to avoid driving until snow ends and the threat of black ice is over today in the higher elevations of the Mountain Counties. “Crews are […]

A Hartwell man and World War II veteran is being honored today by the French Government for his service in helping liberate France from the Nazis. Arthur B. Mohor, Jr., 91, is among twelve veterans and three Northeast Georgians who will be in Atlanta today to receive the National Order of the Legion of Honor medal. The medal is being […]

U.S. Representative Doug Collins (R-9th) says his new forest land bill is a win for the public , the U.S. Forest Service, and local counties. Collins took time out of his busy schedule Monday night to do a town hall meeting with constituents by conference call. Collins took calls from voters from across the 9th Congressional District, answering questions and […]

Aggressive and threatening phone calls by criminals impersonating IRS agents remain near the top of the annual “Dirty Dozen” list of tax scams for the 2015 filing season, the Internal Revenue Service announced today. The IRS has seen a surge of these phone scams in recent months as scam artists threaten police arrest, deportation, license revocation and other things. The […]