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As football fans all over the country look to Arizona to watch Super Bowl XLIX, law enforcement in Georgia will be looking out for impaired drivers who continue their celebrating behind the wheel. The Super Bowl is America’s most popular sporting event, but that also means it is one of the country’s most popular drinking events. The Governor’s Office of […]

By Charlie Bauder, WNEG Radio, Toccoa Animal control and castration again took center stage at Tuesday’s Stephens County Commission meeting as people on both sides of the issue spoke to the board. The issue of who can legally spay or neuter a pet dog or cat has been the talk of the county since a Stephens County high Ag teacher […]

Franklin County’s School System will likely be benefiting again from some restoration funding Governor Nathan Deal is including in next year’s state budget. Deal presented his FY16 Budget to the Georgia General Assembly this week and in it he is promising to continue to put back monies to school systems lost over the past few years to austerity cuts. Deal’s […]

A Hart County commissioner is calling for the board and county staff to put on their thinking caps and come up with a better way to put out requests for bids. At Tuesday’s regular meeting, commissioner Ricky Carter said he is committed to improving the county’s economy and one way he said that could be done is by giving local […]

The unemployment rate in the Georgia Mountains region in December was 5.5 percent, unchanged from November. The rate in December 2013 was 5.9 percent. While the rate was unchanged in December, there were 3,275 new claims for unemployment insurance filed, an increase of 1,730, or 112 percent, from 1,545 in November. “Most of the increase in claims was because of […]