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All jurors summoned to report for jury duty in Hart County at 1:30pm today, Monday, February 16th, do not have to report.

North Georgia is bracing for a winter weather event today, but Franklin and Hart Counties will not see the wintry mix predicted for other parts of the State. The Winter Weather Watch was downgraded Sunday afternoon to a Winter Weather Advisory and then cancelled altogether overnight for extreme Northeast Georgia. Meteorologist Neil Dixon with the National Weather Service in Greenville-Spartanburg […]

All campuses of North Georgia Tech are closed today, school officials say. “Due to the possibility of icy weather and roads tomorrow, all three campuses of North Georgia Technical College will be closed Monday, February 16th. This includes day and evening classes,” said NGTC spokesperson Sandra Maughon.

The Georgia Department of Transportation is monitoring the weather and conditions. Now that most of the snow and icy weather is expected further to our north, G-DOT spokesperson Teri Pope says crews will begin canvassing the mountain areas later today. “Our first shift came in at midnight and we’ve been checking road conditions since then,” she said. “We have our […]

Acting on a recommendation from the state’s Emergency Operations Command, Gov. Nathan Deal this evening signed an executive order to declare a state of emergency for disaster preparedness for the 15 North Georgia counties under a winter storm warning and will ask state workers in affected areas who are not involved in emergency response to work from home. “I am […]