Category: News

By Charlie Bauder, WNEG Radio, Toccoa The Stephens County Board of Education is still working through what to do about the cannery and its financial situation. School board members discussed the cannery problem again at a recent work session. Stephens County School Superintendent Bryan Dorsey says further investigations showed both additional revenues and expenditures in the cannery, increasing the financial […]

U.S. Representative Doug Collins will serve on the House Committee on Rules and the House Committee on the Judiciary in the 114th Congress. This makes Collins’s second term on the House Judiciary Committee, where he will now serve as Vice Chairman of the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet. Collins be one of the newest members of the […]

An itinerant worker from the Atlanta area has been indicted by a Hart County Grand Jury in the deaths of three family members the day after Thanksgiving. Marco Ramirez Hernandez was released from the hospital last week and taken to the Hart County jail. Late Friday, Northern Judicial Circuit District Attorney Parks White announced the Grand Jury had indicted Hernandez […]

The City of Royston is looking at ways to come up with some extra revenue now that it has lost some major businesses, most notably the closing of Ty Cobb Memorial Hospital. At their regular city council meeting last week, the city council discussed the idea of allowing Sunday alcohol sales or liquor-by-the-drink sales. City Councilman Matt Fields proposed the […]

The Franklin County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors has named Tonya Powers as the new Director of Chamber Services. In a dual role, Powers will also serve as the Executive Secretary of the Franklin County Industrial Building Authority (IBA). Her official start date is December 15, 2014 For the past five years, Powers was employed as the sales and […]