Category: News

By David Williams, WSGC Radio, Elberton The Elbert County Board of Commissioners is proposing raising the millage in order to meet a request by Elbert Memorial Hospital for more funding. In June, the Hospital Authority Board and executives from AnMed Healthcare asked the county for an extra $660,000 to cover the cost of indigent healthcare. At Monday’s regular meeting, Elbert […]

Some Franklin County school students may be thinking Friday the 13th fell on a Wednesday, but for others, today is the start of a new and exciting school year. Either way, the first day of the new academic year gets underway today for Franklin County school students. The school system is beginning the year with a bigger budget, extra class […]

Hart County High School has been named as an Alert School for 2014. According to a press release issued Tuesday by the the Georgia Department of Education, the release of the list of 2014 Alert Schools is part of the state’s waiver from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. School superintendent Jerry Bell said the news Tuesday came as a […]

A Lavonia veterinarian is celebrating his 40th year in practice. Dr. Pat Hitchcock, owner of the Lavonia Animal Hospital on Main St. was honored by friends and employees Tuesday. Hitchcock set his practice up in 1974 in Lavonia and over the past 40 years he says it’s the people in the community who readily accepted his practice that has meant […]

By Charlie Bauder, WNEG Radio, Toccoa Former Stephens County School Superintendent Sherrie Whiten speaks on the school system’s Fiscal Year 2013 audit. State auditors released the final audit report on Friday. In that report, auditors said the Stephens County school system failed to balance its budget in Fiscal Year 2013, resulting in a deficit fund balance. According to auditors, the […]