Category: News

In Seneca, an autopsy is being performed on a 63 year-old Westminster woman who died Saturday night in the Oakway Community near Westminster after being hit by a car. It happened just after 9p Saturday night on the West Oak Highway near Pioneer Water Company. Authorities say the woman, identified as Sandra Faye Dickson, had walked across the road to […]

By Charlie Bauder, WNEG Radio, Toccoa U.S. District Court Judge Richard Story has reduced part of the jury award given to the widow of Lavonia pastor the Rev. Jonathan Ayers in her wrongful death lawsuit against former Mountain Judicial Circuit N.C.I.S. Drug Team Agent Billy Shane Harrison. Harrison shot the Rev. Ayers in a gas station parking lot in Toccoa […]

This year’s Franklin County Relay for Life event is coming up tonight at the Franklin County Middle School. Events get underway on the school’s football field this afternoon at 6p and will continue until 11p.  The evening will begin with the singing of the National Anthem and the Survivor’s and Team Walk.  That will be followed by a performance by […]

The City of Lavonia is applying for a grant to renovate the Lavonia cannery. In May of 2013, City manager Gary Fesperman approached the school system and asked that the City take over ownership of the cannery building. Calling it an historical asset to the town, Fesperman said the cannery had deteriorated over the years and with the tight budget […]

Job seekers will want to take advantage of a job fair going on today in Lavonia. Weaver Automotive Inc. is a processor and distributor of recycled, aftermarket, and rebuilt automotive body and mechanical components with partner locations all over the continental United States, including Carnesville and other locations in North Georgia and metro Atlanta. The company has serviced professional repair […]