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Georgians will get two tax-free shopping weekends again this year. Gov. Nathan Deal has signed House Bill 958, legislation that will extend the statewide back-to-school tax-free holiday and  the ENERGY STAR and WaterSense appliance tax-free holiday weekends for an additional two years. The bill, signed during visits to the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Atlanta Food Bank, is a […]

Three people are dead after what investigators believe was the result of a domestic dispute. It happened Saturday night at Froh’s Restaurant on Rock Springs Road in Hart County. According to Hart County Sheriff Mike Cleveland he received a call late Saturday night regarding at shooting at the popular restaurant. “I got a call about  midnight. When I arrived, one […]

Parents of members of the Franklin County Lions Baseball team are expected to voice their opposition tonight of the firing of baseball coach Brent Honeywell. Honeywell was told recently he would not be returning next year as the high school baseball coach amid allegations of possible bullying during an off campus event in which team members drank a non-alcoholic mixture […]

Just a reminder for Hart County voters. There is no early voting today in the District 2 Board of Commission run-off. The run-off election for the District 2 seat is Tuesday.   Voters are deciding between two Republican candidates, retired Whitworth prison warden Frankie Teasley and retired businessman Garry Hamilton. Whoever wins the run-off will serve out the term of the […]

By Charlie Bauder, WNEG Radio, Toccoa, Toccoa Police and the Mountain Judicial Circuit N.C.I.S. Drug Team are announcing more charges filed in connection to Wednesday’s “Taking Back Toccoa” operation. Police Chief Tim Jarrell says that police and the N.C.I.S. Team have filed additional charges against one person and new charges against two other people. Jarrell says an additional charge of […]