Category: News

A Hart County toddler is dead, and other family members injured after their house caught fire. In happened early Sunday morning about 7a at a mobile home on Rocky Ford Road in the Shoal Creek Community of the county. Hart County Sheriff Mike Cleveland said the child, identified as Damien Westley Reddick, age two, was in a room built on […]

A partial bond hearing has been held for a Hartwell man  charged with a string of burglaries going back to mid-October in Hart and Elbert Counties.  Hart County investigators have charged Sedrick Armone Rucker, 31 of 71 Marshall Dove Road, with 16 home burglaries over a six-eight week period.   Hart County Sheriff Mike Cleveland said Rucker was picked up […]

With the sunny weather comes more road work in Franklin, Hart and surrounding counties by the Georgia DOT this week.  Crews will be out mowing tall vegetation and patching roads in Franklin, Hart, Banks, Stephens, Elbert and Madison counties.  Most activities will only require shoulder or median lane closures.  Franklin – A crew will reset the grade of the shoulders alongside […]

By Charlie Bauder, WNEG Radio, Toccoa The Stephens County Board of Education is starting the process of hiring a new School Superintendent. Thursday, the Board of Education voted 6 to 1 to hire King, Cooper, and Associates based out of Thomaston, Georgia to help the board with the search process to replace Sherrie Whiten, who is retiring at the end of […]

If you’re stuck for what to give that out-of-state friend for Christmas, you might want to consider something Georgia grown.  Last week, State Agriculture Commissioner  Gary Black and the Georgia Department of Agriculture  announced the release of the 2013 Georgia Grown Holiday Gift Guide.  The annual Georgia Grown Holiday Gift Guide is available online at www.georgiagrown.com and is comprised of various food […]