Category: News

The Georgia State Attorney General’s office is investigating the Hartwell Downtown Development Authority for possible violations of the Georgia Sunshine Law.  On Tuesday, former Hartwell DDA Executive Director Mitch Skelton confirmed he filed a complaint with the State last week. “Yes, I did and I immediately got a response from the Senior Assistant Attorney General who said, yes, it looked […]

Georgia’s State School Superintendent Dr. John Barge will be in Hartwell this afternoon.  Barge will be touring Hart County High School as part of his Georgia’s Future Now tour of schools.  He will then hold a roundtable discussion on education at 3: 15p at the high school this afternoon.  Barge was also in Toccoa over the weekend where he talked […]

A Georgia DOT employee from Lavonia, was honored this week for his service to his community.    Robby Oliver was awarded the Georgia Department of Transportation’s Customer Service Commendation in a special ceremony on Monday.  Oliver was honored for helping Avalon mayor Linda Dean obtain LMIG funding for road repairs.   “Robbie was our State Aid Coordinator,” said GDOT spokesperson […]

For many of us, the holiday season means time spent with family, holiday vacations, delicious food and gifts, but to burglars, it means an opportunity to steal the presents under your tree and other valuable.   In Hart County, authorities there have been dealing with a rash of burglaries since mid-October and so far there have been no arrests, despite […]

Hart County commissioners will hear about new changes to a law regulating coin-operated video machines when they meet for their first session of the month tonight.  In September, the board was told by county attorney Walter Gordon they need to consider revising their current ordinance because of changes in the state law, but no vote on the matter was ever […]