Category: News

In Stephens County, a Toccoa man charged in connection to multiple burglaries, along with a vehicle break-in at a local church earlier this year will serve time in prison after pleading guilty. 24-year-old Joshua Franklin Spearman of Toccoa pleaded guilty in Stephens County Superior Court last week to two counts of burglary in the first degree, four counts of entering […]

Franklin County High School students are mourning the loss of one of their own this morning after a wreck over the weekend took one of their classmates. It happened about noon Saturday on SR63. The Georgia State Patrol said  16-year old Matt Walters was driving down SR63 near his home when his vehicle suddenly left the road, went down an […]

Students at Hartwell Elementary will/are back in class today after a two days off last week because of a bat infestation. The school was closed Thursday and Friday so crews from a wildlife removal company could get rid of the bats and another company could clean. Hart County School Superintendent  Jerry Bell had been out at the school every day […]

It’s Veterans Day and Hart County High School will host the annual Hart County Veterans’ Day Program in the auditorium of the Lonnie Burns Fine Arts Center this morning at 10a.  This year’s speaker is Colonel G.T. Myers, United States Army, Retired. Colonel Myers is the junior ROTC senior instructor at the high school. He retired from active duty in 2004 after […]

Local law enforcement is asking for the public’s help to locate two suspects involved in a paving scam that targets the elderly. According to the Banks County Sheriff spokesperson Deputy Carissa McFaddin, two men in a pick-up approached an elderly homeowner on October 30th offering to pave part of their driveway with some unused asphalt. At first they discussed a […]