Category: News

The U.S. Army 4th Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne, the “Currahees” that trace their  beginnings to Camp Toccoa and the Band of Brothers in World War II, is being decommissioned earlier than first planned. According to an Associated Press report, 140 soldiers from the “Currahees” returned to Fort Campbell, Kentucky from their final deployment to Afghanistan last week.  […]

Sign-ups are going on now at the Hart County Recreation Department for Youth Basketball. Registration is going on now through November 8th.  Youth Basketball is for children ages 7 through 12 and they must be within that age group as of January 1st. The youth basketball program at the Hart County Recreation Center had not been offered for several years, […]

 In honor of Veterans Day, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Savannah District will waive day use fees for all veterans, active and reserve component service members, and their families at Corps-managed recreation areas throughout the Veterans Day holiday weekend, Nov. 9 through Nov. 11. The fee waiver requires only verbal confirmation of service and is applicable at any USACE-operated day use […]

Franklin County authorities have uncovered a marijuana growing operation. “Late Friday, deputies responded to a report of a domestic dispute in a vehicle traveling down the highway,” Thomas said Sunday night. “Dispatchers also gave deputies the tag number of the vehicle which came back to a home at 116 Russo Road in Franklin County.” Thomas said deputies went to the […]

A career criminal who pled guilty to a string of burglaries in Franklin and Hart counties as well as a home invasion that injured an elderly Royston man, will spend the next two decades in a Georgia prison. On Friday, Judge John Bailey sentenced 21-year old Keibron Brock in Franklin County Superior Court in Carnesville. According to Northern Judicial Circuit […]