Category: News

More economic development in the planning stages for the City of Lavonia around Exit 173 on SR17. At their work session last week, the Lavonia City Council heard from city manager Gary Fesperman who gave them an overview of some of the projects in the works. One of those projects includes the renovation of the Hardee’s on SR17. Fesperman said […]

By Charlie Bauder, WNEG Radio, Toccoa A federal judge has set another new trial date for the two Toccoa men charged in an alleged plot to attack the U.S. government. In documents filed July 15,  Samuel J. Crump and Ray H. Adams, both of Toccoa, are now set to go to trial on September 23 in U.S. District Court in […]

Northern Judicial Circuit District Attorney Parks White says he plans to seek the death penalty in the January murder of a Canon woman. White confirmed Thursday that he has filed notice that he will seek the death penalty  for Brent James Shubert of Canon. In March, a Franklin County Grand Jury indicted Shubert on one count of malice murder, one […]

A Michigan company has announced it is moving its operations to Hart County. Field Service Engineering (FSE) is moving its corporate headquarters from Oakland County, Mich., to Hart County, Ga., in the Gateway Industrial Park on SR59 near I-85. With Hart County’s unemployment numbers still in the double digits, local leaders say the move by Field Service Engineering to Hart […]

The unemployment rate in the Georgia Mountains region increased to 8.0 percent in June from 7.3 percent in May. The rate increased primarily because of two seasonal factors: large numbers of education workers are unemployed during the summer and new graduates are considered unemployed until they find a job. In Franklin County, the unemployment rate for June stood at 10.8% […]