Category: News

The lights are back on and the phone lines are open at the Franklin County Sheriff’s office  after lightning struck the building during Wednesday night’s severe storms.  Most of the communications equipment at the Franklin County Sheriff’s office is back up and running but some equipment was totally destroyed by the lightning that struck Wednesday night. According to Sheriff Stevie […]

Hart County authorities continue their search for a teenager who went missing from his home late last month. 16-year old Harold Wayne Ackerman was last seen at his Bowen Road home in Hartwell on June 26th.  Ackerman has not had any contact with his family or friends in Hart County since then. At first it was thought he might have […]

Georgia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose to 8.6 percent in June. That’s up from 8.3 percent in May, but it was down from 9.1 percent in June a year ago. “The rate increased primarily because of two factors that occur this time of year,” said State Labor Commissioner Mark Butler. “A large number of education workers are unemployed during the […]

Pet owners in Franklin Springs and Royston will have and opportunity Saturday to have their animals vaccinated for rabies for just $5. A special rabies clinic will be held at two locations on Saturday, July 20.   First, at Royston Animal Hospital on U.S. 29 in Franklin Springs, and from 10a to noon at Deason’s Farm and Garden on Railroad St. […]

By Charlie Bauder, WNEG Radio, Toccoa The Toccoa-Stephens County Humane Shelter gets its man. Shelter Board Chair Harold Andrews said Wednesday that Jeff Roberts of Norfolk, Virginia has verbally accepted the shelter board’s offer to take its shelter director position. Andrews said he is overjoyed to have Roberts officially come on board. “He is enthusiastic and I firmly believe and […]