Category: News

By Charlie Bauder The Toccoa-Stephens County Humane Shelter Board has offered a candidate the position of shelter director. At a meeting Tuesday, board members in attendance voted unanimously to offer the position to Jeff Roberts of Norfolk, Virginia. Roberts was most recently the Chief Executive Officer of the Norfolk SPCA.  Shelter Board Member Stanley London said Roberts is very qualified […]

Still no sign of a teenager missing from his home in Hart County for over two weeks. Harold Wayne Ackerman, 16 was last seen at his Bowen Road home in Hartwell on June 26th. On Wednesday, Hart County Sheriff Mike Cleveland said Ackerman has not been in contact with family or friends since. “We thought at first he might be […]

For the first time in its 160 year history, Hart County has an animal control ordinance. At their regular meeting Tuesday evening, the Hart County Board of Commissioners heard the third and final reading of the ordinance and held a public hearing before taking a vote. “I have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion or any comment […]

Traffic on U.S. 29 in Hart County and in Anderson County is back to normal today, but it was a different story Wednesday afternoon as thousands packed the area around the Hartwell Dam to watch the test opening of the Hartwell Dam spillways. People came from all over North Georgia and the Upstate to witness the  test, which has not […]

The high water levels on the reservoir lakes has prompted the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to close some recreation areas at Lakes Hartwell and Russell.  Some of the hazardous conditions caused by the high water levels include floating debris, submerged retaining walls and higher river velocity downstream of Thurmond Dam.  The move was announced Wednesday afternoon. At Hartwell Lake: […]