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The Lavonia City Council will hear more tonight about their lower fiscal tax digest when they meet for their regular monthly meeting. This year’s tax digest for fiscal 2013 is lower than in years past. Last week, city manager Gary Fesperman said the lower digest has to do with a lack of real growth in the town in recent years. […]

  State Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens says a storm that hit Georgia June 13 caused an estimated $50 million in insured losses. Hudgens said Monday that the figure could rise once all the claims associated with the storm are settled. The storm left more than 160,000 Georgia Power customers without service and caused two EF1 tornadoes in Cherokee and Cobb […]

Attorneys for both sides in the Wilbros’ civil suit are waiting to hear back from the judge after each completing their own proposed new joint order to replace a court order already in place. The Toccoa biofuel plant has been at the center of a civil law suit brought by the county, the Stephens County School Board, the City of […]

A year ago, hundreds gathered in the sweltering sun on the campus of the new Ty Cobb Regional Medical Center to officially open the state-of-the-art hospital. On Sunday, a special open house was held in celebration of the hospital’s one year anniversary. It’s been a year of working out the kinks and bugs, according to Ty Cobb Healthcare CEO Greg […]

In Elbert County, the investigation continues into a reported accidental drowning that occurred on June 18th on Lake Russell According to Elbert County Sheriff Melvin Andrews, autopsy results received back from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Crime Lab in Augusta, GA indicate that 29-year-old Meredith Watkins of Bowman, drowned. At approximately 1:50am on the 18th, Watkins body was located in […]