Category: News

In Oconee County, SC an autopsy is planned today on the body of a man found dead over the weekend at a Lake Kowee boat ramp. It happened about 2p Saturday afternoon at a boat ramp on Marina Drive in the Lake Keowee Key development. According to Oconee County coroner Karl Addis, the 75-year old man, identified as Robert Bruce […]

Franklin County’s Board of Commissioners is saying no to approving a resolution that would support the Broad River Watershed Association and its plan to put in a water trail. The Broad River Water Trail (BRWT) currently runs from the Hudson River and Middle Fork Broad River in the Northern End of the Watershed to  Bobby Brown State Park, north of […]

A Franklin County Grand Jury has indicted a Toccoa couple for burglarizing and vandalizing two churches. Joshua Franklin Spearman and MeganLynn Spearman were indicted  on two counts each of burglary in the second degree and two counts each of vandalism to a place of worship. The burglaries happened in May.  Franklin County Sheriff Stevie Thomas said the first happened May […]

Investigators from local and state law enforcement agencies are in Royston at the Royston Police Department this week attending training by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. GBI Agent in Charge for the Athens office Mike Ayers has been conducting classes this week on the fundamentals of conducting interrogations and interviews with suspects and witnesses. Topics covered over the three-day seminar […]

Just a reminder for those looking for work, the Georgia Department of Labor is sponsoring a job fair this afternoon on the Currahee Campus of North Georgia Tech in Stephens County. About 60 employers will be on hand on the 27th at the Job Fair, according to Toccoa Career Center Manager Greg Pitts. Pitts said even with the current high […]