Category: News

The unemployment rate in the Georgia Mountains region dropped  to 7.0 percent in August. That’s down from 7.8 percent in July. According to the Georgia Department of Labor the lower unemployment rate is due to a significant reduction in layoffs. In Franklin County, the unemployment rate dropped significantly in August to 9.7% from 11% in July.  Franklin County’s total labor […]

The National Weather Service in Greenville-Spartanburg is predicting a picture-perfect fall weekend and that bodes well for this weekend’s annual Lavonia Fall Festival. Sponsored by the Lavonia Chamber of Commerce, festival organizer Al Goldsmith says this year over 60 vendors will be on hand to offer an array of food, arts and crafts.  “We’ve got 60 vendors taking up over […]

Franklin County’s Board of Commissioners has appointed County engineer John Phillips as the interim county manager. “We went ahead and appointed John Phillips to take over as the interim county manager,” Franklin County Commission chair Thomas Bridges said Wednesday. “Billy did the county well and he will be greatly missed, but we wish him all the best in his new […]

Franklin County Coroner David Pressley will get his new body cooler, but the money will come from his own budget. Franklin County Commissioners plan to vote to approve the purchase at their regular meeting on October 7th. At their work session Tuesday evening, the board of commissioners agreed the county is in need of a cooler, but said the $6,080 […]

The Franklin County Grand Jury has indicted two Lavonia men for burglaries at a Lavonia mobile home park. According to the indictment, Kelotrea Wonyah Blackwell and Micah Dazwanya Moncrief were indicted on two counts each of felony burglary in the first degree.  It happened August 17th at 29 Teasley Lane in the Beaver Creek Mobile Home park in Lavonia. “Some […]