Category: News

Those looking for work in Hart and surrounding counties may want to mark their calendars for the upcoming Career Expo in Hartwell. The job fair will be held April 29th from 10a to 1p at the Cateechee Golf Club on SR77 South in Hartwell. According to Toccoa Career Center manager Greg Pitts, the career expo is open to anyone who […]

If SR174 in Franklin County is one of your main routes to and from work, you need to prepared for some delays beginning next week. Work to resurface a four and a half mile stretch of SR174 is set to begin Monday weather permitting. Teri Pope with the Georgia Department of Transportation tells WLHR News the resurfacing will stretch from […]

Lawmakers from Georgia and South Carolina are pledging to hold additional meetings to discuss water issues along the Savannah River. State Rep. Alan Powell, of the 32nd District, which includes Hart and Franklin counties and South Carolina Rep. Don Bowen, R-Anderson, and said Tuesday they agree there are many issues of common interest to discuss. The two men spoke at […]

Still no word on what may have caused a Toccoa man to fatally shoot himself in front of law enforcement officers in Cherokee County over the weekend. Meantime, funeral services will be held Saturday in Carnesville  for 30-year old James Alan Woods of Toccoa. Woods shot himself last Sunday morning along I-575 in Cherokee County just northwest of Atlanta near […]

Customers served by the Eastonallee Post Office are invited to attend a public meeting today on a proposed reduction in retail hours . Last May, the U.S. Postal Service announced hours at thousands of small post offices across the country, including Eastanollee, would be reduced to better reflect usage. Under the proposal, the Eastanollee Post Office would see a reduction […]