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By Charlie Bauder, WNEG Radio, Toccoa The Georgia Environmental Protection Division appears to be giving a Toccoa biofuel company more time to comply with one facet of a consent order. EPD Assistant Director Jim Ussery says the agency granted Wilbros LLC an extension from the March 16th deadline for installation of a cover for a wastewater treatment pond. “It has […]

The Franklin County Sheriff’s office continues to work on plans for developing a work release center at the Franklin County Detention Center in Carnesville. At their work session last week, the Board of Commissioners heard a presentation by Franklin County Sheriff Stevie Thomas and Tom Wright of Wright, Mitchell & Associates Architects. For the past several years, Thomas and Wright […]

In Oconee County, South Carolina, nearly 250 people squeezed into the South Union Baptist Church for the first public meeting on the Sanctuary Pointe project just inside the state line off I-85. Developer Elmon Henry, identified as one of the five principals in the project, explained his group’s master plan during a 90-minute meeting this week, the last part of […]

Georgia Mountains region’s unemployment rate dropped to 7.5 percent in February. That’s down from 8% in January and 8.4% a year ago. The State Labor Department said the rate declined because there were fewer new layoffs, which were represented by initial claims for unemployment insurance benefits. In Franklin County, the rate dropped almost a full percentage point to 10.3% from […]

Tickets are now on sale for two upcoming performances at the Lavonia Cultural Center. The first is a play put on the Franklin Community Players entitled, “Disney’s Tarzan: The Musical,” which will run April 25th through the 28th. “Tarzan: the Musical” tells the story of an infant boy orphaned on the shores of West Africa. Taken in and raised by […]