Category: News

This year’s Franklin County High School Honor’s Breakfast is scheduled for Friday, March 3, and will be in a new location. Traditionally, the Honors Breakfast is held at the Swails Center at Emmanuel College but due to a scheduling conflict, the breakfast has been moved this year to the Currahee Campus of North Georgia Technical College. The annual Honors Breakfast […]

Scammers are now targeting Facebook members telling them they have violated the social media’s community standards. According to the Better Business Bureau, it’s the latest phishing scheme designed to scare Facebook users into sharing their login credentials. Here’s how you can spot the scam and protect your account from hackers. First, you receive an email that appears to come from […]

The Georgia Department of Labor has announced a new cloud-based virtual agent to improve response and customer wait times. State Labor Commissioner Bruce Thompson said it’s part of the department’s ongoing efforts to modernize and improve efficiency. “Our goal is to become the most responsive agency in state government, which requires us to adapt to the demands and desires of […]

Sign up for help doing your taxes from the AARP Tax-Aide program is now available in Hartwell. “Tax-Aide provides FREE tax preparation service, including electronic filing of returns during the tax season for anyone who needs it,” said Dixie Dennis, a volunteer tax preparer for the Tax-Aide program. ” There are no upper or lower income or age limits for […]

If you are heading up from Banks County today on I-85 you might want to consider using SR59 northbound instead. The Georgia Department of Transportation will be performing some emergency road maintenance on I-85 northbound today. Crews will be replacing a concrete slab and doing spall repair on the roadway and will have the right lane closed between mile markers […]