Category: News

When there’s an emergency at your house, you want first responders, firefighters, and law enforcement to be able to find your home quickly. That’s why Franklin County’s EMA/911 and Planning and Zoning departments are working on an updated plan to standardize how addresses are displayed. At their work session last week, EMA Director Ryan Parks and Planning and Zoning Director […]

By Ethan Jordan, WNEG An autopsy is scheduled for the body of a toddler who was found dead in a Toccoa home. Toccoa police responded to a call the evening of Monday, January 30 of an unresponsive child at home in the area of Riley St., according to GBI Agent in Charge Kimberly Williams with the GBI Regent 8 office […]

This week is Severe Weather Preparedness Week and The Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency, in partnership with the National Weather Service, is encouraging Georgians to learn and understand the threats of severe weather and prepare for various weather events. GEMA and Homeland Security Director Chris Stallings says with the recent severe storms, tornado outbreaks, and straight-line winds that […]

Registration is underway for a one-day seminar on ways to prevent and respond to school safety issues. It’s called the AWR 148: Crisis Management for School-Based Incidents and it’s scheduled for Monday, March 6 at the Carnesville Fire Department. The one-day class teaches rural law enforcement, first responders, and local school systems how to partner together to solve a school […]

Franklin County Commissioners have approved a preliminary updated Master Plan for the County water system. At their work session earlier this week, the Board heard from Peoples & Quigley vice president Christopher D. Quigley on their recommendations for what needs to be done to the system over the next 20 years. Under Phase 1, Quigley listed a number of issues […]