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The Hart County Charter System has announced its 2023 PAGE STAR Student. He is Hart County High School senior Tate Phillips. Tate selected Mrs. Melissa Morgan-Phillips, a Calculus teacher at Hart County High School, to be the STAR Teacher. Tate, the son of Chapin and Brie Phillips, earned the STAR Student recognition for academic achievement and performance on the SAT. […]

Funeral services were held Wednesday in Toccoa, for one of the victims in the car crash Sunday in Athens that killed a UGA football player and UGA recruiter and injured two others. Services for 24-year-old Chandler LeCroy were held Wednesday afternoon at First Baptist Church in Toccoa. According to the police incident report obtained by the Associated Press, LeCroy and […]

State Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John F. King said his office continues to look into the cause of a house fire that killed an elderly woman in Stephens County. It happened January 6 when at about 11:55a a passing motorist reported a woods fire on Oak Valley Road in Toccoa. Another caller also reported a residential structure fire at […]

The City of Hartwell and Hart County have come to an agreement regarding a proposed massive new development at the edge of town. The final agreement between the two governments comes with concessions on the part of Hartwell City fathers. Last fall, Hartwell filed an annexation request with the County of 270 acres between Fairview Avenue and Liberty Hill Road […]

Franklin County Commission Chair Jeff Jacques says the County is doing its due diligence over a plan initiated by the City of Carnesville to buy its water and sewer system. The County has been in talks with the City of Carnesville about purchasing its water and sewer system after being approached by Mayor Harris Little. WLHR News has learned the […]