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The Lavonia-Carnegie Library’s ‘Carnegie Color Crawl’ takes place on this Saturday, April 1, at 10:00 AM. Maggie R. West, Branch Manager of the Franklin Co. Libraries says this is a fun run or walk to raise money for charity and for this year’s Summer Reading Program. April is CDH Awareness Month and West said that is the charity they chose […]

Emmanuel College has recently announced a number of new initiatives aimed at helping high school grads wanting to enroll there to pay for their tuition. Now the College has another new program but this time for adults who want to return to the classroom in the fall. According to spokesperson Ashley Westbrook, it’s called the Community Grant program and it’s […]

Georgia Dept of Transportation crews are working nights this week in Northbound and Southbound left lanes between Exits 160 and 164. The left lanes will be closed so crews can install a temporary barrier wall between the two exits. The lane closures began last night and will run through Wednesday, March 29, beginning at 9 p.m. until 6 a.m. weather […]

Georgia’s February unemployment rate was 3.1 percent, unchanged from a revised 3.1 percent in January. The unemployment rate has held at 3.1 percent for seven consecutive months and was five-tenths lower than the national unemployment rate of 3.6 percent. Initial claims for unemployment were down 45% from January in February. In January, Georgia had the highest labor force participation rate […]

A crash involving an 18-wheeler and a tractor late last week sends a Dewy Rose woman to the hospital.  According to a report from the Georgia State Patrol Hartwell Post 52, the accident occurred on Thursday afternoon around 4:20 at 2803 Georgia Highway 77 just inside Elbert County.  According to the report, a John Deere 4520 farm tractor was traveling […]