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JUST IN: Franklin County Board of Commissioners has canceled tonight’s called meeting. The Franklin County Board of Commissioners will meet tonight at 6p for a called session and are expected to vote on whether to accept a settlement offer from an Atlanta developer. Corridor Development is suing Franklin County over the Board’s decision to deny them rezoning and conditional use […]

The Lavonia VFW is teaming up with Toys for Tots for Saturday’s Christmas in July Motorcycle ride and fundraiser. Local Toys for Tots coordinator Mike Prather said the 2021 Toys for Tots drive broke all records. Prather said some 3,000 children from 976 families in the Franklin, Hart, and Elbert county area received toys last year for Christmas, more than […]

Georgia’s June unemployment rate hit an all-time low of 2.9 percent while Georgia’s number of jobs continued to climb to an all-time high of 4,801,800. Jobs are up 18,100 from May to June and up 246,300 over the year. Georgia’s unemployment rate was seven-tenths of a percent lower than the national June 2022 unemployment rate of 3.6 percent. “We have […]

More charging stations for electric vehicles are coming to Georgia. The Georgia Department of Transportation announced Thursday it has received federal designation for two highways as Alternative Fuel Corridors from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). The first route is US 441 from Cornelia in northeast Georgia to Dublin in east central Georgia. A second route is US 82 from Brunswick […]

There is a new cellphone policy in place for returning Franklin County High students this fall. At the Franklin County Board of Education meeting last week, high school principal Roger Wilkinson said cellphone use for students will be more restrictive beginning in the new school year. Wilkinson said previously teachers had some flexibility with how they dealt with cellphones in […]