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Hart County Commissioners will meet Tuesday evening for a called session to work out details of a six-month moratorium on new housing subdivisions. At their meeting last week, Commissioner Joey Dorsey proposed the moratorium to give Commissioners time to come up with a plan to address what he believes is uncontrolled housing growth in Hart County. “There’s been a tremendous […]

A reminder that the AARP Foundation Tax-Aide program is open today in Hartwell for taxpayers who are over 50 and have low to moderate incomes. The free tax help program provides in-person and virtual tax assistance to anyone, free of charge. AARP volunteers who are certified by the IRS will help fill out federal and state returns. However, there are […]

Gov. Brian Kemp’s plan to give back $1.6 billion in state income tax refunds is advancing through the State Legislature. Last Thursday, the House Ways and Means Committee voted unanimously to pass House Bill 1302 sending it to the full House for more debate. Under the measure, single filers would get back $250 in tax rebates, $375 would go to […]

Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black has suspended until further notice all exhibitions, shows, sales (flea markets, auction markets), swaps, and meets pertaining to poultry and feathered fowl in the State of Georgia due to the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza detected in the U.S. in January. Black says the highly contagious virus has been identified in commercial poultry operations and a […]

Franklin County Commissioners plan to vote at their March meeting to allocate additional SPLOST V funds to each of the county’s fire departments. At their work session Tuesday, Commission Chair Jason Macomson said in 2015 when SPLOST V began, a general amount of $200k was set aside for public safety but not a specific SPLOST allocation for each fire department. […]