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The Hart County Board of Election has released the unofficial results of Tuesday’s run-off between Dan Leard and Toy Cynthia Wilkins for the Hartwell City Council seat being vacated by Arthur Craft. With all of the votes counted, Elections Supervisor Robin Webb reports Leard received 215 votes or 55.13% to Wilkins’ 175 votes or 44.87%. With a registered voting population […]

The Christmas holiday season will officially kick-off for folks in Lavonia tonight with the annual lighting of the Lavonia Christmas tree. Tonight’s lighting takes place and activities will run from 5p to 7p with the tree lighting taking place at 6p at the Gazebo on Main St. downtown. Lavonia Welcome Center Director Barbara Busby says everyone is welcome to attend […]

The week following Thanksgiving isn’t just about shopping. Thanks to Giving Tuesday, it’s now a major time to support charity. Taking place on the Tuesday after Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the Giving Tuesday movement has helped raise more than $1 billion for online charitable giving worldwide since its creation in 2012. The BBB Wise Giving Alliance at Give.org urges […]

Former Emmanuel Men’s Basketball Coach, Jim Ganey (class of ’61), was inducted into the Emmanuel Athletics Hall of Fame on Saturday, November 20. Ganey attended Emmanuel from 1959-61, serving as captain or co-captain of the men’s intercollegiate basketball team for both years he played under Coach Bill White. He completed his bachelor’s degree at East Carolina University and earned his […]

The Georgia State Patrol is reporting 20 people died on Georgia roadways over the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend that began last Wednesday at 6p and ended at midnight Sunday. That included a fatality in Toccoa Saturday afternoon when a Seneca man, identified as 49-year old William Pate crashed the Harley Davidson motorcycle he was driving at the intersection of Whispering Pines […]