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Officials with Vulcan Materials will be holding a meet and greet this afternoon for people living near their proposed rock quarry on Highway 59 just outside of Lavonia as rock and gravel quarry. In June, Vulcan Materials closed on 225 acres that was once the site of the old Milliken plant. Vulcan reportedly paid $3.5 million dollars for the property. […]

The Ark Family Preservation Center in Franklin Springs has received a$10,000 grant from the United Way of Northeast Georgia. Since 2014, the Ark has served families in ten Northeast Georgia counties, including Banks, Elbert, Franklin, Hart, Madison, and Stephens counties with a number of services designed to keep families together. These include working to provide supervised family visitation for children […]

Advance voting for the municipal races in Franklin and Hart County is slow so far as expected. Last week, just 56 voters cast an early ballot in all three municipal races being handled by the County Elections office and that includes the alcohol referendums. Voters in Lavonia, Carnesville, and Canon are selecting City Council members. Royston voters are casting ballots […]

By Ethan Jordan, WNEG Radio, Toccoa In Stephens County, HOPE for a Drug Free Stephens invites all Recovery Champions and Community Leaders to a Community Listening Session this evening, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Historic Ritz Theatre. HOPE for a Drug Free Stephens Co-Chair Kathy Whitmire says this community forum is being held to learn how the […]

A Canon woman was killed Monday afternoon in a three-vehicle wreck on the 17 Bypass in Toccoa. She is identified as 35-year old Shonda Hart of Canon. According to the Georgia State Patrol Toccoa Post 7 Commander Donnie Sadler, Hart was driving north on Memorial Drive in a Ford Explorer when she failed to stop at the stop sign at […]