Category: News

The Franklin County Charter System is seeing the highest number of COVID cases ever. In the chart released Tuesday on their Facebook page, there are currently 62 students with COVID in a total school population of 3,630. Additionally, 741 students have been quarantined for possible exposure to the virus – more than last year. As of Monday, 13 school employees […]

Fire officials are expected to be in downtown Royston today surveying the damage caused by a fire in two historic buildings. The fire broke out Tuesday evening around 7:30p according to officials but it is not clear how nor where it started. The building that housed the Old Corner Hardware Store restaurant was damaged along with a storage building. The […]

Property in Hartwell where a mixed-use development was once planned near the Walmart is now under contract. According to Hartwell City Manager Jon Herschel, a group called Mosaic is buying the 46-acres called Oakview Crossing. The sale will pay off a million-dollar loan the City has been paying monthly for the past year. In September 2012, officials with AnMed Healthcare […]

Two Northeast Georgia Sheriff’s are part of a new Gary Black for U.S. Senate campaign ad. Banks County Sheriff Carlton Speed and Jackson County Sheriff Janis Mangum can be seen on Black’s latest political TV ad that addresses what calls rising crime in the State. The ad can be viewed here Meantime, Black’s U.S. Senate campaign got an additional vote […]

Hartwell City Councilman Tray Hicks has been elected second vice president for District 2 of the Georgia Municipal Association. Hicks was named second VP at the association’s annual convention in Savannah on Aug. 8.  Tifton Mayor Julie Smith was elected first vice president. Hicks will serve as a liaison between GMA and municipal officials in GMA’s District 2. He will also […]