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Toccoa Main Street Manager Connie Tabor has been recognized with the Starr Award by the Georgia Cities Foundation for her efforts in restoring her city’s historic downtown district. The award was presented on Aug. 9 during the Georgia Municipal Association’s Annual Convention. Tabor has led the city’s effort to restore its downtown since 1990, securing $1.4 million in state and […]

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Classes begin today at Emmanuel College and the college administration has been working all summer to address how to handle the COVID and the delta variant outbreak once students are back. In July, the college posted their 14-page COVID Response directive for students, faculty, and staff on how COVID will be handled this year and that was updated for the […]

The Hart County Charter System’s new school year is off to a good start, according to School Superintendent Jay Floyd, but traffic is still a problem. One school, in particular, North Hart Elementary, is struggling with how to handle the volume of cars going in to and out of campus in the morning and afternoon and Floyd said it’s causing […]

You may have seen the orange barrels lining the side of the bridge over I-85 in Lavonia. Crews with the Georgia Department of Transportation have started work on bridge maintenance and repair on the Highway 17 bridge and that will also require lane closures on 17 through Sunday. The lane closures will be in place every night from 7p to […]