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By MJ Kneiser, WLHR Radio, Lavonia After a lengthy heated discussion, the Hart County Board of Commissioners has signed off on the job description for the position of County Administrator. At their meeting Tuesday night, Interim County Administrator Terrell Partain said the job description is in place from the Georgia Mountains Regional Development Commission with few changes. County Commissioner RC […]
Read moreA northeast Georgia man is re-appointed to the state’s Board of Juvenile Justice. On Thursday, Governor Nathan Deal re-appointed Fred Stephens of Cleveland to the Board of Juvenile Justice. Stephens is the interim police chief for the Clarke County School District Police Department. He retired from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation after more than 31 years of service and then […]
Read moreFinal summer preparations are underway before Fall football practice gets started at Stephens County High School. Indians’ Head Football Coach Frank Barden said that the team has done a great job with its summer workouts for the past several weeks. “Our kids have done a good job getting in the weight room and getting in the conditioning program,” said Barden. […]
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Stephens County Sheriff Randy Shirley said nobody was hurt in a structure fire at a mobile home park Wednesday. Crews responded to the mobile home park on Madden Drive, that is just off of Memorial Drive off of Big A Road on Wednesday for the blaze. Shirley said there was someone inside the structure, but they did not suffer any […]
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Stephens County Board of Education Chair Tony Crunkleton welcomes Bill Wheeler to the board. Crunkleton spoke Wednesday on the school board’s choice of Wheeler to fill the vacancy on the Board of Education created by Jeff Webb’s resignation in April. Wheeler was chosen from a group of six candidates in a unanimous vote by the Board of Education on Tuesday. […]
Read moreStephens County School Superintendent Bryan Dorsey said that state auditors have again changed the timeline for releasing the school system’s Fiscal Year 2014 and 2015 audits. According to Dorsey, the state has now told him that those two audits will likely be released to the school system at the same time, rather than separately. He said that this change is […]
Read moreThe first part of the four-lane Highway 17 between Toccoa and the Franklin County line goes four lanes, at least for a time. A small stretch of the highway around the Toccoa By-pass intersection was open to four lanes of traffic, two in each direction, on Wednesday. Also, a traffic light is up at the intersection where the By-pass comes […]
Read moreBy Buddy Hardigree, WLHR Radio, Lavonia Franklin County has approved an update in the county’s code of ordinances. The county’s code of ordinances hasn’t been updated since 2002. This update will include all the legislation that has taken place since then. According to Franklin County Engineer John Phillips, the estimated cost of the project is $7,500. Phillips said the county […]
Read moreThe Georgia Bureau of Investigation said that arrests are on the rise for child exploitation cases. According to a press release issued on Wednesday, the agency said that the number of arrests resulting from investigations conducted and coordinated by the GBI’s Child Exploitation and Computer Crimes Unit and the Georgia Interent Crimes Against Children Task Force has steadily risen over […]
Read moreThe Georgia Department of Labor says that the state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in June dropped to 5.1 percent, down two-tenths of a percentage point from 5.3 percent in May. The rate was 5.8 percent in June 2015. State Labor Commissioner Mark Butler said the state has not had unemployment this low in Georgia since December 2007. Butler said that […]
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