Author: MJ Kneiser

After the record-breaking turnout last week for advance in-person voting, today Georgians across the State are going to the polls to decide who will win a six-year term for the Georgia U.S. Senate seat now held by incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock. Warnock assumed office on January 20, 2021, filling the unexpired term of former Senator Johnny Isakson who died in […]

SK Battery America will be holding a job fair in Hartwell at the Hartwell Armory this Saturday from 10a to noon. SK Battery America is the global leading manufacturer of batteries for electric vehicles. The Company plans to produce batteries that will be installed in the Ford F-150 Lightning and Volkswagen ID.4 electric vehicles and they are expanding their workforce. […]

St. Mary’s Health Care System and its colleagues and volunteers have once again helped those who cannot always help themselves. Spokesman Mark Ralston said this year, the employees and volunteers of of St. Mary’s broke the record for the amount of turkeys they donated to local food banks. Just before Thanksgiving, St. Mary’s Health Care System and its colleagues and […]

An Elbert County man has been arrested by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and charged with obscene internet contact with a child. He is 54-year old Paul Brooks of Elbert County. GBI spokeswoman Natalie Ammons tells WLHR News the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Child Exploitation and Computer Crimes initiated an investigation after receiving a request for assistance from the Elbert […]

Five local students were recently nominated for the North Georgia Technical College Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership. They include Valentino DiGiorgio of Hartwell, Lana Rice of Toccoa, Joseph Smith of Eastanollee, Samantha Turner of Toccoa, and Carmen Vidal of Toccoa. GOAL, a statewide program of the Technical College System of Georgia, honors excellence in academics and leadership among the state’s […]