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The Hart County Imagination Library still has a few tickets left for Friday night’s low country boil.  The low country boil will be held at the Hart County Ag Center at 1579 Bowman Highway from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.  Patricia Werner is director of Hart Partners, the organization putting on the fundraiser.  She says the low country boil will be […]

The Franklin County Lady Lions basketball teams is back in action tonight in the Region 8AAA Tournament.  This time, they’ll take on another team of Lady Lions from Hebron Christian Academy (Dacula, GA).  Tip-off from host site Oconee County High School in Watkinsville is at 7:00. The Lady Lions advanced in the post-season tournament Monday afternoon after defeating Monroe Area […]

A follow up to story we first told you about on Tuesday regarding the Habersham County arrest of former Lavonia Assistant Fire Chief Shane Bentley.  According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the Cornelia Police Department requested the GBI Cleveland Office investigate a forgery identified at the fire department.  Bentley had been working as an assistant fire chief for the […]

A former Lavonia Assistant Fire Chief is facing charges in Habersham County. Shane Bentley was charged on February 2 with theft by taking and first-degree forgery after an investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. According to Rob Moore with the Habersham County Sheriff’s office Bentley turned himself in to Clarkesville Police on February 2 and is out on $3,500. […]

Franklin County continues to make adjustments to its UDC code and one area that has recently been adjusted is the Mobile Home Ordinance. In January, County Commission Chair Jeff Jacques called for a review of certain areas of the Unified Development Code and one of those areas had to do with mobile homes. SEC 3-127 of the UDC required a […]