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In Hart County, two people are charged with trafficking marijuana after Hart County Sheriff’s investigators and agents with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation conducted two search warrants. In a press release issued by Sheriff Mike Cleveland Wednesday, GBI agents and Hart County Investigators went to a home on Ridge Road Tuesday where they recovered what Cleveland said was a “trafficking […]

Franklin County Interim Elections Supervisor Tracie Creason has been given the job permanently. At the Board of Elections meeting Wednesday, Chairman Scott Andrews announced they had hired Creason as the new Elections Supervisor. “It is my honor and privilege to announce that Tracie is our new Elections Supervisor. We are really excited about that. She’s done a great job. She’s […]

The Hart County Charter System has announced its 2023 PAGE STAR Student. He is Hart County High School senior Tate Phillips. Tate selected Mrs. Melissa Morgan-Phillips, a Calculus teacher at Hart County High School, to be the STAR Teacher. Tate, the son of Chapin and Brie Phillips, earned the STAR Student recognition for academic achievement and performance on the SAT. […]

Funeral services were held Wednesday in Toccoa, for one of the victims in the car crash Sunday in Athens that killed a UGA football player and UGA recruiter and injured two others. Services for 24-year-old Chandler LeCroy were held Wednesday afternoon at First Baptist Church in Toccoa. According to the police incident report obtained by the Associated Press, LeCroy and […]

State Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John F. King said his office continues to look into the cause of a house fire that killed an elderly woman in Stephens County. It happened January 6 when at about 11:55a a passing motorist reported a woods fire on Oak Valley Road in Toccoa. Another caller also reported a residential structure fire at […]