Franklin County Citizen Leader, Lavonia, Georgia

The 2018 Franklin County High School Marching Pride Band

A preview of the 2018 Marching Pride Band

The 2018 Marching Pride halftime show is entitled “By the Light.” The idea behind the program, as described on the band website at fchsband.net, is, “The Moon has significance in cultures throughout history, feared and respected, representing life,...

New coach wants physical offense and defense

Everything is new in Franklin County in 2018. New Head Coach Paul Sutherland brings an almost completely new staff to the Lions program. Sutherland spent the past 17 years as head coach at Pendleton, S.C., High School, where he amassed a 122-67...

Backed up traffic at Royston Elementary School has caused school to be let out early in the first few days of school. School and city officials are looking into options to address the problem. (Photo courtesy of the Royston Police Department)

City, school seek solution to traffic woes

ROYSTON – The Royston City Council and Police Chief Donnie Bolemon will be looking at ways to fix traffic congestion that has plagued the area around Royston Elementary School during the first week of school. The council discussed the traffic...

The hallways of Franklin County's schools will fill with parents and students for the first day of school tomorrow.

3,655 students to start new school year Friday

CARNESVILLE – Friday marks the first day of the 2018-19 school year in Franklin County for students. A total of 3,655 students are scheduled to report to classes on Franklin County’s six campuses. Preplanning for teachers began Monday. Open houses...

Sunday sales added to Royston ballot

ROYSTON – City voters will have two alcohol-related questions to answer in a special election on Nov. 6. The Royston City Council had already announced plans to ask voters to allow liquor-by-the-drink from Monday through Saturday in the city limits...

A forensic artist’s sketch has been completed for an unidentified body found in February 2017 near Commerce.

GBI updates information for skeleton found in 2017

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) continues to seek the public’s assistance in identifying human remains found near Interstate 85 in February of 2017. On Feb. 5, 2017, a skeleton was discovered in a wooded area near New Salem Methodist...

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New director brings purposeful direction to band

The Franklin County High School band program now has one focus: the students.

By Shane Scoggins

Elementary gridlock

ROYSTON – The Royston City Council and Police Chief Donnie Bolemon will be looking at ways to fix traffic congestion that has plagued the area around Royston Elementary School during the first week

By Shane Scoggins

3,655 students to start new school year Friday

CARNESVILLE – Friday marks the first day of the 2018-19 school year in Franklin County for students.

By Kandice S. Eberhardt

Sunday sales added to Royston ballot

ROYSTON – City voters will have two alcohol-related questions to answer in a special election on Nov. 6.

By Shane Scoggins

GBI updates information for skeleton found in 2017

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) continues to seek the public’s assistance in identifying human remains found near Interstate 85 in February of 2017.

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Power, physical play the focus of ‘blue collar’ Lions

“Do your job!”

Several times during Friday night’s scrimmage against Commerce, new Franklin County Lion Head Football Coach Paul Sutherland called out the command to his team.

“Do your job!”

It’s an appropriate slogan for the 2018 Franklin County Lions.

Sutherland talks regularly about his team’s “blue collar mentality.”

Yankees, Braves greats to appear at Cobb Museum event

A New York Yankees great and a popular contributor to the Atlanta Braves early 1990s turnaround will be the headliners for the 20th Anniversary Celebration of the Ty Cobb Museum July 26-28.

Bobby Richardson, the Yankees’ second baseman from 1955-66, will be the keynote speaker for the Breakfast of Champions event July 28 at the John W. Swails Center at Emmanuel College.

Reeling in Nationals

Two fishing teams from Franklin County High School will compete in August in the national fishing tournament sponsored by Bass Nation.

The teams of Tyler Campbell and Joe Mitchell and Grayson York and Colman Hill will travel to Paris, Tenn., for the national tournament on Kentucky Lake Aug. 2-4.