CARNESVILLE – Sometime on Christmas Day, the Whidby family may just decide to pile into the family vehicle and head off on a trip to find some snow.

ROYSTON – Plans for an amphitheater at the Royston Wellness and Community Park got a boost Friday from an early Christmas present from a former mayor.

CARNESVILLE – Royston Elementary School is looking for a new principal.

CARNESVILLE – A wood-burning power plant near Carnesville was served Wednesday with a notice of violation by Franklin County Manager Elizabeth Thomas.

CARNESVILLE – Tax Commissioner Bobby Martin attended the Franklin County Board of Education’s work session Thursday night to ask the board to consider doubling the homestead exemption for seniors.<

CARNESVILLE – Carnesville Elementary School-Primary has been named a Distinguished School.

CARNESVILLE – Franklin County Commissioners declared the Georgia Renewable Power plant near Carnesville  a public nuisance Tuesday and will take its case to Magistrate Court.

Helen Dortch Longstreet was no stranger to controversy or fighting for the causes she believed in by the time the Georgia Railway and Power Company began work to dam Tallulah Falls in the 1910s.

LAVONIA – It is truly the end of an era.

And the beginning of another.

Monday night was the last Lavonia City Council regular meeting overseen by longtime mayor Ralph Owens.

CARNESVILLE – Franklin County officials want to offer elderly homeowners a bigger break on their property taxes.