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.

LAVONIA – Progress is coming to Lavonia.

This is a statement that has been said about the city of Lavonia for decades. 

Local control. 

That is the driving force and business philosophy behind Paladin Wireless, a high-speed internet provider based in Royston and founded by Stephen Fortmann of Canon.

CARNESVILLE – Two people have been arrested for a 2015 theft from a Carnesville convenience store.

CARNESVILLE – One man suffered serious injuries last week when his car was rear-ended and pushed into a stopped school bus.

No children suffered any serious injuries in the accident.