Franklin Springs News

The Royston-Franklin Springs Pilot Club is accepting entries until Nov. 20 for a Holiday Beauty Pageant it will host Dec.

Two tied elections in Franklin County this week prove that your vote really does count.

In 2004, a tornado destroyed much of Franklin Springs, a small town 30 miles north of Athens.

The Royston-Franklin Springs Pilot Club will host a Holiday Beauty Pageant Dec. 5 at the Franklin County High School, 6570 Georgia Highway 145 in Carnesville.

Snow White Cast: "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the Musical" was performed by the Young Actors Studio in the Big Back Room of Buffalo's Southwest Cafe Aug.

Snow White Cast: "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the Musical" was performed by the Young Actors Studio in the Big Back Room of Buffalo's Southwest Cafe Aug.

Photo by Randall Franks Kayla Ray, center, receives the 2009 Pearl and Floyd Franks Scholarship from Randall Franks, right, Share America Foundation president; and Joe Turner, Share America Foundation chairman.

Six colleges in northeast Georgia - public and private - have agreed to participate in a revised GI Bill program.

Brownlee, Rhudy Edwin, 85, of Athens; 10 a.m. in the funeral home chapel, interment in Athens Memory Gardens; Lord & Stephens Funeral Home, EAST, Athens, has charge of arrangements.

The Georgia State Patrol identified the victim of a Saturday evening car crash as 22-year-old Brittani Panozza, of Greenville, N.C., a student at Emmanuel College in Franklin Springs.