Franklin County News

More than 350 Franklin County fourth-graders attended the Fourth Annual Agriculture Celebration held at Franklin County High School Agriculture Education Department on April 18.

Franklin County authorities charged a Toccoa teen with burglary and vandalism to a place of worship in connection with a series of break-ins at a Franklin County church over the last three months.

Darrieon Robinson, senior, Clarke Central: Robinson won the Athens Area meet with a personal record of 10.86 and finished fourth in the Region 8-AAAA meet with a time of 11.08. 200-meter dash Trent Huling, ...

Health officials have identified three cases of salmonella poisoning in central Ohio, the first cases in the state linked to tainted tomatoes.

Lauren Lipcsei, a senior striker/midfielder for the Monroe Area High School girls soccer team, has been selected to the Region 8-AAA all-star squad by the league's coaches.

The annual Franklin County Relay for Life took place in Royston last week, signaling the culmination of months of fundraising from a multitude of people, businesses and organizations around the county.

The Toccoa Record The upcoming fiscal year will present some real challenges for Stephens County, according to finance director Phyllis Ayers, and the proposed FY09 budget shows just how tough those challenges ...

The Toccoa Record State Rep. Jeanette Jamieson stressed to the Department of Transportation recently the importance of getting funding for the four-laning of Highway 17 to the Franklin County line.

An allegation of misappropriation of funds has initiated an investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation at the Franklin County Chamber of Commerce and Industrial Building Authority.

Staff writer The Hart County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously May 27 to accept changes proposed by the Hart County Hospital Authority to a lease agreement between the hospital and Ty Cobb Health Care ...

County Guide offers insight into communities Information from lottery ticket sales to drop out rates given in Georgia County Guide.

“He had taken his seat belt off and unlocked the car door, so the dad slowed down”

A strange twist emerged Saturday to the story of a pedestrian who was struck and killed on I-85 in Franklin County Thursday morning. via WDUN-AM Gainesville

“The ambulance was about a minute away when (Everson) got out and started running into traffic”

Story updated at 10:58 PM on Monday, May 5, 2008 A pedestrian who was killed Thursday on Interstate 85 in Franklin County jumped from his father's vehicle seconds before he was struck by a tractor-trailer, ... via Athens Banner-Herald

Story updated at 8:50 PM on Sunday, May 4, 2008 If they can restrain themselves from declaring bureaucratic war on a neighboring state to get at its water, as well as from keeping people from buying a bottle of ... via Athens Banner-Herald

Story updated at 10:31 PM on Thursday, May 1, 2008 Georgia State Patrol troopers rerouted traffic from a section of Interstate 85 in Franklin County on Thursday morning after a tractor-trailer truck struck and ... via Athens Banner-Herald

Story updated at 12:10 on Thursday, May 1, 2008 All lanes have been reopened on Interstate 85 in Franklin County after closures this morning following the death of a pedestrian who police say ran into traffic ... via Athens Banner-Herald

“The main thing is (the developer) is very interested in being a good neighbor to the community”

A Madison County landowner is looking to build a 152-acre retreat center near Danielsville where evangelicals would train for missionary work. via Athens Banner-Herald

“As if traffic wasn't already bad enough in this area (especially in the afternoons), this construction of what appears to be a project which will do nothing to ultimately improve the flow of traffic in the area is annoying, to say the least!”

Motorists on Ga. 400 in Forsyth County are doing a double-take these days. And it's not over a fender-bender or abandoned clunker. via The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Hi I am looking for info on the Atkinson, Roach Crow, Looney, Vaugthers, Wrights, James family of Franklin County, Georgia. via Cousinconnect.com

Story updated at 7:51 PM on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 The Franklin, Jackson and Madison County Young Farmers Association will hold a replacement heifer sale on Friday at the Franklin County Livestock Market on ... via Athens Banner-Herald