Northeast Georgia

A lease-purchase agreement is now in place for Stephens County to secure seven new fire trucks using revenue from the county’s special purpose local option sales tax V.

Sheriff Randy Shirley said the scam involves a number from the western United States.

Event scheduled to happen Friday and Saturday

A discussion about the Doyle Street Pool yielded a short-term solution, although short-term and long-term concerns were raised.

A public hearing about property tax exemptions for residents over age 65 is set to happen tonight in Royston before the regular City Council meeting.

Northeast Georgia Animal Shelter representatives will be on hand at a Hart County Board of Commissioners meeting tonight to find out what the county has decided regarding increasing its share of funding to the shelter.

City commissioners for Toccoa are making final preparations for interviews this Thursday with the three finalists for the city manager position.

Discussion of seven new fire trucks is a highlight of the agenda for a Stephens County Board of Commissioners meeting today.

After meeting in a called session Monday evening, Franklin County commissioners set priority list.

Royston is applying for its own grant to shore up its sewer lines and waterlines.

No timeline is set yet for Gov. Sonny Perdue to decide who will fill the vacant Superior Court judge post in the Mountain Judicial Circuit.

The Georgia Department of Labor says the state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose to a record 10.4 percent in January, and Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond says the job crisis is getting worse.

Shoal Creek Baptist Church in Lavonia has a new pastor six months after its former pastor, the Rev. Jonathan Ayers, was fatally shot by undercover drug agents in Toccoa.

Three names are on the short list of people who could replace Mountain Judicial Circuit Superior Court Judge Ernest “Bucky” Woods.

Carnesville, Ga., area plant would create jobs, pay taxes, save energy, proponents say.