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Chamber hosts workshop aimed at helping small businesses secure funding
Often times would-be entrepreneurs may have great ideas as well as the skills necessary to provide a service for a community where the demand for that business may even be high, but one thing they often lack is the funding to get their plans off the ground. The Jefferson County...
Jefferson County Public Library receives donation of Wrens High School yearbooks
After giving multiple decades of service to the Wrens community as the principal of Wrens High School and later Wrens Middle, the children of Henry “Mickey” Mauney have donated his collection of yearbooks to McCollum Public Library so that they can be available to his former students for years to come.
Organizer planning for Annual Statewide Bible Reading
For the fourth year in a row Christy Williams is organizing Jefferson County’s participation in the Annual Statewide Bible Reading. “The response has been good,” Williams said. “I would like to see it grow and have more people hear about it. It’s kind of a grassroots movement. There isn’t an organization per se, it’s just a bunch of individuals volunteering to organize it for their counties.”
Jefferson County discusses changes to solar facilities ordinance
With several solar power companies approaching area landowners and seeking tax abatements to locate in Jefferson County, commissioners recently reviewed zoning changes aimed to protect the value of neighboring properties. A new proposed solar power collection facility land use ordinance addresses anti-glare, establishes a minimum lot sizes, requires specific setbacks...
Area law enforcement holds active shooter training
With weapons drawn, Jefferson County Sheriff’s deputies and Louisville Police officers, moved down the school hallway toward the sound of gunfire. Their goals, since this was a simulation, were to hone their skills stopping an active shooter threat and practice assessing potentially deadly scenarios. JCSO Corporal Todd Hanchey, who...
Voters replace Jefferson County’s District 2 commissioner
Some 327, or 11.34 percent of the 2,884 registered voters in Jefferson County’s District 2 voted for new representation on the local county commission. In a runoff election Tuesday, June 18, Rodney F. McKinnie received 221 votes to incumbent Johnnie Davis’ 106. McKinnie is a nearly lifelong resident...
Jefferson County deputies locate missing 17-year-old girl
LOUISVILLE, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office has found a missing 17-year-old. Amanquie Myeasha Gamble had last been seen Sunday around 10 p.m., when she left work at Popeye’s in Louisville. Authorities sent out an alert about her Tuesday morning, but she’d been found by late...
Construction begins at deadly Jefferson County intersection
Georgia Department of Transportation (DOT) contractors have begun construction on a project aimed at saving lives at what some Jefferson County emergency responders say is by far the deadliest single intersection in the area. Dave Beachy, chief of the nearby Hillcrest Fire Department, said that he has begun to loathe the tone for...
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