Four former Georgia Bulldogs are on Sunday’s Super Bowl rosters: Jordan Davis and Nakobe Dean are rookies for the Philadelphia Eagles; Mecole Hardman and Malik Herring play for the Kansas City Chiefs. Hardman, from Elbert County, is injured and won’t play in the game in Glendale Arizona.
The Franklin County School Board, meeting in Carnesville, votes to use two hundred thousand special purposes local option sales tax dollars to purchase equipment designed to detect weapons.
A Hart County physician is appealing his 2021 conviction on sexual battery and child molestation charges: Dr. Tommy Beeson, who is serving a 25-year prison sentence after he was found guilty in court in Hartwell, is asking for a new trial.
Alice Venter has been elevated from Mayor Pro Tem to Mayor in Baldwin: Joe Elam announced his resignation as mayor at this week’s meeting of the City Council in Baldwin, stepping down from the post he had held since 2018.
BRAG—the annual Bike Ride Across Georgia—announces the dates and destinations for this year’s ride. It will begin June 3 and traverse much of northeast Georgia, starting in Clayton with stops in Clarkesville, Gainesville, Braselton, and Winder as part of the 700-mile trek that will culminate on June 10 in Augusta.
The Sheriff’s Office in Habersham County was, at last report, still trying to track down a suspect in this week’s reported armed robbery of a convenience store. Investigators in Clarkesville say a man with a knife made off with an undisclosed amount of cash. There were no injuries.
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