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Tax commission office reopening

Gary Jones

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

The Elbert County Tax Commissioner's Office stayed closed Monday but opened Tuesday after shutting down for three days last week from a lack of office personnel partly because Elbert County Tax Commissioner Lorrie Higginbotham tested positive for COVID-19.

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Damaged water lines are up and running again in Bowman

Rose Scoggins

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

The City of Bowman’s water system is back up and running after two water lines and a gas line were hit by contractors June 18, causing the city’s water system to shut down and placing city residents under a water boil advisory for at least 24 hours after it was back on.

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‘Working together’

Gary Jones

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Senior Superior Court Judge David Sweat told attorneys representing Sweet City Landfill and Elbert County he wants them “working together” over the next 30 days to “narrow things down” in the landfill’s suit against the county.

Rob Leverett and Tripp Strickland will face off in the runoff for the Georgia House of Representatives District 33 seat on Aug. 11.

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Azevedo: ‘I’m helping Rob’ in runoff

Gary Jones

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

If there is one thing House District 33 runoff candidates Rob Leverett and Tripp Strickland can agree on, it’s that neither care to be in a runoff.

Rob Leverett and Tripp Strickland will face off in the runoff for the Georgia House of Representatives District 33 seat on Aug. 11.

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House District 33, Congressional 9th runoffs will be held Aug. 11

Rose Scoggins

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Madison County’s Tripp Strickland and Elberton’s Rob Leverett will see their names once again on a ballot during the Aug. 11 runoff after last week’s primary election between the two candidates and third candidate Bruce Azevedo produced no majority winner.

There’s going to be a prom - rather a “Brom,” after all! Madison Harpold and Ethan Cone say the June 27 event will be open to any student from any county that didn’t get to have a prom because of COVID-19. (Photo by Scoggins)

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Harpolds, Cones host replacement for the canceled ECCHS 2020 prom

Rose Scoggins

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

After Elbert County Comprehensive High School (ECCHS) Principal Jason Kouns announced in his weekly YouTube update on May 11 that the high school would not be hosting a prom this year due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Madison Harpold and Ethan Cone’s families decided they would host one...

Land within the Elbert County Industrial Park. (Photo by Jones)

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Authority courting "cannabis cultivator and processor"

Rose Scoggins

Monday, June 15, 2020

A letter of intent for a “cannabis cultivator and processor” company will be on the agenda for the Development Authority of Elbert County, Elberton and Bowman’s meeting Wednesday. Silverleaf Health Alternatives Inc.

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Landfill hearing

Gary Jones

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Senior Superior Court Judge David Sweat will hold a video conference hearing Thursday at 10 a.m. to “consider the adequacy” of Elbert County’s answer to a higher court review of an appeal filed by Sweet City Landfill LLC.

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Superintendent says school system aims to start back Aug. 5

Gary Jones

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Elbert County School Superintendent Jon Jarvis told the Elbert County Board of Education Monday night that the school system is gearing up to start on Aug. 5. That is the date the school system was scheduled to begin classes for the 2020-2021 school year.

Athens attorney Jim Smith (left) represented Carrie Jill Peppers (right) in a bond hearing in Elbert County Superior Court Tuesday morning. Peppers is charged with second degree murder and second degree child cruelty in connection with the death of her eight-week-old son on May 29. (Photo by Scoggins)

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Peppers required to go to rehab

Rose Scoggins

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

A $25,000 bond was set by Superior Court Judge Jeff Malcom for Carrie Jill Peppers, 30, of 1602 Hartwell Highway, who was arrested May 31 and charged with murder in the second degree and cruelty to children in the second degree in connection with the death of her eight-week-old son, Lennox Lewis...