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Comprehensive plan update is community process

Drew Dotson
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
The city of Hartwell is working with the Georgia Mountain Regional Commission (GMRC) to update its comprehensive plan for the city. The plan, which needs to be updated every 10 years, is a requirement by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs to be eligible for different grants.
Photo submitted - Ben Tellano poses for a photo with the Angel Tree display at the Bell Family YMCA recently.

Photo submitted - Ben Tellano poses for a photo with the Angel Tree display at the Bell Family YMCA recently.

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Angel Tree is back at the YMCA again this Christmas

News Staff
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Ben Tellano, a senior 4-H’er, is organizing an Angel Tree project for Hart County again this year. He is sponsoring 100 needy children from the Hart County Department of Family and Child Services system.
Photo submitted - The new fountain that replaced the one damaged by vandals at the Anne King Garden in the Hart County Botanical Garden is shown.

Photo submitted - The new fountain that replaced the one damaged by vandals at the Anne King Garden in the Hart County Botanical Garden is shown.

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Officials find alleged botanical garden vandals

Grayson Williams
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
The alleged perpetrators of a vandalism incident at the Hart County Botanical Gardens have been caught and a new fountain has been installed to replace the destroyed one.
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#THROWBACK THURSDAY

News Staff
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Nov. 19, 1948 — Hartwell had a rat problem that required an extermination campaign by the Georgia State Department of Health. Four cases of typhus fever in the area in recent months caused Mayor Wilson Page and the Board of Aldermen to look into the matter.
Photo submitted - Children in Haiti smile with their Joybags given to them by Love Him Love Them ministries during a trip to Haiti last holiday season.

Photo submitted - Children in Haiti smile with their Joybags given to them by Love Him Love Them ministries during a trip to Haiti last holiday season.

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Ministry needs holiday volunteers

Drew Dotson
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
The Love Him Love Them Ministry of Lavonia needs volunteers for three ministry events in the next month. Love Him Love Them is partnering with Feed the Hunger to pack 10,000 meals to send to Haiti.
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HCHS graduation rate tops 95%

Grayson Williams
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
“Finish what you start” has been a motto in the Hart County Charter System — and the graduation rate appears to show employees and students are both taking the saying to heart. The state released the 2020 graduation rates last week and Hart County eclipsed the state average, 83.8 percent, with a 95.
Justin Saylors fixes a lighted snowflake to a utility pole on Depot Street Tuesday afternoon.

Justin Saylors fixes a lighted snowflake to a utility pole on Depot Street Tuesday afternoon.

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Hanging up the holidays

News Staff
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
A Hartwell public works crew canvassed the city on Tuesday, Nov. 17, hanging up Christmas decorations as Thanksgiving and the annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony nears next Tuesday.
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IBA approves $870M bonds for Purina

Michael Hall
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
An $870 million expansion to the Nestlé-Purina facility in Hartwell took a major step forward this week when the Hart County Industrial Building Authority approved a bond resolution. The IBA voted unanimously, 5-0, in a special-called meeting on Nov.
A fire at this Franklin Place apartment on Sunday is responsible for a local woman's death, local officials believe..

A fire at this Franklin Place apartment on Sunday is responsible for a local woman's death, local officials believe..

Woman perishes in fire

News Staff
Monday, November 16, 2020
An accidental house fire killed a local woman in Hartwell on Sunday. Sharon Montgomery, 62, of Hartwell, died Sunday, Nov. 15 at apartment 304 in 84 West Franklin Place after her residence caught on fire. The Office of Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John F.