The Hartwell Police Department reported the following incidents and citations:

A Dodge Ram caught fire Thursday afternoon just before it entered downtown Hartwell.

Owners of vacant lots looking to tap on to county water will now have to make a long-term commitment.

At the regular Bowersville Town Council meeting on Aug. 15:

Anna Smith wasn’t raised as a farm girl in the traditional sense.
“I lived in a subdivision, but we had horses and I rode horses all my life,” she said.

Hart County Community Theatre is hosting a carnival event in downtown Hartwell.

As many other youth their age were taking in the last few days of summer, five Hart County 4-H’ers were competing among the best in Georgia at the State 4-H Congress in Atlanta.

Opportunities for tourism of all varieties is ripe and ready to pick in Hart, Stephens and Franklin counties, according to a group of statewide experts and officials who gathered Tuesday in Hartwel

Steven Cooper isn’t interested in doing things half way. He can’t be if he is to complete his second trip dribbling a basketball across the entire breadth of the continental U.S.

An intoxicated Royston man allegedly drove through a road check set up by local law enforcement before he was PIT maneuvered and arrested early Sunday morning.