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The Hartwell Sun

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Tort reform likely front-burner issue for 2025 General Assembly

News Staff
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
ATLANTA - Gov. Brian Kemp has made tort reform the main theme of his annual August address to Georgia political and business leaders two years running. But his Aug. 7 speech at this year’s Georgia Chamber of Commerce-sponsored Congressional Luncheon had a different ring to it than the 2023 version.
Dr. Devin Stephens, a family care physician with St. Mary’s Family Medicine, will be coming to Lavonia one Thursday each month to see patients at Sacred Heart Primary Care.

Dr. Devin Stephens, a family care physician with St. Mary’s Family Medicine, will be coming to Lavonia one Thursday each month to see patients at Sacred Heart Primary Care.

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Board-certified physician now seeing patients in Lavonia

Patrick Fargason - Editor and Publisher
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
Dr. Devin Stephens, a board-certified family care physician, is now seeing patients once Thursday a month in the offices of Sacred Heart Primary Care (SHPC) located in the medical office building at St. Mary’s Sacred Heart Hospital in Lavonia. As a family medicine physician, Dr.
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Photo by Chris Liveranis

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Rise in unemployment caused by seasonal, student workers

News Staff
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Georgia’s Labor Commissioner Bruce Thompson announced July 25 that all of Georgia’s Regional Commissions reported a rise in June unemployment rates. The Georgia Mountains Commission (GMRC), which encompasses Hart County reported a rise of six-tenths of a percent to 3.5 percent.
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Ossoff’s bill banning stock trading clears Senate committee

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Wednesday, July 31, 2024
ATLANTA – Legislation U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., first introduced two years ago to prohibit members of Congress from stock trading has cleared a key hurdle. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved the bill Wednesday, sending it to the Senate floor.