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Wilbur Elder, Jr. Wilbur Elder, Jr., son of the late Wilbur Elder, Sr. and Cozzie Mae Tolbert Elder, was born December 4, 1936 at five a. m. in Coweta County.

The physician partnership NGTC Health Properties said it will construct a $52 million, 56-bed hospital in Lavonia, Ga., replacing two larger hospitals in the region operated by Ty Cobb Healthcare System, which will manage the new facility.

Code-enforcement officers are spotting more Athens residents who park cars in their front yards, leave garbage cans out too long or violate other local laws, according to a recent county audit.

The Ty Cobb Regional Medical Center, a $52 million, 56-bed hospital that would consolidate two hospitals in the region could open in Lavonia in 2011.

A rendering of the planned Ty Cobb Regional Medical Center. View Larger A new $52 million hospital is planned for Lavonia in rural Northeast Georgia.

The American Sprint Car Series Rebel Region fires back into action for the first time since January with Saturday night's series debut at Georgia's Lavonia Speedway.

Henry Mabbett of Griffin fired a final-round 69 for a 1-under-par 141 total to erase a three-shot deficit and take medalist honors in the boys division Sunday at the Preseason Junior at Chateau Elan.

A Gainesville man, who lost a daughter in the 9/11 attacks, has died. Rev. Eddie Stephens was a well-known minister in parts of northeast Georgia.

A hundred years ago, the good people of Lavonia - a sleepy Southern railroad town in 1909 - petitioned Pennsylvania steel baron and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie to build their town a library.

Lake Hartwell Association is having its first regional meeting for members and guests at 7 p.m., Thursday, at the Holiday Inn Express in Lavonia, Ga.

Thinking Right's weekend free-for-all. Pick a topic: The economy's hit bare bottom.

Authorities captured robbery suspects in Athens this morning after a high-speed chase across three counties that ended in a crash on the Athens Perimeter near U.S. Highway 129.

Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents arrested a man in Athens on Thursday in connection with a Lavonia jewelry store burglary after he led authorities on a four-county chase that ended with a crash on the Athens Perimeter.

A Clarke County judge sentenced a teenage illegal immigrant to eight years in prison for hitting and killing a woman while driving drunk along Commerce Road last summer.

Michael Johnson is pictured in 1988 on his first long distance motorcycle trip. He rode the entire Blue Ridge Parkway and Skyline Drive.

Published: Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 4:30 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at 9:19 p.m. Margaret 'Peggy' Joyce Scott, 74, passed away Monday, March 30, 2009, at her mountain home in Saluda.

Lapczynski, Edward J., 41, of Lavonia; 5 p.m. at the funeral home chapel; Strickland Funeral Home, Hartwell, has charge of arrangements.

Lavonia Bishop, an instructor at Woodville-Tompkins, has been named the 2009 Career, Technical and Agricultural Education Teacher of the Year for SCCPSS.

Investigators in South Carolina and Georgia say that they are trying to track down the people who have robbed or tried to rob five different motels in four days.

Commerce-based Freedom Bank of Georgia was seized by state and federal regulators late Friday, with Lavonia, Ga.-based Northeast Georgia Bank and will take control of the branches and deposits of the failed ...