Heard County News

LaGrange's unemployment rate dropped from a revised 14.7 percent in September to a preliminary 13.7 percent in October, according to the Georgia Department of Labor.

Fecal coliform bacteria levels in West Point Lake have dropped back to normal. Joe Maltese, a retired city employee who still consults for LaGrange and helps collect lake samples, said samples done Friday showed the bacteria counts were back below state water quality standards.

LaGrange attorney James G. Baker has been named to GeorgiaTrend magazine's "40 under 40" list.

A flash flood watch has been canceled for most of Georgia. The only flash flood watch still in effect is for Franklin, a community west of Atlanta in Heard County and on the Chattahoochee River.

Day two of the 39th annual Powers' Festival kicks off with Sunday morning gospel music from 9 to 10 a.m., and the Summerhouse Stage will be active all day long.

I am looking for any information about Rosetta Elizabeth Denham . She married Andrew Otha Cater and they lived in Heard County Georgia.

The 39th annual "Powers' Festival" with its new shorter moniker is working to attract a new generation to the now almost four-decades-old Labor Day tradition in Coweta County.

The 39th annual "Powers' Festival" with its new shorter moniker is working to attract a new generation to the now almost four-decades-old Labor Day tradition in Coweta County.

Should the Coweta County School System absorb the financial budget cuts proposed by Gov.

Heard County government officials broke ground Thursday for a $3 million public safety building financed by the county's special purpose local option sales tax.