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The former officer sued Raymond, Franklin County and Connell Mayor Lee Barrow in March 2022. It became part of the complaints raised by Raymond’s opponents during his most recent re-election bid.
Franklin County farmers who participate in the program are paid $50 per acre for their cornstalks, with an acre being defined as being 218 feet long and 200 feet wide.
The Franklin County Board of Commissioners granted $5 million in COVID-19 funds to the Affordable Housing Trust to help emerging minority developers.
Franklin County is the setting for Matt Bondurant's historical novel, The Wettest County in the World (2008) set in the Prohibition era, featuring his grandfather and two great-uncles among the bootleggers. Franklin County is featured in the film Lawless (2012), adapted from the novel in a screenplay by Nick Cave. It is directed by John Hillcoat.
In a deal announced on March 31, 2015, the Bulletin and The Franklin News-Post were purchased from Haskell Newspapers by BH Media Group. Haskell Newspapers was a company privately owned by the Haskell family. The Haskell family bought the Martinsville Bulletin in 1948. [5]
The Great Moonshine Conspiracy Trial of 1935 resulted in the indictment of 80 people involved in the illegal production and distribution of moonshine whisky in Virginia. At the time, Franklin County was believed to produce the highest volume of illegal liquor in the U.S., colloquially referred to as "the moonshine capital of the world."
The Franklin County solar fields are situated in two areas on Warm Spring Road, in Peters Township (across from Hager Road) and in St. Thomas Township (just north of the village of Williamson ...
The Franklin County Courier is a weekly newspaper in Enosburg Falls, Vermont USA which is released on Thursdays. [1] [2] It is more often referred to as the County Courier. The County Courier, which has an estimated circulation of 4,100, serves Franklin County as well as the communities of Alburgh, Jeffersonville, Waterville, and Belvidere ...