The Voice of Wonderful NE Georgia
Hundreds of students are receiving help to attend North Georgia Technical College thanks to the school’s foundation. Recently, the North Georgia Technical College Foundation announced that it awarded more than $60,000 in scholarships this past semester, providing financial assistance to 246 students for the Fall 2016 semester by bridging the gap between financial resources they had available and the funds […]
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The Stephens County Indians and Lady Indians hosted North Oconee Tuesday night at the Currahee Arena in Toccoa and split the varsity games in Region 8-AAAA basketball action. In the boys’ game, Stephens County led by 11 at the end of the first period, but North Oconee trimmed the lead to just 6 at halftime. In the second half, the […]
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The city of Toccoa is implementing a penalty for businesses that do not pay their business license fee on time. Commissioners approved the new penalty on Monday. A business in the city of Toccoa must pay to renew its business license by March 1 each year. However, Toccoa City Manager Billy Morse said enforcing that date with a penalty has […]
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Toccoa sets the schedule for its city commission election this Fall. On Monday, city commissioners unanimously approved the General Election Ordinance that sets all the dates and fees for the November election. Toccoa City Manager Billy Morse did note that there are a couple of differences this year in the qualifying process. “There are two things that are different from […]
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Preparations are scheduled to get underway for the next phase of the downtown Toccoa streetscape project this week. The Toccoa Main Street office said that in anticipation of the construction of Phase Six Streetscape in downtown Toccoa, saw-cutting will take place on Wednesday, February 1 beginning at approximately 8:30 a.m. According to Toccoa Main Street, the contractor will be cutting […]
Read moreStephens County Commissioners have announced a called meeting that will take place later this morning. Today’s called meeting of the Stephens County Commission will take place at 10 a.m. in the historic Stephens County Courthouse in downtown Toccoa. There is only one item on the agenda for the called meeting. That is consideration of a motion to authorize the county […]
Read moreA local health care facility comes together to celebrate a new beginning. Thursday, the Toccoa-Stephens County Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for NGPG Toccoa Clinic, the former Toccoa Clinic, at its administrative offices in the Foothills Centre on Big A Road in Toccoa. The Northeast Georgia Physicians Group took over the clinic last Fall and put it under […]
Read moreStephens County High School wrestlers set a school record. On Saturday, Stephens County hosted the Region 8-AAAA Area Wrestling Tournament at the Currahee Arena in Toccoa. The Indians qualified a school-record ten wrestlers into the State Sectional Tournament through the area tournament, breaking the previous record of eight wrestlers. Finishing as area runners-up for the Indians were Lee Massey at […]
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Toccoa Police Chief Tim Jarrell is helping out a Habersham County town in the absence of its police chief. Jarrell is serving as the Interim, Part-Time Chief in the town of Mt. Airy while its Chief, Corey Allen, is reportedly on administrative leave. According to Jarrell, he was contacted last week about filling the post on a temporary basis and […]
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Toccoa City Commissioners have a busy day planned today. The city commission meets for a planning session, work session, and regular meeting later today. First, Toccoa City Commissioners are meeting for a planning session with the city’s Downtown Development Authority at 1:30 p.m. During the planning session, the DDA and Toccoa City Commissioners are expected to discuss the goals for […]
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