Planning continues for this year’s Memorial Day observance in Stephens County. This year’s Memorial Day observance will take place Monday at 11 a.m. on the lawn of the historic Stephens County Courthouse in downtown Toccoa. American Legion Post 104, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4346, Marine Corps Detachment 1303, and AMVETS Post 600 will...
A Martin resident is reporting a burglary to the Stephens County Sheriff’s Office. According to a report on file, a deputy responded to Avalon Road on Wednesday in reference to a reported burglary. The resident told the Sheriff’s Office that sometime last Wednesday afternoon; a firearm and some miscellaneous jewelry were taken from the...
Toccoa City Commissioners are expected to take a final vote on the city’s Fiscal Year 2014 budget at their meeting today (May 20). Commissioners held a first reading of the Fiscal Year 2014 budget at their last meeting on May 6. The proposed Fiscal Year 2014 budget presented two weeks ago totals just over...
The fight against cancer comes to downtown Toccoa. The 20th annual Stephens County Relay for Life took place Friday night in downtown Toccoa. This was the first time the Relay had made its home in downtown, moving from its previous location at Stephens County High School. American Cancer Society Stephens County Community Manager Tracey...
By MJ Kneiser, WLHR Radio, Lavonia The search goes on today for an escaped prisoner in Franklin County. Late Friday morning, 20-year-old Keibron Brock managed to climb over the wall and razor wire of the Franklin County Detention Center in Carnesville and disappear. Franklin County authorities, along with canine units from the Department of Natural Resources and other...
The Toccoa Police Department will use grant money to purchase a new piece of equipment. According to Toccoa Police Chief Tim Jarrell, the department has received an $8,000 grant through the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety to purchase a new intoxilyzer for use by the department. Jarrell said the intoxilyzer measures a driver’s blood...
Keep Toccoa-Stephens County Beautiful says its annual Cleanup Challenge is going well. The annual competitive cleanup event started in March. KTSCB Executive Director Linda Scofield updated county commissioners on how things have been going at last week’s meeting. Scofield said they have had a great response again to the event. “In April, I reported...
The totals are in for this year’s “Stamp Out Hunger” food drive in Stephens County. Stephens County Food Bank President Al Vulcano said more than 11,700 pounds of food was collected by letter carriers in Stephens County through the May 11 drive for the food bank. That is more than the 10,500 pounds of...
The Toccoa-Stephens County Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday for Christ Fellowship Church in Toccoa. Tim Miller is the Administrative and Teaching Pastor at Christ Fellowship. He said the church welcomes the community to visit its facility on Big A Road. “This facility is five years old,” said Miller. “The church actually...
The Stephens County Board of Education receives a tentative Fiscal Year 2013-2014 budget. School staff presented a tentative $31.9 million budget to the Board Thursday at a work session for review. Stephens County School Superintendent Sherrie Whiten said that the tentative budget assumes that there will not be any furlough days instituted in the...
