Author: Charlie Bauder

A man is okay after being rescued from a tree last week in Habersham County. It happened on Tuesday afternoon on the 200 block of Spring Street in Clarkesville. According to Clarkesville Fire Chief Jerry Palmer, a man, whose identity was not released, was working to take down a tree and was climbing that tree and removing limbs as he […]

The city of Toccoa is reporting a sanitary sewer spill that took place over the weekend. City officials said that at about 9:45 p.m. on Saturday, city employees discovered a manhole near North Pond Street overflowing with the overflowing wastewater flowing into a small creek that serves as a tributary to Toccoa Creek. The employees said that the overflow lasted […]

Toccoa City Commissioners have a regularly scheduled meeting set for later today. The city commission will meet at 5 p.m. today at Toccoa City Hall. As of now, there is not a lot on the agenda for today’s meeting. In addition to the normal time allowed for reports and the approval of the consent agenda, there is only one action […]

A new title pawn business opens in Toccoa. The Toccoa-Stephens County Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting on Thursday for Cash N Go Title Pawn Centers. Branch Manager Steven Reed said that while Cash N Go has numerous locations elsewhere, this is the company’s first home in Georgia. “You must have a clear title to do business here,” said […]

Parents said recently they want to try and help do something about concerns they have surrounding bullying and behavior in the Stephens County school system. Becky Hewitt, the chairperson of the Fifth Grade Academy Parent Teacher Organization, spoke to the Stephens County Board of Education at its meeting earlier this month. She said that she and many other parents are […]

Stephens County shows mixed results on the unemployment front in February. According to figures released Thursday by the Georgia Department of Labor, Stephens County had a preliminary unemployment rate of 6.2 percent in February. That is up three-tenths of a percentage point from the revised January rate of 5.9 percent. However, this February’s unemployment rate in Stephens County is a […]

By MJ Kneiser, WLHR Radio, Lavonia Refunds totaling $950 million may be waiting for an estimated one million taxpayers in the nation who did not file a federal income tax return for 2012. In Georgia, over $29 million in unclaimed refunds awaits 34,300 individuals. However, to collect the money, a return for 2012 must be filed with the IRS no […]

The Georgia Department of Transportation is planning to limit lane closures across the state this weekend for the Easter holiday. At a minimum, the Georgia DOT said it will limit lane closures on interstate highways and state routes from 9 p.m. tonight through midnight on Sunday. These times will be extended in some locales over the coming weekends around the […]

Toccoa appears in a list of the top micropolitan areas for economic development, according to a list by Site Selection magazine. That magazine recently released a list of micropolitan areas that landed the most facility deals in 2015. Site Selection magazine said that the Office of Management and Budget in the White House defines a micropolitan statistical area as one […]