Animal, Family Reunited By Micro-Chip

A micro-chip results in a happy reunion for a family with its senior dog. Toccoa-Stephens County Humane Shelter Director Jeff Roberts said that Animal Control responded to a Poplar Street address recently to pick up a dog that had wandered up to a home. “Some nice people felt sorry for Bailey because he came up to their house shivering,” said […]

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NGTC Announces Rick Perkins Award Winner

Emergency Medical Services Program Director and Instructor Charles Hill of Cleveland is this year’s Rick Perkins Award for Excellence in Technical Education at North Georgia Technical College. Each year faculty and staff at North Georgia Technical College nominate instructors who exemplify excellence in teaching. The nominees participate in a series of interviews which help determine the winner and the instructor […]

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Hospital Authority Holds Regular Meeting

Toccoa Falls College will lease some property back from Stephens County Hospital. The Stephens County Hospital Authority unanimously approved a lease agreement for the property with the college at its monthly meeting on Monday night. Stephens County Hospital Administrator Lynne Anderson said the property that the college is leasing from the hospital is actually land that used to belong to […]

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Charges Filed in Royston Car Theft

A Hart County man is in custody, charged with the theft of two cars from Tri-County Chevrolet last month. According to the Hart County Sheriff’s Office, 38-year-old Michael Thomas Evans of Hart County was arrested earlier this month after a tip led sheriff’s deputies to a deer camp on Cokesbury Highway where Evans and two other suspects were thought to […]

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Veterans Workshops Scheduled in NE Ga.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will conduct counseling workshops for veterans at Georgia Department of Labor career centers in Stephens and Habersham counties this week. The first will be held today at the Toccoa Career Center’s conference room located at 37 Foreacre Street. A second workshop will be held Thursday at the Labor Department’s Habersham Career Center located at […]

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School Calendar Discussions Underway in Stephens Co.

The Stephens County School System is looking at a couple of different calendar options for the 2016-2017 school year that have no furlough days for teachers and employees. Stephens County School Superintendent Bryan Dorsey presented the Board of Education with two different calendar proposals at Thursday’s Board of Education work session. Both of the calendars contained a full allotment of […]

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Reminder: Stephens Co. Schools In Session This Week

Stephens County schools are scheduled to be in regular session both today and the rest of the week following the President’s Day holiday. Originally scheduled as inclement weather recovery days, the Stephens County Board of Education voted back in October to add all four days this week, today through Friday, back into the calendar as normal school days. Meanwhile, Stephens […]

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SCHS Tennis Starts Season

The Indians tennis teams opened their 2016 on Thursday, Feb. 11 at Jackson County. The Lady Indians lost 1-4. Senior Sarah Whitworth got the only girls win at #1 singles. The Indians lost 2-3. Freshmen Ben Smith and Noah Heaton got singles wins for the boys. Next match is at home vs. Lumpkin County on Wed, Feb. 17.

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Fatal Fire Friday Ruled Accidental

An investigation confirmed that a fatal fire Friday in Stephens County was an accident. 67-year-old Gwendolyn Bohannon and her 39-year-old daughter, Amy Bohannon, died in a fire that occurred at a doublewide mobile home Friday evening on Linda Drive, which is off of Rose Lane, in Toccoa. Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens said investigators revealed that the fire was the […]

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