Author: Charlie Bauder

Toccoa City Commissioners are expected to make a decision on the future operation of the city-owned Pines Golf Course at their meeting later today. The city commission meets at 5 p.m. today at Toccoa City Hall. Over recent weeks, city commissioners have heard three different proposals for re-opening and operating the city-owned nine hole golf course off of Black Mountain […]

Stephens County Attorney Brian Ranck said the oral argument phase of the Wilbros’ appeal case before the Office of State Administrative Hearings is complete. The hearing took place last Wednesday and concluded Wednesday afternoon after about three hours of arguments in front of Administrative Law Judge Ronit Walker. Ranck said the judge had a few questions on certain narrow issues, […]

A Stephens County house suffers extensive fire and smoke damage after a blaze last week. Three Stephens County volunteer fire departments were called to the fire at a home on Old Carnes Creek Road Thursday afternoon at 4:12 p.m. Carnes Creek Volunteer Fire Department Chief Jody Marcus said his department responded, as did New Hope and Tates Creek Volunteer Fire […]

A downtown bakery celebrates its new location. Thursday, the Toccoa-Stephens County Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting for Victoria’s Sweet Treats to celebrate its new location, which has been open now for a few months. Owner and Head Baker Tori Head said Victoria’s is a full-service bakery. “We cover everything, cookies, brownies, fried pies, custom cakes, wedding cakes, doughnuts […]

ARC of Stephens County held a Christmas party on Friday at the Family Life Center at Ebenezer Baptist Church. Robbie Nations is the President of ARC of Stephens County. She said that they hosted people from around the area on Friday. “Today, we are sponsoring a Christmas party for the Avita program and three more counties that are involved,” said […]

The Stephens County Sheriff’s Office will use a state grant to help with DUI education and enforcement. Recently, the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety awarded the Sheriff’s Office a grant of nearly $10,000. Stephens County Sheriff Randy Shirley says that part of the grant will allow his office to buy a golf cart, trailer, traffic cones, and DUI goggles. Shirley […]

A busy weekend of Christmas activities is set for downtown Toccoa this weekend. It starts tonight with Christmas Fest in downtown Toccoa. That runs from 5 to 8 p.m. Main Street Toccoa Events Coordinator Sharon Crosby said that there will be activities, entertainment, shopping, and more for people to enjoy. “We will have carriage rides, Santa’s express train, and a […]

The city of Toccoa is also announcing a series of street closures for activities this weekend in downtown. Pond Street from Tugalo Street to Foreacre Street and Sage Street from Tugalo to Foreacre Street will close from 4 to 9 p.m. tonight. Meanwhile, Doyle Street from Alexander Street to Troup’s parking lot will close from 4 to 9 p.m. as […]