Toccoa City Commissioners are expected to take a final vote on the city’s Fiscal Year 2014 budget at their meeting Monday (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 Authorities are asking for the public’s help to locate an escaped prisoner from the Franklin County Detention Center. Franklin County Sheriff Stevie Thomas said Kiebron Brock went over the detention center wall about 11 a.m. Friday morning. Brock is described as a light-skinned black male, age 20, 6 feet...
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...
The Stephens County School System honors its retiring employees. The system held a reception Thursday at Stephens County High School for this year’s retirees. Stephens County School Superintendent Sherrie Whiten said they are just a fantastic group of individuals. “We hate to see them go,” said Whiten. “One thing they all talked about was...
Stephens County will gather tonight to join in the fight against cancer. The 20th annual Stephens County Relay for Life takes place tonight in downtown Toccoa. Local Relay Co-Chair Jerry Snell said organizers are excited to bring the annual event into downtown Toccoa for the first time. “Other communities have done that and it...
A local service club celebrates a milestone. Earlier this month, the Toccoa Lions Club celebrated its 80th anniversary. A banquet was held to mark the occasion at the Gate Cottage on the campus of Toccoa Falls College. Toccoa Lions Club Vice President Bryan Gordon noted the representation at the banquet of various Lions clubs...
By MJ Kneiser, WLHR Radio, Lavonia A piece of the steel from the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001 will be in Hartwell on Saturday. It’s part of a fundraiser to help build handicap-accessible smart homes for soldiers injured in Iraq and Afghanistan. The fundraiser is the idea of Corporal Todd Love...
A new group of students will be able to call themselves graduates of Toccoa Falls College this weekend. Commencement for Toccoa Falls College is scheduled for Saturday beginning at 10:30 a.m. in the Grace Chapel and Performing Arts Center. The school says this year’s commencement speaker is the Rev. David Pound. He is the...
Area health officials are reporting that they have seen seven recently reported cases of E. coli in the Stephens County area. District Two Public Health Spokesman Dave Palmer said that the cases have all appeared in the past couple of weeks. “At this time, we know that it is the most common type of...
