Category: News

Main Street Toccoa and the Historic Ritz Theatre’s planned Back-to-School Bash is this Friday. According to Ritz Theatre General Manager Tami Mayhugh, on Friday, August 6, come to the Ritz for a bit of fun before school starts back. The event will run from 5 p.m. till 9 p.m. and features inflatable activities, ice-cream, and a movie, all free of […]

WNEG News has received confirmation from the Toccoa Police Department of multiple shootings in Stephens County. Toccoa Police Chief Jimmy Mize confirmed the shooting at Buddy’s Kwik Stop, at the corner of Currahee Street and Big A Road happened on Sunday just after noon. Mize says the Toccoa Police Department was alerted of a shots fired call at the Marathon […]

An accident in Stephens County Thursday night, fatally injured two Toccoa residents. According to the Georgia State Patrol the victims have been identified as 19-year-old Micah Kaden Ferreira and 20-year-old Andrew Billy Crunkelton. The GSP reports the accident happened just after 11 p.m. on Prather Bridge Road at Holly Creek Drive. GSP Post 7 Commander Donnie Sadler says a trooper […]

District 2 Public Health has released corrected data for Stephens County’s vaccinated population, after the Center for Disease Control and Prevention released inaccurate data. WNEG News reported on Wednesday, only 1,641 residents in Stephens County were fully vaccinated, as was stated on the CDC’s website; however, those numbers were inaccurate. According to District 2 Public Health Public Information Officer Natasha […]

The Toccoa-Stephens County Chamber of Commerce celebrated the grand opening of the newly renovated and redesigned CTAE Wing at Stephens County High School with a ribbon tying ceremony. Toccoa-Stephens County Chamber of Commerce President Julie Paysen says a Ribbon Tying Ceremony symbolizes a community surrounding a local business or organization in support of the services it provides. Stephens County School […]

Main Street Toccoa will continue its Ida Cox Music Series this weekend with a performance by The Simple Life and Victoria Burns. The Simple Life is the headlining act and will take the stage following a performance by opening act Victoria Burns at 7 p.m. The series is named for Ida Cox, who was born Ida Prather in Toccoa before […]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is encouraging people to wear masks to protect against the Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus as well as prevent possibly spreading it to others. If you are fully vaccinated, the CDC says you can participate in many of the activities that you did before the pandemic but wear a mask indoors […]

By MJ Kneiser, WLHR Traffic is flowing again on I-85 SB after a fatal wreck Wednesday morning involving a tractor trailer and a box truck. It happened just after 5:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, according to a preliminary report from the Georgia State Patrol Hartwell Post. The report states a tractor-trailer was broken down at mile marker 172 on 85 SB […]

A Stephens County Marshal had to step in, for the second time in recent months, in a heated land use public hearing, during the Stephens County Board of Commissioners meeting on Tuesday. Bernard Wood petitioned to have his properties rezoned from Residential Single Family to Agriculture Residential. Wood’s properties are located at 361 Currahee Ridge Road, Lot 16A Currahee Ridge […]

Today is the final installment of this year’s Summer Movie Series at the Historic Ritz Theatre. To close out the series, the Theatre will be screening Cats and Dogs 3: Paws Unite at 10 a.m. and at 7 p.m. Ritz Theatre General Manager Tami Mayhugh says tickets and concessions are just $1 each. At this time, the Theatre is only […]