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The Stephens County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a trio of men after a traffic stop led Officers on a chase. According to Stephens County Sheriff Randy Shirley, the incident occurred on Thursday, May 14, around 2:00 p.m. when a deputy attempted to stop a black Nissan Maxima for a traffic violation on Davis Avenue when the vehicle fled. Shirley says […]

Early voting for the Presidential Preference Primary and the General Election continues this week in Toccoa-Stephens County. According to Stephens County Registrar Eureka Gober early voting will run Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m., until Friday, June 5, at the Stephens County Registrar’s Office, inside the Stephens County Historical Courthouse. She adds that during the early voting […]

Stephens County is now at 107 cases of COVID-19, and the Department of Public Health is reporting two deaths in Stephens County. According to the Georgia Department of Public Health, Stephens County has had an increase of 16 confirmed cases of COVID-19 since Monday, May 11. Whereas in Habersham County, there has been an increase of 34 confirmed cases of […]

Early voting for the Presidential Preference Primary and the General Election begins today in Toccoa-Stephens County. According to Stephens County Registrar Eureka Gober early voting will run Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m., until Friday, June 5, at the Stephens County Registrar’s Office, inside the Stephens County Historical Courthouse. She adds that during the early voting period […]

Officials with Camp Mikell have announced that they will not hold the annual residential summer camp this summer, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. All summer programs at Camp Mikell have been canceled for summer 2020. In a statement released from Camp Mikell’s Executive Director Ken Struble, this decision was made after prayerful consideration of available safety guidelines from public health […]

Sad news from the WNEG family…Roy Gaines-The Founder of WNEG Radio and TV, former Toccoa Mayor, and father of WNEG’s Operation Manager and morning host Connie Gaines, passed away on Sunday night. A World War II Navy veteran, Gaines arrived in Toccoa in 1946 to work for R.G. LeTourneau and WRLC Radio. He and his brother then founded WNEG Radio […]

The Stephens County Board of Commissioners entered into an agreement with Quick Technologies for Information Technology Services. According to County Administrator the agreement will expire June 30, 2024. She says the county recommends Quick Technologies after having worked with this company for several years. “This is the current vendor that we have now, and this will be a three-year contract; […]

Governor Brian P. Kemp today announced that 301,874 COVID-19 tests have been completed and reported to the Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH). As the state continues to ramp up testing, the number of positive cases will continue to rise; however, with more than 300,000 tests reported to the state, the percent of positive cases in Georgia continues to decrease. […]

The Georgia Department of Public Health is now reporting 94 cases of COVID-19 in Toccoa-Stephens County. To date, Stephens County has had 1 death due to complications from COVID-19. Habersham County continues to be the county hit the hardest in our area with 402 positive cases of the virus and 15 fatalities due to complications from the virus. Locally, at […]

The Salvation Army Service Center has announced its plans to re-open its Family Store, located at 692 Big A Road. According to Salvation Army-Toccoa Service Center Director Rebecca Dixon, the Family Store will re-open on Monday, May 18 with a reduced schedule of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. each day. Dixon says customers are advised […]