Category: News

The Stephens County’s therapeutic pool will open Monday, January 7. That’s according to Stephens County Administrator Phyllis Ayers. Ayers adds that the Toccoa-Stephens County Chamber of Commerce will be holding a ribbon cutting ceremony at the therapeutic pool on Monday at 10 a.m. The public is invited to attend the ceremony. Stephens County Recreation Department Program Director Cheryl Stinnett told […]

A traffic-stop ends with a Toccoa teen arrested. According to Toccoa Police Chief Jimmy Mize, an officer made a traffic stop, the night of December 31, after they witnessed a vehicle make an improper turn off of Tugalo Street onto Falls Road. As the officer approached the vehicle, he could smell the odor of marijuana coming from inside the stopped […]

Stephens County Sheriff Randy Shirley is thanking members of the community who offered their support to emergency and law enforcement personnel Monday and Tuesday as they searched for the driver of a pick up that plunged into Lake Hartwell. “It really makes you feel good to live in a community like Stephens County,” he said Wednesday. “They rally around you. […]

The citizens of Stephens County banded together, yet again, to ensure the youth of Stephens and surrounding counties had gifts on Christmas day. That’s according to Local “Toys for Tots” Coordinator Don Alexander. Alexander told WNEG News that the 2018 Marine “Toys for Tots” campaign was able to provide 1,360 children with toys for Christmas. Alexander added that the support […]

Main Street Toccoa will unveil the fifth Historic Plaque of the 2018-2019 series, later today. According to Main Street Manager Christian Hamilton, the fifth historic plaque is dedicated to the downtown building, located at 114 and 118 North Sage Street, and currently houses Angel Oak Home and Russell’s Tax Service. The ceremony is slated to begin at 5 p.m. 114 […]

2019 is bringing with it some new and amended laws that went into effect on January 1st. Locally, the Town of Martin has changes in its charter that are now law. House Bill 1011, which was sponsored by State Representatives Dan Gasaway and Alan Powell and passed in both the House and Senate on May 8th changes the provisions related […]

A Toccoa resident has been appointed to serve on a State board. Bruce Carlisle is the Chief of Police in Lavonia, but lives here in Toccoa. According to a report in the Franklin County Citizen, Carlisle was recently appointed by Governor Nathan Deal to the State’s Board of Public Safety. Working under the Georgia Department of Public Safety, the Board […]

Lake Hartwell is beginning the new year almost two feet above full pool and some five feet over the winter draw down level of 656 ft above mean sea level. All the rain we’ve had the past two months has Corps of Engineers water managers scrambling to keep the lake from overflowing its reserve. Savannah District Corps Spokesman Jeremy Buddemeier […]

Authorities have released the name of the driver of a pick-up truck that drove off the  Broken Bridges in Stephens County and plunged into Lake Hartwell on New Year’s Eve. Tuesday evening, Stephens County Sheriff Randy Shirley identified the driver as 49-year old William Norton of Royston. Shirley said Norton was often seen at Stephens County park. “A retired deputy […]