A Toccoa woman faces drug charges after a traffic stop in Eastanollee last week. According to Stephens County Sheriff Randy Shirley, deputies stopped a vehicle on Highway 17 south near Whispering Pines Road for an expired tag on January 31. During the stop, Shirley said deputies first discovered that the tag had been expired...
North Georgia Technical College announces its local Georgia Occupational Award for Leadership, or GOAL, winner. The winner, announced at the January 24 meeting of the Rotary Club of Habersham, is Dustin Bucher. He is a student in Turf and Golf Course Management nominated by Josh Jackson. Jackson said Bucher is an optimistic team player...
Officials said that the Georgia DOT is deferring the awarding of a bid for part of the Highway 17 widening and relocation project pending the completion of some additional paperwork. Monday, the state’s Department of Transportation announced that the bid award for the southern end of the Highway 17 project, which is from just...
Toccoa city officials are continuing to watch the gas fund closely as the budget year continues. Monday, gas rates and the budget were one of the topics discussed by Toccoa City Commissioners during a 4 ½ hour work session. During the work session, Toccoa City Commissioner Terry Carter asked City Manager Mike Jackson how...
Stephens County Sheriff Randy Shirley said he supports a resolution passed by the National Sheriffs’ Association on the topic of gun control. Shirley said he was in Washington, D.C. last week as the association presented the resolution. “Sheriffs strongly support our citizens’ protected rights to bear arms under the Second Amendment and the National...
By MJ Kneiser, WLHR Radio, Lavonia Bringing students and teachers into 21st Century education via social media and virtual learning is the goal of the Franklin County School Board. At the Franklin County Chamber and Rotary luncheon last Tuesday, School Superintendent Dr. Ruth Odell outlined the main objectives of the school board for the...
Toccoa Police Chief Tim Jarrell takes the oath of office as chief. The new chief, along with the rest of the Toccoa Police Department, took the oath as a unit Friday afternoon in the commission meeting room at Toccoa City Hall. Jarrell said he felt it was important that the whole department take the...
A recent training session for members of the Toccoa Police Department focuses on school safety. Back on January 26, the eight members of the police department’s Special Operations Response Team, or SORT Team, held a training session at Toccoa Elementary School. Toccoa Police Department Detective Shannon Westbrook heads up the SORT Team. He said...
By MJ Kneiser, WLHR Radio, Lavonia New Northern Judicial Circuit District Attorney Parks White said the office he inherited is filled with years of backlogged cases. White attended the Franklin County Board of Commissioners work session Tuesday to ask them for extra funding to supplement the salary of his new Chief Assistant District Attorney....
A Franklin County woman is the winner of a teaching award at North Georgia Technical College. Math Instructor Leslie McFarlin of Carnesville is North Georgia Tech’s winner of this year’s Rick Perkins Award for Excellence in Technical Education. Three other instructors were also nominated for this 2013 award including Chris Bladowski of Toccoa in...
