Category: News

Another credit coming for Georgia Power customers. This month, Georgia Power customers will receive the third $25 credit for the Vogtle nuclear expansion. A total of $75 in 2018 bill credits, or $188 million overall, were approved by the Georgia Public Service Commission as part of its 2017 order to continue construction of Vogtle 3 & 4. Customers also received […]

Leadership in Toccoa-Stephens County is invited to a public planning meeting this week with the Stephens County Health Department and District Two Public Health. The meeting takes place Wednesday morning at 9a at the Historic County Courthouse and is in advance of a Health Department drive-through flu clinic coming up later this month. District Two Public Health spokesperson Dave Palmer […]

A Toccoa man is in custody after driving 39-mph over the posted speed limit. Toccoa Police Chief Jimmy Mize told WNEG News about the recent incident. According to Mize, on the evening of September 5, officers spotted a black Ford truck traveling at 84 mph in a 45 mph zone. Officers then performed a traffic stop and identified the driver […]

State Senator John Wilkinson has been appointed by Lt. Governor Casey Cagle to serve on the Senate Study Committee on Continual Audit Exceptions on Local School Systems and on the Senate Study Committee on Evaluating the School Year Calendar of Georgia Public Schools. “I am honored to serve on these study committees and look forward to carefully considering a variety […]

A year-long undercover drug investigation by the Appalachian Drug Enforcement Office slams the door on a criminal organization responsible for trafficking more than 150 kilograms of methamphetamine in North Georgia and parts of North Carolina. According to ARDEO spokesman Mitchell Posey, on Wednesday, September 5th, 2018, multiple law enforcement agencies swarmed on suspected methamphetamine traffickers in North Carolina and Georgia, […]

Georgia’s dove hunting season opens this Saturday, Sept. 1 and runs through the 16th. Opportunities to hunt dove will also be available this year in October from the 13th through the 31st and again in November from the 22nd through January 15th. More than 50 public dove fields, including opportunities on private land will be made available to the public […]

Toccoa Falls College is off to an exciting year. Tracy Wiegman is the director of marketing and communications for Toccoa Falls College. She recently told WNEG News that TFC has, for the third consecutive year, broken past records for new student enrollment. According to Wiegman this year’s total student enrollment is 1,642 up 220 over last year at this time. […]