Category: News

The Stephens County Board of Commissioners will meet at 6 p.m. tomorrow for a regularly scheduled meeting. The meeting will take place at the Historic Courthouse, 37 West Tugalo Street in Toccoa. On the agenda for the meeting is Authorization for a grant application for the Georgia Department ofTransportation 2024 Supplemental Local Maintenance Improvement Grant, or LMIG, in the amount […]

US 9th District Congressman Andrew Clyde, in a letter penned to United States Postal Service Inspector General Tammy Hull, requested an audit and investigation into the “failed transition and consolidation from local processing and distribution centers across North Georgia to the postal services’ new consolidated Atlanta Ga. Processing and Distribution Center initiated earlier this year.”  Dated April 4, the letter […]

Three people have been arrested in the Gumlog area of Franklin County and charged with trafficking methamphetamine. According to Franklin County Steve Thomas, investigators believe the methamphetamine was intended for local distribution. “Deputies with the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office performed a traffic stop on a vehicle on Gumlog Grove Road for a minor traffic violation. During the traffic stop Deputies […]

As reported by our WNEG Sister Station WLHR, Franklin County has a new County Manager. At their meeting Monday night the Board of Commissioners voted to hire Interim County Manager Terry Harris. Harris has been the Interim County Manager since last August when former County Manager Derrick Turner resigned. At Monday’s meeting, Commissioner Josh Smith motioned to approve Harris’ contract. […]

Stephens County residents can now take advantage of the fact that Northeast Georgia Medical Center, or NGMC, has become the only hospital in Georgia and one of the few in the United States to offer a new, progressive form of cancer treatment known as histotripsy – a non-invasive treatment for liver cancer tumors.      Dr. Nelson Royall with Northeast Georgia Physicians […]

Agricultural producers in Stephens, Franklin and surrounding counties are now eligible for Farm Service Agency, or FSA, emergency loans, allowing producers to borrow up to 100 percent of actual production or physical losses incurred as a result of recent drought conditions, up to a maximum amount of $500,000.  According to the United States Department of Agriculture, or USDA, these loans […]

MJ Kneiser/WLHR News An Atlanta man is in the Franklin County Detention Center on multiple charges involving an alleged case of road rage. It happened on March 27 on I-85 Northbound. According to Sheriff Steve Thomas deputies responded to a 911 call regarding a vehicle that had been shot at while traveling on the Interstate. The driver said the bullet […]

As reported yesterday, a Hotel Feasibility Study, jointly funded by Toccoa and Stephens County, was recently completed, with the resulting report being presented to the Stephens County Development Authority and city and county officials last week.  The study was commissioned to update findings from a 2017 study, also jointly funded by the city and county. As pointed out in yesterday’s […]

Eligible households can now begin scheduling appointments for cooling help through the Ninth District Opportunity. The application period for Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Cooling Assistance, administered by the Georgia Department of Human Services’ (DHS) Division of Family & Children Services opened on April 1 to Georgians aged 65 years of age and older or those who are medically […]

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northeast Georgia, piedmont North Carolina, western North Carolina and upstate South Carolina. DAY ONE…Today and tonight. Scattered strong to severe thunderstorms are expected to move into the North Carolina mountains from east Tennessee this evening and move east across the remainder of the western Carolinas and northeast Georgia from late evening through the overnight […]