Category: News

If you you need help to pay your heating bill this year, there is still money left. Every year the federal government allocates funds to help low-income families pay their winter electric bills.  That money is distributed to 13 counties in North Georgia through Ninth District Opportunity in Gainesville. Paula Duley is Ninth District Representative for Stephens County. Duley says there is […]

While the federal income tax-filing deadline has passed for most people, there are some taxpayers still facing tax-related issues. This includes people who still haven’t filed. This year, the IRS provided taxpayers an additional day to file and pay their taxes following system issues that surfaced early on the April 17 tax deadline. Anyone who did not file and owes […]

Main Street Toccoa has once again been re-certified as a Georgia Exceptional Main Street (GEMS) community for 2018. The Main Street Program is a downtown economic development program run by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. In the State of Georgia, it is overseen by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs Office of Downtown Development. To be certified as an […]

Georgia sets record numbers in March. State Labor Commissioner Mark Butler said late last week that Georgia continued to set records in March even as the number of jobs dipped slightly. Butler noted that most of the March news was good: unemployment held steady, the labor force and number of Georgians with jobs set records and unemployment claims were down. […]

The two candidates, vying for the lone contested seat of the Stephens County Board of Education, during the Political Forum, last week, demonstrated a strong urgency in their desire to lead. Candidates Joel Blackwell and Kay Reed were both motivated to run for election because of a child enrolled in the Stephens County School System. Both candidates were asked to […]

America is fighting an opioid crisis that has exploded into a public-health emergency. Stephens County Hospital’s Marketing Director Samantha Rickman told WNEG News Monday about the initiative the Stephens County Hospital staff have taken to fighting our local opioid crisis. In an attempt, to prescribe patients with fewer narcotics, the hospital has created a non-narcotic pain control option following Knee […]

One arrested after filing false police report. On April 18, investigators from the Stephens County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call of a robbery in the parking lot of Buck’s Superette. Pamela Ann Cheek, of Toccoa, had reported that a male subject had jumped into her vehicle where she was parked outside of Buck’s Superette, grabbed her prescription bottle of […]

During last week’s Political Forum, Moderator Dawn Jameson, asked the qualifying candidates for Post 4 of the Stephens County Board of Commissioners, if they were in support of County Zoning Regulations. James Addison was the first to respond. “I worked on the committee that developed the current zoning regulations, and it took 18 months of hearing people complain, people argue, […]

The Historic Ritz Theatre at The Schaefer Center is looking for a few good friends, to make up its new organization dedicated to raising funds for additional programming and building enhancements for the historic theatre. The Friends of the Ritz will hold its initial meeting this evening at 5 p.m. at the Ritz Theatre. The purpose of this meeting is […]

A Toccoa man is behind bars facing multiple drug and other charges after Sheriff’s investigators raided his home last week. It happened Thursday, April 19th. Stephens County Sheriff Randy Shirley tells WNEG Radio deputies, investigators, and state probation officers executed a search warrant at 120 Mary Glenn Road in Toccoa. During the search, Shirley said investigators discovered diverse amounts of […]