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Main Street Toccoa’s Christmas Fest is slated to begin tonight, to kick-off the Christmas season. Both tonight and tomorrow will provide the public with several opportunities to take-in the festivities of the holiday season. The 8th annual event includes carolers, open shops and restaurants, Santa, a live nativity, the lighting of the city’s Christmas tree on the courthouse lawn on […]

The final Holiday traffic count for the Thanksgiving travel period is in. The Georgia Department of Public Safety released earlier this week the total number of traffic crashes across Georgia during the holiday travel period which resulted in 12 traffic deaths. This year, the holiday travel period was 102 hours long, beginning at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 22, and […]

During the recent Stephens County Board of Commissioners regular scheduled meeting and work session, the board of commissioners voted and approved moving forward with the occupation tax ordinance; however, the vote was not unanimous with Commissioner Stanley London voting in opposition of the ordinance. The occupation tax rate schedule would take the gross income of a business and create a […]

Hart County Sheriff Mike Cleveland on Thursday released the name of the man found dead in Lake Hartwell Tuesday afternoon. “The drowning victim found on Nov. 27 has been identified as Alex Dunne, 23, of Athens,” Cleveland said Thursday. A fisherman reported what appeared to be a body floating in the Powerbag area of Lake Hartwell off Old 29 mid-afternoon […]

During the recent Stephens County Board of Commissioners meeting, Tuesday night, the commissioners held a final public hearing for a land rezoning and conditional use request. Both requests were presented before the commission by Chad Singleton, regarding two parcels of land located off of Hwy 145, at Ridgeland Road. Singleton requested that the commission consider rezoning both parcels from agriculture […]

The Hart County Sheriff’s Office and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are attempting to identify a body recovered from Lake Hartwell Tuesday afternoon. The body is a relatively young male, but had no ID on him, according to Hart County Sheriff Mike Cleveland. “Yesterday around three or four o’clock we got a call,” Cleveland told WLHR Radio. “A fisherman had […]

By Mark Berryman, WLHR Radio, Lavonia A Martin man is behind bars in Franklin County, charged as part of a theft ring that preyed on Carry-On Trailers in Lavonia. So far, three of four suspects have been arrested, including a supervisor with the company, according to Lavonia Police Chief Bruce Carlisle. Carlisle said the department began investigating the case about […]

You may be planning to go this weekend to purchase a real tree for Christmas, but you might find some vendors out Fraser firs. According to the National Christmas Tree Association, Fraser Fir tree supplies are down this year. Ruth Cantrell and her family own Holly Hill Tree Farm in Dahlonega. Cantrell says they sold out of the popular Christmas […]