Author: Charlie Bauder

By MJ Kneiser, WLHR Radio, Lavonia St. Mary’s Health Care System, Inc., announced today that it has signed a Letter of Intent to acquire Ty Cobb Regional Medical Center in Lavonia, Ga., from Ty Cobb Healthcare System, Inc. Terms of the proposed purchase are confidential and several regulatory agencies must approve the transaction before it is finalized. St. Mary’s President […]

A Toccoa store sells a million dollar ticket. R K Foods, located at 1194 W. Currahee St. in Toccoa, sold a winning Powerball Quik Pik ticket that matched the first five winning numbers from the January 28 drawing. The winner was Walter Vaughn of Demorest. He claimed his prize February 12 at the Georgia Lottery District Office in Duluth. Since […]

A winter storm warning is over, but a winter weather advisory remains in effect for Stephens County through 10 a.m. today. Precipitation has moved out of the area, but the National Weather Service office in Greenville-Spartanburg said there are concerns over black ice and refreezing of roadways until temperatures begin rising later this morning. Snow began falling late Wednesday afternoon, […]

The city of Toccoa is getting ready to get improvements started at Henderson Falls Park. On Monday, city commissioners unanimously approved a project resolution for the planned improvements. Toccoa City Manager Billy Morse said the city would like to get started on a couple of different areas as soon as possible. One of those is lighting that will be put […]

Stephens County Commissioners are considering an ordinance to deal with certain types of telecommunications towers. The ordinance is called a Personal Wireless Service Facility ordinance and county commissioners held a first reading on the proposed ordinance at their meeting on Tuesday. Stephens County Attorney Brian Ranck said the proposed ordinance would apply to various types of telecommunications towers. “It governs […]

Stephens County faces a winter storm warning later today as the potential is there for a major snow storm. The winter storm warning is set to take effect for the region at 4 p.m. today and last through 7 a.m. Thursday. National Weather Service Meteorologist Danny Gant said that precipitation is expected to start as rain later this morning or […]

Meanwhile, road crews with the Georgia Department of Transportation are getting ready for the winter weather. Georgia DOT Spokesperson Teri Pope said that crews are out scouting the roads and getting ready. She said more crews will be called in as soon as precipitation starts. “Our priorities are to work on interstates and multi-lane state routes first,” said Pope. “Then, […]

Stephens County takes another step towards issuing bonds to forward fund road projects in the county that would be paid back with SPLOST money. Tuesday, county commissioners unanimously approved two motions. One motion was to engage Jim Monacell to serve as the county’s bond counsel and the other motion to was engage a firm called Merchant Capital to serve as […]

A new court date is set in the civil suit filed by Stephens County Commissioners and others against Wilbros over the odor controversy surrounding the Rose Lane facility. Judge Robert Adamson has ordered both sides back in to court for a hearing on March 20 at 9:30 a.m. in the Stephens County Government Building in downtown Toccoa. Stephens County Attorney […]