Author: Charlie Bauder

A Stephens County grand jury has indicted the teen accused of killing his mother in September. The grand jury handed down a formal indictment against the teen on Monday. That indictment charges the teen with Malice Murder, Felony Murder, and Aggravated Assault in connection with the death of 46-year-old Kim Lanier on September 29. Authorities allege that the teen shot […]

Toccoa city staff present a proposal for putting the Pines golf course back under full city control as a department of city government. City commissioners met with Public Works Department staff at a work session on Monday to talk about the nine-hole golf course off of Black Mountain Road, which has remained closed since late August when the operator leasing […]

Toccoa City Commissioners make a number of appointments at their regularly scheduled meeting. City commissioners met Monday at Toccoa City Hall. During the meeting, the city commission unanimously re-appointed Bob Sneed to serve another two-year term as the city’s Municipal Court Judge. Sneed was initially appointed to the position in December 2012 and began serving as Toccoa Municipal Court Judge […]

Today is Veterans Day and multiple events in northeast Georgia will mark the occasion. In Stephens County, a ceremony will take place at 11 a.m. today on the lawn of the historic Stephens County Courthouse in downtown Toccoa. Again this year, the program is sponsored by the American Legion Post 104, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4346, and Marine Corps […]

Stephens County Commissioners will meet for a regularly scheduled meeting later this morning. County commissioners will meet at 8:30 a.m. today in the second-floor courtroom of the historic Stephens County Courthouse in downtown Toccoa for their meeting. The county commission will start its meeting with a work session to discuss items on the meeting agenda for today. Items on today’s […]

The Stephens County School System is commenting on an incident involving a cat at Stephens County High School. Stephens County School Superintendent Bryan Dorsey said he was notified of the incident happened earlier this week. “It was brought to my attention on Wednesday evening that at some point, there was a classroom conduction of a castration in our Animal Science […]

A group of young people from Stephens and Franklin counties is riding their way to success in the world of equestrian drill team. The Currahee Thunder Drill Team is made up of 11 children from Stephens and Franklin counties. It practices at the Currahee Saddle Club and recently, WNEG spent time with the team. Their head coach is Shelby Fricks […]

Toccoa City Commissioners have a regularly scheduled meeting later today. Commissioners will meet at 5 p.m. at Toccoa City Hall. During today’s meeting, city commissioners are scheduled to handle a number of appointments that the commission must make. City commissioners are also scheduled to receive the monthly financial report during today’s meeting. Meanwhile, city commissioners are scheduled to hold a […]

The Georgia Department of Transportation says it will be manually cleaning drainage structures this week alongside State Route 145 in Stephens County. It is one of a number of routine maintenance activities scheduled for northeast Georgia counties this week. DOT officials said that while the drainage structures are being cleaned along State Route 145 in Stephens County, the shoulder will […]