Author: Charlie Bauder

Grant money is headed to Toccoa to help start a community orchard. Keep Toccoa-Stephens County Beautiful said that it has received a $1,500 grant from the Keep Georgia Beautiful Foundation’s Community Orchard Project. The grant is to plant an orchard in the city. Keep Toccoa-Stephens County Beautiful Executive Director Linda Scofield said the grant will plant five or six trees […]

Toccoa is preparing for the annual downtown Halloween Costume Parade. This year’s Halloween Costume Parade is Friday morning and it marks the 24th year that the Toccoa Main Street program is hosting the parade. Preschool age children between the ages of two and five are invited to attend and Main Street Toccoa says that area pre-schools will also participate. Main […]

Stephens County Commissioners will hold a regularly scheduled meeting later today. County commissioners are scheduled to meet at 5:30 p.m. in the second-floor courtroom of the historic Stephens County Courthouse in downtown Toccoa. The county commission will begin its meeting with a work session to discuss items that are on the agenda for today’s meeting. Items on the agenda for […]

Toccoa City Commissioners and Stephens County Commissioners are scheduled to get together for a joint city-county meeting this morning. That meeting is scheduled to start at 8:30 a.m. at Toccoa City Hall. Among the items on the agenda is discussion of inmate housing agreement. At their meeting earlier this month while discussing an issue related to the probation department agreement […]

North Georgia Technical College hands out its annual alumni awards. The school did so at its annual Homecoming events earlier this month. First, Clarkesville resident and retired North Georgia Technical College President Jim Marlowe was officially inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame by former President Dr. Judy Hulsey. The Hall of Fame Award is bestowed on a deserving alumnus […]

Toccoa City Commissioners have a busy day in store later today. First, city commissioners will meet for a work session at 4 p.m. at Toccoa City Hall. During the work session, the city commission is scheduled to continue discussions of the city’s LMIG roadway project. LMIG stands for Local Maintenance and Improvement Grant and is state money that can be […]

Unemployment drops in Stephens County in September. The Georgia Department of Labor released preliminary September unemployment figures last week. Those figures show a 6.7 percent preliminary unemployment rate for Stephens County last month. That is down from both August’s revised unemployment rate of 7.7 percent and September 2013’s revised unemployment rate of 7.5 percent. The total September labor force in […]

With the holiday season inching closer, the Toys for Tots program is again gearing up in northeast Georgia. “Toys for Tots” is a program of the Marine Corps and Marine Corps Reserve that collects and distributes toys to children and families in need each holiday season. Don Alexander is the Toys for Tots Coordinator for Stephens, Franklin, and Hart counties. […]

If weather permits, concrete pouring is expected to continue today for the new northbound State Route 17 bridge at the Stephens-Franklin County line. Last week, the Georgia DOT said it would pour concrete for the bridge starting last Friday and continuing today. DOT Spokesperson Teri Pope said pouring the concrete starts to tie all of the pieces of the bridge […]