Author: Connie Gaines

Toccoa’s City Commission keeps the millage rate the same for 2015. At Monday night’s Toccoa City Commission meeting commissioners approved the proposal to keep the millage rate the same as the last three years at a rate of 6 mills. Toccoa City Manager Billy Morse explains; “Taylor Business Systems, the software provider for property taxes, has scheduled our taxes to […]

The City of Toccoa and Toccoa City Commissioners celebrated a high ISO (International Organization for Standardization) rating at their meeting on Monday evening. Toccoa City Manager Billy Morse announced the accomplishment. “Very little is accomplished in life without good teamwork and I think that we have had that in our community in many ways.” Morse Said; “In this case the […]

At Tuesday’s Stephens County Commission Meeting Commission Chair Dennis Bell awarded plaques to fireman Michael Kloss, and Stephens County Sheriff’s Deputies Connie Morris, and Bruce Cleveland, for service above the call of duty. The three played huge roles in the saving of lives of a mother and baby that were trapped in a car on fire after an accident on […]

The Stephens County Board of Commissioners approved a motion to implement a single stream recycling program at all of the county’s convenience sites at their meeting on Tuesday morning. The plan is to hopefully begin by the end of this month collecting recyclables and then transferring all to Athens Recycling. Stephens County Commissioner Dean Scarborough says this new set-up should […]

The new school year in Stephens County begins this Friday. One of the concerns for administrators in the Stephens County School System is traffic congestion on the first day. Stephens County School Superintendent Bryan Dorsey says even though it is the first day of school, parents are urged to start their routine right off the bat. “Obviously that first day, […]

The Stephens County Sheriff’s Office has recovered a stolen vehicle taken from Oconee County, South Carolina. Last Thursday, August 6TH, at 10:50 P.M. while on routine patrol, Sheriff’s Deputies observed a Grey 1985 Dodge Truck driving erratically and crossing both centerlines on Highway 123 East toward South Carolina. Deputies attempted to pull over the vehicle. According to reports, the vehicle […]

A Franklin County family farm is one of four finalists in a statewide Georgia Young Farmer Farm Family competition. In March, the Eric and Amy Segars family farm was selected as one of four State Georgia Young Farmer Farm Family finalists and judging for the competition continued this summer. The Segars’ farm was selected as the Franklin County Young Farmers […]

More details are in from the Georgia State Patrol on a head-on crash involving a church bus from Love and Hugs Christian Tabernacle in Conyers and a Lincoln Town Car that left 19 people injured. Troopers say around 8:30 p.m. Thursday night, a Lincoln Town Car was traveling south on West Currahee Street (U.S. Hwy. 123) near the former Smokin’ […]

At last Monday’s Toccoa City Commission meeting representatives of KCI Engineering gave Toccoa City Commissioners a progress update on a prospective sidewalk that would be added from the Rose Lane/Fernside Drive area to Wal-Mart. Toccoa City Commissioners has received a permit from the Georgia Department of Transportation or GDOT for the project. The project is estimated to cost approximately $300,000, […]