Author: Ethan Jordan

Governor Nathan Deal will be in Franklin County today. The governor will be in Carnesville at Franklin County Middle School for the Franklin County School System’s first REACH Georgia signing ceremony. REACH stands for Realizing Education Achievement Can Happen. REACH Georgia is the State’s first needs-based mentorship and college scholarship program. According to their Web site, the REACH Georgia scholarship […]

As Toccoa prepares for this weekend’s Currahee Military Weekend, another of the Band of Brothers has left us. Donald Malarkey,  who parachuted into  Normandy on D-Day and fought with Easy Company across Europe, died Saturday, September 30th in Salem, Oregon. He was 96. According to his son-in-law, John Hill, Malarkey died of natural causes. Malarkey was one of several members […]

This has been a bad summer for incidents of rabies in our area and now District Two Public Health is warning people to be careful of certain wild animals that could be carriers. According to District Two Public Health spokesman Dave Palmer, residents should take precautions to protect themselves, their children and pets from this deadly disease. In Stephens County, […]

The local Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4346 will be hosting a pancake breakfast Saturday morning beginning at 7:30 a.m. The post is located at 270 W. Savannah Street, in Toccoa. VFW Post Cmdr Ron Rider told WNEG News that the breakfast is open to everyone. Following the breakfast, at 1 p.m. the Veterans’ Parade will begin on Doyle Street. […]

Georgia State Patrol believe an accident that occurred Monday night, involving a pedestrian being struck by a vehicle, is a suicide. The victim, a white male, remains unidentified as GSP wait for identification results from the crime lab to be returned. The man was struck by a 2015 Volvo tractor trailer driven by Keith Inman, of Rockingham, North Carolina, officials […]

Georgia’s high school graduation rates continue to improve year after year. For Stephens County High School, they surpassed the state average, with 84.6 percent, 4 percent higher than the state average. Stephens County High School’s Principal Scott Kersh told WNEG News that the is proud of his students’ achievements; though, he believes they can continue to improve. The state’s percentage […]

This month’s Veterans’ Coffee event will feature special guest Vince Speranza, 501st Airborne machine gunner who fought in the Battle of the Bulge. The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. This event will be held in the Mitchell Allen Room of the Curahee Military Museum, and is […]

The North Georgia Technical College’s Clarkesville campus opened two new state-of-the-art, high efficiency greenhouses to horticulture students this semester. According to NGTC Horticulture Instructor Craig Thurmond, these new greenhouses premier as the nicest greenhouses in the state and provide a bigger space for students to grow more varieties of plants and vegetables. Thurmond explained that these greenhouses provide both space […]