Author: Ethan Jordan

The Stephens County Board of Commissioners recently appointed a legislative voting delegate for the 2022 Legislative Leadership Conference. During the Commissioners’ regular scheduled meeting last week, County Administrator Phyllis Ayers explained that the board would need to appoint a delegate from the board to attend the Legislative Leadership Conference. Chairman James Addison was selected as the voting delegate. A motion […]

Stephens County Election Supervisor Krista Terry has announced that August 22, 2022, is the first day registered voters can submit an absentee ballot application for the November election. She says state law allows Election Offices to start accepting absentee ballot applications 78 days prior to an election. Again, anyone wishing to vote by absentee ballot for the upcoming November election […]

There is a new radio station on the air serving the northeast Georgia counties of Franklin, Hart and Madison with secondary service to adjacent areas in Northeast Georgia and Upstate South Carolina. The call sign is WEGG and the frequency of the Class A FM station is 95.3. Lake Hartwell Radio, Inc. a subsidiary of Georgia-Carolina Radiocasting, owns WEGG along with […]

Several suspects from the Northeast Georgia area are in custody after a lengthy investigation by the GBI’s Appalachian Regional Drug Enforcement office. According to Special Agent in Charge Trent Hillsman, on Thursday, July 21, 2022, several arrests were made during the execution of search warrants and traffic stops across North Georgia related to a three-month investigation known as Operation A […]

Stephens County Development Authority President and Chief Executive Officer Brittany Ivey has distributed a report recently presented to the Join Development Authority of Franklin, Hart and Stephens counties meeting in July. The report came from the Georgia Department of Labor, and compared employment wage, labor force, and industry employment distribution data between Stephens, Hart, and Franklin counties. Ivey tells WNEG […]

Toccoa Police Chief Jimmy Mize is reminding motorists to use extra care today as students and school buses will be out in force throughout Toccoa-Stephens County. “We urge everybody to slow down. Most everyone here in Toccoa-Stephens County know school is starting back and knows that the buses will be running. So, we’re urging everybody to slow down and take […]

Governor Brian Kemp is set to make a campaign stop in Toccoa later this week. On Thursday, August 4, at 10:00 a.m. Governor Kemp will be at Currahee Station, located at 770 Big A Road, in Toccoa. This stop is a meet and greet and will give residents of Toccoa-Stephens County an opportunity to meet Governor Kemp and to ask […]

If you’re looking for a way to help give back as well as help those in need, a local ministry needs people to help them make Christmas ornaments. Love Him Love Them, a local ministry in Haiti, is looking for people who would like to help them make Christmas ornaments, according to ministry founder Linda Gunter. “This year for the […]

The Stephens County Board of Commissioners amended a contract with the Toccoa-Stephens County Chamber of Commerce during its regular scheduled meeting last week. The contract was for how hotel/motel tax revenue is distributed between the county and the Chamber of Commerce. County Administrator Phyllis Ayers says over the years the county has gradually increased the percentage of hotel/motel tax revenue […]