Author: Jessica Waters

In a press release issued yesterday afternoon, June 19, The Stephens County School System announced its intentions to increase the 2024 property taxes it will levy this year by 4.87 percent over the rollback millage rate. The rollback rate is 14.074 mils; the school system is proposing to leave the millage rate unchanged from the current-year millage rate of 14.76 […]

In a press release issued yesterday afternoon, June 19, The Stephens County School System confirmed that the Stephens County Board of Education, at the Tuesday, June 18 meeting, adopted the tentative FY2025 budget as presented, unchanged from the proposed budget that was presented last month. As previously reported by WNEG News, the school district’s $51.5 Million FY2025 budget is $3,670,910, […]

The 2024 Summer Movies Series continues today, June 20, at the Historic Ritz Theatre with Hotel Transylvania: Transformania. The first showing was at 10 a.m. There will be a second showing at 7 p.m. The  annual Summer Movie Series features family-friendly movies at the Historic Ritz Theatre, located at 139 Doyle Street in downtown Toccoa, every Thursday in June and […]

Today, June 19, is Federally, and locally, recognized as Juneteenth, a holiday that commemorates the day when Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas in 1865 with 2,000 Union troops to proclaim that more than 250,000 enslaved Black people in the state were free – two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation […]

Renee Petenbrink of Toccoa was one of four North Georgia Technical College students to bring home top awards from a recent Future Business Leaders of America conference.  Students at North Georgia Technical College, or NGTC, brought home the Platinum Chapter Award of Merit and other top awards from the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) State Leadership Conference recently held […]

Stephens County residents have chosen Republican candidate Craig Oglesby as the party’s choice of candidates for Post 3 on the Stephens County Board of Commissioners. In the Republican Primary Runoff for the Post 3 Board seat, a total of 1,287 registered voters cast their vote, totaling a 6.31 percent turnout in the contest between candidate Oglesby and candidate James Addison. […]

During the regularly-scheduled meeting of the Stephens County Humane Shelter Board yesterday, June 18, Board members unanimously approved the waiving of adoption fees on adult dogs during the month of July. Only dogs that have been at the shelter for 30 or more days will have adoption fees waived. The action was taken to help relieve the overpopulation of dogs […]

Reporting from the Stephen County Elections Office in the Historic Courthouse, we have total voting results in the Republican Primary Runoff for Stephens County Commissioner Post 3. These include advance in person voting, absentee ballots, and election day voting. There are   0   provisional ballots that will be reviewed before election results are certified. All election results are unofficial […]

Reporting from the Stephen County Elections Office in the Historic Courthouse, we have Advance In Person voting results in the Republican Primary Runoff for Stephens County Commissioner Post 3. These are Advance In Person votes ONLY. Candidate James Addison received    228   votes out of a total    692   advance in person ballots cast in the race. Candidate […]

Reporting from the Stephen County Elections Office in the Historic Courthouse, we have Election Day voting results in the Republican Primary Runoff for Stephens County Commissioner Post 3. These are election day votes ONLY. Candidate James Addison received  101 votes out of a total  400 election day ballots cast in the race. Candidate Craig Oglesby received 299 votes out of […]