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The Stephens County Board of Education will meet tonight at 5 p.m. for the first public hearing on the Fiscal Year 2025 School System Budget. The Public Hearing will be held at the Stephens County School District Office, 191 Big A School Road. WNEG News, at last week’s Board of Education work session, requested a copy of the proposed budget, […]
Read moreOn Friday, the final day of advanced-in-person voting for the May 21 election, 405 voters cast their ballot at the Historic Courthouse in downtown Toccoa, bringing the total of advance-in-person votes to 3,000. A total of 309 Absentee Ballots have been requested and mailed out, and so far, 258 have been filled out and returned. Absentee ballots can be returned […]
Read moreThe First Public Hearing for the Toccoa FY 2025 Budget will be held tomorrow at a 5 p.m. meeting. The Toccoa City Commission will meet twice Tomorrow, May 21. The first meeting will be a work session at 3 p.m., with a regular scheduled meeting following at 5 p.m. Both meetings will take place at City Hall, 92 N. Alexander […]
Read moreFormer Stephens County High School student and standout athlete Dacen Cash has been tapped to fill the head coach position being left vacant by the recent retirement of coach Greg McCall from the position of head baseball coach. McCall, who will continue as a SCHS science teacher and assistant football coach, served as Indians’ head baseball coach for 11 years […]
Read moreEarlier this week, WNEG News contacted all three candidates for Stephens County Sheriff, inviting them to answer a series of questions regarding their platform, and their plans, if elected. Today, throughout the day’s news broadcasts, we will be airing responses from the candidates who responded. Both candidates who responded were asked the same set of questions. Answers are presented by […]
Read moreOn Monday, May 13, Jesse James Patterson, 45, entered guilty pleas on two charges stemming from the 2019 armed robbery and violent assault on a local business owner. On the afternoon of January 14, 2019, the Stephens County Sheriff’s office received a 911 Dispatch call at approximately 3:30 pm Friday afternoon regarding an armed robbery that had occurred at Means […]
Read moreAs previously reported by WNEG News, Roger Laquarius Neal, 34, of Toccoa, was arrested earlier this month by Habersham County Deputies and booked into the Habersham County Jail on multiple drug and gang-related felony charges. In the earlier WNEG article, multiple previous arrests of Neal were noted, with the majority of those also being for drug and gang-related crimes. In […]
Read moreThe Stephens County Indians football team will conclude 2 weeks of spring practice with a scrimmage game tonight at North Hall High School. Game time will be 7 o’clock tonight, and admission will be $5. Spring practice allows the players to get some practice in full pads. Indian Head Coach Wesley Tankersley says the team has worked hard: Tonight’s scrimmage […]
Read moreAfter being twice delayed, this year’s Toast of Toccoa is scheduled for this Saturday, and WNEG News sat down with Toccoa Special Events Coordinator Misty Richardson to find out a little bit more about the event. Richardson said she was keeping an eye on the weather forecast She talked a little bit about what people can expect when they attend […]
Read moreThe 2024 Stephens County Senior Parade will take place this Saturday, May 18. The parade will begin at 1 p.m. at First Baptist Church, 475 E. Tugalo Street, and will proceed down Big A Road toward the High School. All participants must have completed a registration form by May 14 to be allowed to participate in the parade, and any […]
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