Category: News

The Toccoa City Commission will meet at 5 p.m. today for a regularly scheduled meeting. The meeting will take place at City Hall, 92 N. Alexander Street.  On the agenda is approval of the minutes from the March 11 City Commission meeting; included in the minutes is the city’s recap of the discussion regarding an agenda item consideration of the […]

Stephens County Elections Supervisor Bruce Carlisle reports that the state-mandated Risk Limiting Audit for elections with state or federal offices was conducted on Wednesday, March 20.   The Georgia Secretary of State’s office randomly selects the ballot batches to be audited by the actual rolling of the dice, which was done on Tuesday, March 19, at the State Capitol where the […]

Contributions by Georgia Recorder and Capitol Beat News Services Following five years of unsuccessful attempts by Georgia Republican lawmakers to expand the state’s school voucher program, Republican Senators on Wednesday cast enough votes to send the latest version of the controversial plan to Gov. Brian Kemp’s desk to be signed into law. On Wednesday, several Republican House Majority Caucus members […]

During the Stephens County Board of Education meeting on March 19, the board approved hiring Jennifer King as principal of Big A Elementary School. King will follow the leadership of Regina Bayles, who recently announced her retirement at the end of the 2023-2024 school year after 34 years of service. King has served the White County School System for 23 […]

BY: JENNIFER SHUTT, GEORGIA RECORDER WASHINGTON — Congressional staff were scrambling Wednesday to finalize sweeping legislation that would fund much of the federal government, but time was running short ahead of a Friday midnight deadline. Leaders of the House and Senate and the Biden administration announced Tuesday they’d reached consensus on the final six government funding bills for the fiscal […]

Georgia DOT – Northeast  ·  Traffic Advisory Franklin County Daytime Single Lane Closure I-85 NB from exit 160 to 164 March 21 & March 22 Pittman Construction Company will be performing maintenance causing single lane closures from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday and Friday weather permitting Maintenance work will be done with moving lane closures Please reduce speed while driving […]

A Lee Arrendale State Prison employee was arrested Wednesday, March 13, and charged with allegedly providing prohibited items to inmates at the facility near Alto. Officer Katlyn Rochell Harwell, 26, of Martin was arrested on five criminal warrants signed by Mountain Judicial Circuit Superior Court Judge B. Chan Caudell. The first warrant charges Harwell with violation of oath of office, […]

On Saturday, William Kyle Griffin, 34, of Toccoa, was arrested by members of the Stephens County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigation Division, or CID, following an investigation into a March 6 burglary. During the execution of a search warrant for Griffin’s residence prior to his arrest, several long guns and other miscellaneous items reported missing in the burglary were recovered.  According […]

Jeremy Spradlin of Toccoa was recently inducted into the The North Georgia Technical College (NGTC) Foundation Board of Trustees. Also inducted were Sidney Roland III of Clarkesville, Mark Henson of Blue Ridge, and Erik Brinke of Murphy, N.C. Spradlin graduated from Toccoa Falls College with a bachelor’s degree in organizational leadership and began his career with Georgia Power Company (GPC) […]

Yesterday morning, March 18, a two-vehicle collision involving a motorcycle and a Jeep Wrangler resulted in the death of the motorcyclist on US Highway 441 at Hollywood Hills Road.  Habersham County E-911 received the call reporting the wreck just before 10:30 a.m. Habersham County Emergency Services Engine 9, Med 9, Engine 14, Captain 1 and Battalion 1, along with multiple […]