Clarification
AM 630 WNEG has a clarification to make. Last week, we reported that Emily Mote from Stephens County High School signed to play basketball at Brenau University. Mote has actually signed to play both softball and basketball.
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AM 630 WNEG has a clarification to make. Last week, we reported that Emily Mote from Stephens County High School signed to play basketball at Brenau University. Mote has actually signed to play both softball and basketball.
Read moreAuthorities said one person is dead and two others were air lifted with injuries after a three-car accident in Stephens County Tuesday. It happened Tuesday morning on Georgia Highway 106 near Law House Road. Georgia State Patrol Toccoa Post Commander Sergeant First Class Chad Johnson said a 1999 Toyota Tacoma driven by 21-year-old Reed Edward Haga of Carnesville was traveling […]
Read moreStephens County takes another step towards restoring recycling for county residents. At their meeting on Tuesday, Stephens County Commissioners unanimously approved a motion to authorize staff to acquire bins to put at the landfill to serve as a single recycling location and to request the county’s Citizens’ Advisory Panel on Litter and Blight to come up with and present a […]
Read moreStephens County honors its Top Five. The Toccoa Rotary Club held the annual Top Five Reception and Banquet Tuesday at Stephens County High School. Each year, the banquet honors the top five percent of the graduating class at Stephens County High School. It also honors the top five students in Grades Six through Eleven. Toccoa Rotary Club President the Very […]
Read moreThe Stephens County Sheriff’s Office is announcing more arrests in connection to the investigation of a homicide in Virginia earlier this month. Earlier this month, three people were arrested in Toccoa in connection to the alleged homicide of a man near Roanoke, Virginia. At the time of those arrests, authorities said that the investigation was ongoing and more arrests were […]
Read moreTwo people face charges after authorities say a fight sends someone to the hospital. It allegedly happened on May 6 on Rumsey Road. Stephens County Sheriff Randy Shirley said that his office responded to a call of someone who was bleeding and unresponsive. “Two individuals, a boyfriend and girlfriend, had come to the residence regarding some argument during the afternoon […]
Read moreThe city of Toccoa is condeming two more city hotels. Monday, Toccoa officials announced that the Budget Inn and Toccoa Motel, both located on Currahee Street, were inspected on May 4 and found as unfit for human habitation. City officials said that after being notified of the violations, the owner of Budget Inn and Toccoa Motel made the decision to […]
Read moreThe city of Toccoa has its budget in place for Fiscal Year 2016. Toccoa City Commissioners unanimously approved the budget for next fiscal year at their meeting Monday. Toccoa’s Fiscal Year 2016 budget totals just under $36.2 million and includes no change in the millage rate for city property owners and no change in utility rates for city water and […]
Read moreThe Georgia State Patrol is releasing more information about an accident that injured a pedestrian in Stephens County over the weekend. It occurred on Georgia Highway 17 in the Martin area, near the Stephens County-Franklin County line, just after 9 p.m. on Sunday. Toccoa GSP Post Commander Chad Johnson said a 2014 Nissan Sentra, driven by 24-year-old Savannah Renea Woods […]
Read moreBy MJ Kneiser, WLHR Radio, Lavonia Ty Cobb Healthcare officials said they had no choice but to sell the Ty Cobb Regional Medical Center to St. Mary’s Healthcare System. That was the message at a state-required public hearing on the proposed sale last Thursday. Ty Cobb CEO Greg Hearn said during the hearing that the hospital had been losing money […]
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