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Georgia Governor Nathan Deal says a state of emergency over the winter weather this week was extended into Stephens County. Stephens County is one of 24 counties that the Georgia Emergency Management Agency says ended up under the state of emergency that was first declared for 15 counties on Monday prior to the storm moving in. That state of emergency […]

A Toccoa resident is reporting a burglary to police. An officer responded to a Falls Park Drive residence on Sunday in reference to a burglary that had already occurred. In the report, a woman says that someone entered her home through a kitchen window sometime on Saturday and took an RCA tablet, LG phone, and $50 in cash. Meanwhile, a […]

A Toccoa native graduates from Basic Combat Training in the Army. Army Pvt. Tyrin K. Merritt has graduated from Basic Combat Training at Fort Benning, Ga. During the nine-week training period, the Army says the trainee received instruction in drill and ceremony, weapons, rifle marksmanship and bayonet training, chemical warfare, field training and tactical exercises, armed and unarmed combat, military courtesy, military justice, physical fitness, […]

An investigation by local and regional authorities leads to a drug arrest in Toccoa. The Stephens County Sheriff’s Office, Appalachian Regional Drug Enforcement Office, and Georgia Department of Corrections K-9 Unit served a search warrant recently at a residence on Emily Street. Stephens County Sheriff Randy Shirley said that search warrant was just one part of a multi-pronged effort that […]

By MJ Kneiser, WLHR Radio, Lavonia The search for a missing kayaker on Lake Hartwell has been suspended temporarily. Dive teams and rescuers from the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Georgia Department of Natural Resources, as well as elsewheer canvassed the lake throughout the weekend in an attempt to locate 64-year old Brady Hamby of West Union, South […]

A winter weather advisory is in effect for Stephens County starting at noon today and lasting through Tuesday at 7 a.m. National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg Meteorologist Neil Dixon said, however, that most of the precipitation in Stephens County is expected to be of the unfrozen variety. “Fortunately, most of the precipitation that develops later on today and this evening is […]

Stephens County Attorney Brian Ranck called a hearing on the Wilbros’ matter with the Georgia Environmental Protection Division Friday a major victory for the community. On Friday, a Fulton County Superior Court Judge heard Wilbros’ motion for a stay on the EPD’s administrative order revoking Wilbros’ solid waste and wastewater discharge permits while Wilbros appeals the order and a ruling […]

Stephens County School Superintendent Bryan Dorsey said that the Stephens County School System must cut another $2.6 million from its budget in the next fiscal year that starts July 1 in order to push the need to borrow money back past July in calendar year 2016. Dorsey gave the Stephens County Board of Education that figure at its work session […]

By MJ Kneiser, WLHR Radio, Lavonia Lavonia Police are asking for the public’s help to find the suspect who took a white van from a local health services company. According to Lavonia Police Investigator Captain Daniel Carson, it happened sometime Monday evening. “It was stolen between 4:30p and midnight on the evening of February 9, from the Home Base Healthcare […]

Stephens County school board members continue to debate what to do with the cannery. The Stephens County Board of Education discussed the cannery again at its work session and called meeting on Thursday. Last month, Stephens County School Superintendent Bryan Dorsey announced that the cannery’s operations, after much discussion, had ben cut from 10 hours a day, four days a […]