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The first of two political town hall meetings featuring candidates in local races takes place tonight in Stephens County. AM 630 WNEG and the Toccoa-Stephens County Chamber of Commerce are hosting the town hall meeting starting at 6 p.m. tonight at the Schaefer Center in downtown Toccoa. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. for the event. Tonight’s town hall will […]
Read moreBy MJ Kneiser, WLHR Radio, Lavonia The Franklin County School Board’s search for a new school superintendent sends them far and wide only to bring them back home to a local candidate. On Tuesday evening in a special called meeting, Franklin County School Board Chair Joe Greene asked for a motion to announced the Board’s finalist. That choice, by a […]
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Stephens County Commissioners approve a variance and conditional use request to add more solar panels to land on Turner Road in Eastanollee. On Tuesday, the county commission approved the requests from United Renewable Energy to give them the go-ahead to add the solar panels on the back side of the current Turner Road solar panel farm. United Renewable Energy Director […]
Read moreStephens County Commissioners vote to make more changes to the county’s nuisance ordinance. On Tuesday, the county commission approved the proposed changes. County Administrator Phyllis Ayers said that Stephens County is getting rid of some county guidelines from the current ordinance in the agricultural area. “We have removed the grid that discussed specific animals per acreage and then we have […]
Read moreStephens County lifts a road acceptance moratorium, for now at least, to accept one road into the county maintenance system that used to be maintained by the county. On Tuesday, commissioners approved a motion to take the 620 foot road in front of a parcel near the Jeanette Jamieson Intersection into the county road system, name the road, place a […]
Read morePart of State Route 17 in Franklin and Hart counties will get a new surface after the work was approved by the Georgia Department of Transportation recently. The Georgia Department of Transportation has awarded 31 contracts for statewide construction projects totaling over $146.6 million. These projects were advertised for bids in March and awarded on April 1. Among the projects […]
Read moreThe Georgia Department of Transportation is marking National Work Zone Awareness week this week. As part of that, Georgia Department of Transportation officials, along with key state and federal safety partners, paid tribute on Tuesday to the 58 Georgia DOT employees who died in work zone incidents since record-keeping began in 1973. Their primary message Tuesday focused on the rules […]
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The city of Toccoa will remain with the same auditing firm for the next three years. On Monday, city commissioners unanimously approved a contract with the auditing firm of Mauldin and Jenkins of Atlanta that will cover the next three years. Toccoa City Manager Billy Morse said this comes after the city commission chose to put the city’s audit […]
Read morePreparations are underway for the annual “A Taste of Toccoa” event in downtown Toccoa. Main Street Toccoa Events Coordinator Sharon Crosby said that the 26th annual “Taste” will take place later this month. She said it is one of the city’s signature events each year and they are excited for it to come around again. “It will be on Thursday, […]
Read moreStephens County Commissioners will consider adopting proposed changes to the county’s nuisance ordinance at their meeting this morning. The county commission will meet at 8:30 a.m. today in the second-floor courtroom of the historic Stephens County Courthouse in downtown Toccoa. Leading the agenda is a second public hearing on the proposed nuisance ordinance changes. According to Stephens County Attorney Brian […]
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