Category: News

Toccoa City Commissioners are scheduled to meet today for their second regularly scheduled meeting for the month of November. The city commission is scheduled to hold that meeting today at 5 p.m. at Toccoa City Hall. During the meeting, the Toccoa City Commission is expected to consider approval of a proposal for design services for planned renovations at Henderson Falls […]

An elderly Carnesville man is dead after his home caught fire overnight. It happened at about 4:30 a.m. today on Fulbright Road in Banks County near the intersection of Highways 63 and 198. Banks County Sheriff’s Office Spokesperson Sergeant Carissa McFaddin says that 68-year-old William Macklin Waters was the victim of the single wide mobile home fire. McFaddin says Waters […]

The Stephens County Clerk of Court’s Office is asking residents to watch out for a scam that is making the rounds and has now arrived in Stephens County. Stephens County Clerk of Court Tim Quick says he received the first report of the scam in Stephens County earlier this week. Quick said the scam involves someone calling and pretending to […]

A Stephens County student is one of a handful from the region that is nominated for admission to the U.S. Service Academies. 9th District U.S. Representative Doug Collins announced this week that 15 students from the District have been nominated by him for admission to one of the service academies. Included in that list of 15 is Abigail Vickery of […]

Stephens County Hospital announces the winner of its annual Christmas Card contest. Thursday, Hospital officials traveled to Eastanollee Elementary Contest to announce that Abby Burkhart won this year’s contest. Abby is a 5th grader at Eastanollee Elementary. “I just drew a night on Christmas Eve where Santa Claus is going through the night,” she said. The picture includes presents and […]

By MJ Kneiser, WLHR Radio, Lavonia City of Carnesville officials will host an open house this weekend to show off their new community center. The new Carnesville Community Center was recently completed after a number of years in the planning stages. Carnesville Mayor Harris Little said the town has been without a community center for some years and this new […]

The Stephens County High School cat castration case will be heard in Magistrate Court. Toccoa-Stephens County Humane Shelter Director Jeff Roberts said that animal control has completed its investigation into the incident and made a decision on how to proceed. “I cannot go into specifics of the case, other than to say that we have investigated it,” said Roberts. “We […]

The Toccoa-Stephens County Chamber of Commerce’s search for a new Chamber President could be nearing an end. Chamber Board Chair Greg Roach said that the board plans to hold a called meeting on Monday regarding the search. Roach said the plan is for a vote to take place on Monday by the Chamber Board to extend an offer to a […]

The Stephens County Board of Education tables a request from Evan Oglesby to extend his lease with the school system for the old Toccoa High School gym on Pond Street in Toccoa for a longer term. Last month, Oglesby appeared before the school board and requested a 99-year lease of the gym. Oglesby has a current lease with the school […]

By MJ Kneiser, WLHR Radio, Lavonia Northern Judicial District Attorney Parks White is asking all five counties in the circuit to pay for extra assistant district attorneys. In a presentation to the Hart County Board of Commissioners Tuesday evening, White said crime in the district is increasing and his office needs the extra attorneys to handle that increased case load. […]