Category: News

Toccoa Police Chief Tim Jarrell has resigned. Jarrell submitted his resignation to City Manager Billy Morse on Friday. His last day will be December 30th. In his written resignation, Jarrell said he has accepted a position with the town of Mt. Airy, GA to serve as their Police Chief and City Manager effective January 1. “During my time here I […]

Christmas Fest 2017 draws crowd this past weekend. The festivities began Friday evening and continued through Saturday. Several residents of Stephens and surrounding counties attending the event, all spoke highly of the efforts that both the County and the city of Toccoa put into the festival this year. The streets along downtown Toccoa were all lit up with Christmas lights […]

A former Stephens County High School football star, Blake Perry comes back to Stephens County for pinning ceremony. Perry has been in the Marine Corps for soon to be eight years. On Friday, he was promoted from Sergeant to Staff Sergeant in a special ceremony, where he was pinned. According to Sargent Major Michael Johnson, the recruiting station Sargent Major […]

The ARC of Stephens County hosted, this past Friday, its annual Christmas Party and Dance for individuals with disabilities, held at Ebenezer Family Life Center, located on Rose Lane, in Toccoa. The group organizers had anticipated 125 members attending the event. While WNEG News was on site, Organizer Geraldine Hayes said that this marked the 20th anniversary for the Christmas […]

Main Street Toccoa’s Christmas Fest is slated to begin tonight, to kick-off the Christmas season. Both tonight and tomorrow will provide the public with several opportunities to take-in the festivities of the holiday season. The 8th annual event includes carolers, open shops and restaurants, Santa, a live nativity, the lighting of the city’s Christmas tree on the courthouse lawn on […]

The final Holiday traffic count for the Thanksgiving travel period is in. The Georgia Department of Public Safety released earlier this week the total number of traffic crashes across Georgia during the holiday travel period which resulted in 12 traffic deaths. This year, the holiday travel period was 102 hours long, beginning at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 22, and […]

During the recent Stephens County Board of Commissioners regular scheduled meeting and work session, the board of commissioners voted and approved moving forward with the occupation tax ordinance; however, the vote was not unanimous with Commissioner Stanley London voting in opposition of the ordinance. The occupation tax rate schedule would take the gross income of a business and create a […]

Hart County Sheriff Mike Cleveland on Thursday released the name of the man found dead in Lake Hartwell Tuesday afternoon. “The drowning victim found on Nov. 27 has been identified as Alex Dunne, 23, of Athens,” Cleveland said Thursday. A fisherman reported what appeared to be a body floating in the Powerbag area of Lake Hartwell off Old 29 mid-afternoon […]

During the recent Stephens County Board of Commissioners meeting, Tuesday night, the commissioners held a final public hearing for a land rezoning and conditional use request. Both requests were presented before the commission by Chad Singleton, regarding two parcels of land located off of Hwy 145, at Ridgeland Road. Singleton requested that the commission consider rezoning both parcels from agriculture […]