Category: News

An annual Thanksgiving holiday tradition takes place again this week in Stephens County. It is the annual Sandra Harbin Pre-Thanksgiving Dinner and Wendell Sherman Memorial Gospel Concert. The men of Friendship Baptist Church organize the events each year. They are coming up on Sunday at the Toccoa-Stephens County Boys and Girls Club on Whitman Street in Toccoa. One of the […]

By MJ Kneiser, WLHR Radio, Lavonia New Lavonia Fire Chief Scott O’Barr said things are running smoothly at the Lavonia Fire Department. At the regular Lavonia City Council meeting recently, O’Barr gave the council and Mayor Ralph Owens an end of year report on the department’s status. The Lavonia Fire Department’s fiscal year runs from November 1st to October 31st. […]

With the holidays approaching, the Better Business Bureau is urging people to be on the lookout for fake package notices. The BBB said it is a common tactic for phishing scammers to send emails claiming to be an alert about an undelivered package. Also, in a slightly different variation of this scam, an e-mail may allege to provide order details […]

A teacher at the center of a cat castration controversy at Stephens County High School can return to the classroom Friday. Thursday, the Stephens County Board of Education voted 6 to 1 to suspend teacher Daniel Hebert retroactive to November 7. That means his suspension ended Friday (Nov. 14). Last week, Hebert castrated two cats in an Animal Science class […]

Local leaders hear from Georgia’s Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner at an annual banquet. Ralph Hudgens was the guest speaker at Thursday’s annual Toccoa-Stephens County Farm City Week Banquet at the Currahee Campus of North Georgia Technical College. Stephens County Farm Bureau organizes the banquet each year. Hudgens talked about his long love of and involvement in the agriculture industry […]

Two people face charges after an incident at a Toccoa residence last week. Toccoa Police Chief Tim Jarrell said that authorities arrested both 19-year-old Tefrem Demond Thornton of Toccoa and 17-year-old Jarrad Scot McCraw of Toccoa last week. Jarrell said everything stems from an incident at a home on Julia Lane at about 6:30 p.m. last Thursday evening. “Mr. Thornton […]

By MJ Kneiser, WLHR Radio, Lavonia Just two years after its grand opening, Ty Cobb Regional Medical Center in Lavonia is in a financial crisis so severe they cannot make their next bond payment, which is due December 1st. It now falls to the County to make those payments. In a joint press release issued Tuesday, officials with Ty Cobb […]

A mobile job training unit will return to Toccoa next week to help area residents. The Georgia Mountains Regional Commission Workforce Development Mobile Training Unit will set up at the Toccoa-Stephens County Library on Monday. Mobile Training Unit Instructor Micah Thomas said the mobile unit can provide people with help on their resumes. “We offer resume assistance, so if you […]

Toccoa-Stephens County Humane Shelter Director Jeff Roberts says that Animal Control hopes to have its investigation into an incident involving a cat castration at Stephens County High School concluded in the next day or two. Roberts said to WNEG that he can confirm that two cats were castrated, that they had not had rabies vaccinations and that a student was […]

A mobile food pantry will stop in Stephens County today. It will be at the parking lot of the Toccoa First United Methodist Church on East Tugalo Street in Toccoa from 10 a.m. until food is gone. Food will be distributed to families in need on a first come, first serve basis. People will simply need to drive in and […]