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Toccoa City Commissioners said this week they are still looking at a request for a water line for a resident in the Lake Harbor Shores community of Stephens County. Buddy Trexler came back before city commissioners on Monday to ask about the line. He first spoke to the city commission in October and asked the city of Toccoa for a […]
Read moreBy MJ Kneiser, WLHR Radio, Lavonia Charges are pending against a driver who authorities say caused a wreck in Lavonia Monday night. It happened at about 7:30 p.m. Monday on State Route 17 near Grady School Road. Georgia State Patrol Hartwell Post Commander Sergeant Scott Andrews said a vehicle traveling north on Highway 17 crossed into the southbound lane. “It […]
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The city of Toccoa receives good news on its Fiscal Year 2016 audit. Toccoa City Commissioners received their annual audit report at a planning meeting at Ping’s Grill at the Links at Lake Toccoa on Monday. Joel Black from the city’s auditing firm, Mauldin and Jenkins, presented the results of the audit for the fiscal year that ended June 30, […]
Read moreToccoa City Commissioners held their first business meeting of 2017 on Monday. During the meeting at Toccoa City Hall, the city commission ratified the selection of Jeanette Jamieson as Mayor and David Austin as Vice-Mayor for the next 12 months. Jamieson and Austin were originally selected from among the five commissioners to serve in those roles for this year at […]
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Stephens County’s Relay for Life campaign kicks off with a meeting tonight. The 2017 Stephens County Relay for Life Kick-off event is tonight at 6 p.m. at the Stephens County Senior Center on Rose Lane in Toccoa. Each year, funds raised during the Relay for Life benefit the American Cancer Society. Local American Cancer Society Community Manager Cameron Lopez said […]
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City of Toccoa and Stephens County officials are both reporting that there were no major problems over the weekend due to the winter weather. Toccoa City Manager Billy Morse and Stephens County Administrator Phyllis Ayers both said that everything ran smoothly from a public works perspective during the snow that fell Friday night into Saturday morning. Also, Toccoa Police Chief […]
Read moreStephens County Commissioners will start their calendar year this morning with a regularly scheduled meeting and work session. The county commission will meet at 8:30 a.m. in the historic Stephens County Courthouse in downtown Toccoa for its first meeting of 2017. With this being the first meeting of the year, the county commission will take up a number of yearly […]
Read morePassengers riding the Amtrak Crescent line between Atlanta and New Orleans on several days over the next two months will receive bus service to help complete their trip due to track work affecting the line. Amtrak said the work being performed by Norfolk Southern Railway is affecting both the Southbound Train 19 and Northbound Train 20. Service southbound is affected […]
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The ongoing drought has also had a major effect on lake levels at Hartwell Lake and area residents want answers on how to minimize the problem as much as possible. Residents at last week’s state legislative preview meeting in Toccoa questioned state and federal representatives on the matter. Those residents questioned why Corps lakes could not be maintained in the […]
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A wet start to 2017 has improved drought conditions in Stephens County, according to the year’s first Drought Monitor report. That report, which was released last week, shows that Stephens County and all of north Georgia that was in “exceptional drought” has moved back into the second-worst level on the drought monitor, “extreme drought.” Stephens, Habersham, Banks, and Franklin counties […]
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