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9th District U.S. Representative Doug Collins said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is reversing course on a controversial policy change. Collins announced Wednesday that he has been told that the Corps would suspend implementation of a previous policy decision that would have prohibited property owners from withdrawing water from Lake Hartwell for irrigation. According to Collins, the Corps will […]

A former Stephens County school system employee faces charges of Incest and Sexual Exploitation of a Minor. Stephens County Sheriff Randy Shirley said that 50-year-old Robert Anthony Daniel was arrested last Wednesday, January 13 on the charges. Daniel is the former girls’ basketball coach at Stephens County High School and a former teacher at Stephens County Middle School. He resigned […]

The final two people charged in connection with a Virginia homicide that were captured in Toccoa last year enter guilty pleas in a Virginia courtroom. The Roanoke Times reports that last week, 31-year-old Daniel Percy Arnot of Toccoa pleaded guilty in a Franklin County, Virginia courtroom to murder as well as a string of charges including burglary, armed burglary, grand […]

Authorities said they are still seeking a suspect involved in a chase last weekend in Stephens County. The chase reportedly involved the Georgia State Patrol, the Stephens County Sheriff’s Office, and the Toccoa Police Department. According to the Toccoa post of the Georgia State Patrol, it started at about 9:30 p.m. on Saturday night and lasted for about six minutes. […]

The Stephens County Board of Education will hold off for now on moving forward with filling the board seat left vacant by the resignation of Dr. Elizabeth Pinkerton. Pinkerton resigned earlier this month and board members discussed how to move forward at their meeting on Tuesday. Stephens County School Superintendent Bryan Dorsey said that policies and statutes in place call […]

The new administrator at Stephens County Hospital continues to settle in to her role. Lynne Anderson took over in full for Ed Gambrell on January 1 following Gambrell’s retirement. In the months prior to Gambrell’s retirement, Anderson worked at the hospital with Gambrell during a transition period. She said she is getting comfortable now in the administrator position, in part […]

With the start of a new calendar year, the call is again going out for mentors in the Stephens County school system. January marks the 15th annual National Mentoring Month and Family Connection of Stephens County is participating in a campaign to expand mentoring opportunities. Nancy Ekback is the Mentor Coordinator for Stephens County and Family Connection. She said that […]

Good news comes in on the audit report for Stephens County Hospital. The Hospital Authority presented the Fiscal Year 2015 audit report it received at Monday’s meeting. According to the Hospital Authority, auditors Dixon, Hughes, and Goodman gave the hospital a clean audit opinion again for the fiscal year that ended on September 30, 2015. Stephens County Hospital Administrator Lynne […]

By MJ Kneiser, WLHR Radio, Lavonia It’s that time of the year again as a new tax filing season is set to start today. The Internal Revenue Service has announced it will begin accepting returns today. IRS Spokesman Mark Green said they are expecting most tax filers to file electronically again this year. “The good news about this is that […]