Category: News

The Georgia Department of Public Health is still reporting 75 COVID-related deaths in Stephens County with one less positive case and now a total of 2,926 residents testing positive for the virus, since the beginning of the global pandemic. For the second straight day, the numbers reflected very little in positive cases of the virus. The latest report was released […]

The staff of all Stephens County Schools will get their second dose of the COVID vaccine on Friday. The vaccine clinic will be held at Stephens County High School, in the atrium and old gym, from 3:30 until 6:00 p.m. During the first vaccine clinic, Stephens County School Superintendent Dr. Daniel Oldham said they were able to vaccinate the school […]

Two Stephens County High School athletes held signing ceremonies last week to announce where they’ll attend college and continue their academic and athletic career. Kyle Watson, starting middle linebacker for the Indians football team, will be attending Reinhardt University in Waleska. Kyle has been a member of the Indians football team for 4 years, 3 years on varsity.  He earned All-Region […]

Today is the final day to donate pairs of socks for the Stephens County Family Connection and Elks Lodge’s county-wide sock drive. Throughout the month of March, the two organizations have partnered together to collect socks to be donated to several local organizations to hand out to citizens in need. According to Family Connection Executive Director Noel Pauley socks are […]

The Georgia Department of Public Health is still reporting 75 COVID-related deaths in Stephens County with one less positive case and a total of 2,925 residents testing positive for the virus, since the beginning of the global pandemic. The latest report was released Monday afternoon and only reflected 4 more positive cases of the virus in the six county area […]

Stephens County Health Department has announced that a dog in the area of Elberton Street and South Broad Street, in Toccoa, tested positive for rabies. The dog is described as medium brown in color, ears tipped with a white cream color, feet were a white cream color, golden eyes, and about 18 inches high. The rabies virus does exist in […]

Habersham County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Habersham County educator last week. According to Habersham County Sheriff Joey Terrell, on Friday, March 19, the Habersham County Sheriff’s office Criminal Investigations Division was contacted by the Habersham County School System regarding a teacher providing her personal cellular telephone number to a student and communications with the student that crossed the professional threshold. […]

First United Methodist Church, located at 333 East Tugalo Street, is celebrating Holy Week this week in Toccoa-Stephens County. First United Methodist Church Pastor Brent White says the church will hold daily lunch services from 12 to 12:30 p.m. this week. The church, according to White, will provide everyone a sack lunch during the service and they will practice social […]

As a reminder, Ninth District Opportunity will begin scheduling appointments for Cooling Help this Thursday, April 1. The Cooling Help program is available for households in which every member is age 65 and older or is medically homebound due to health reasons. One-time payments will be made by check issued to the home cooling suppliers on behalf of eligible households […]

Stephens County Clerk of Court Tim Quick has announced that anyone who has been arrested or received a ticket and has moved needs to contact the Stephens County Clerk of Courts Office within the next week to avoid a bench warrant. “I wanted to let everyone know that on March 12th and 17th we had state court—state court is your […]