Category: News

Main Street Toccoa is the recipient of a Tourism Product Development Grant. On March 2, Explore Georgia, the Tourism Division within the Georgia Department of Economic Development, announced that it had awarded $5,000 in tourism product development grants to Main Street Toccoa for an Alleyway Restoration Project, to be completed by July 2021. According to Main Street Manager Christian Hamilton, […]

The Stephens County Development Authority will meet on Monday, March 8, to finalize the hiring of Brittany Ivey to fill the President and Chief Executive Officer position within the Development Authority. The meeting will begin at 7:30 a.m. at the Stephens County Development Authority office located in downtown Toccoa. As WNEG News reported last week, Ivey was named the sole […]

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp will make a stop in Habersham County next week to visit the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Mass Vaccination Site. Kemp will tour the site beginning at 8:30 a.m. As a reminder, GEMA/HS opened four Mass Vaccination Sites across the state for COVID-19 last month. The drive-through sites have the capacity to vaccinate 1,100 people […]

The latest DPH Report for the six county area of Stephens, Habersham, Franklin, Hart, Rabun, and Banks is showing an increase of only 8 positive cases of Covid-19, but one death. The Georgia Department of Public Health is still reporting a total of 71 deaths in Stephens County with 2,867 residents testing positive for the virus, since the beginning of […]

Eastanollee, Carnes Creek, New Hope, Martin and Toccoa Fire Departments responded to a structure fire at Two Day Design, located on Ridgeland Road, this morning in Stephens County. According to Eastanollee Fire Department Chief Jamey Gettys, when they arrived on-scene, they could see smoke coming from the building. Gettys says no civilians were injured in the fire; however, one Firefighter […]

By MJ Kneiser, WLHR The Hart County Grand Jury has indicted RC Oglesby on one count of sexual exploitation of a child. Oglesby was arrested Thursday, February 4 by Hartwell Police on charges of child pornography, according to Hartwell Assistant Police Chief Stan Sayer. “When we were investigating the RICO case, we were assisting the GBI with an execution of […]

Family Connection of Stephens County and the Elks Lodge number 1820 have partnered to host a sock drive in Stephens County. According to Family Connection Executive Director Noel Pauley socks are the most requested items at clothes closets and the least donated. Pauley says socks can be dropped off at several locations across the county. She says the sock drive […]

The Georgia Department of Public Health is still reporting a total of 71 deaths in Stephens County with 2,864 residents testing positive for the virus, since the beginning of the global pandemic. The latest report was released Tuesday afternoon. The latest report has an additional death in Habersham County bringing the total to 137 and now 4,553 positive cases of […]

Ninth District Opportunity has announced it will begin scheduling appointments for Cooling Help on 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 up […]

The Georgia Department of Public Health is reporting another Covid-19 related death in Stephens County bringing the total now to 71 with 2,858 residents testing positive for the virus, since the beginning of the global pandemic. The latest report was released Monday afternoon. DPH is also reporting a death in Franklin County bring the total to 37 and now 2,268 […]