Category: News

Addison Canberg has been named as November’s Work-Based Learning Student of the Month by the Stephens County Development Authority and the Stephens County High School Work-based learning program. Canberg is employed at the Toccoa-Stephens County Humane Shelter, as it aligns with her future career goals. Canberg is a junior at SCHS plans on becoming a poultry veterinarian.  Donna West, Shelter […]

The Stephens County Sheriff’s Office is hiring deputies for the uniform patrol and jail divisions.  Requirements for the uniform patrol division include completion, or willingness to complete, the Peace Officers Standards and Training Basic Law Enforcement Training, a minimum of 30 hours of yearly P.O.S.T. approved training, possess a valid US Driver’s License and have a satisfactory MVR. Requirements for […]

On December 14, at 12:30 p.m., the Stephens County Sheriff’s Office attempted to conduct a traffic stop on a motorcycle after observing traffic violations. The driver failed to come to a stop, accelerating instead. Driving in a reckless manner, he failed to stop at several stop signs. He turned left onto Davis road, and then pulled into a private driveway […]

Toccoa City Hall will be closed December 25 and 26 in observance of Christmas. Routes for garbage and recycling scheduled to be picked up on Monday, December 25 will be picked up on Wednesday, December 27 and routes for garbage and recycling scheduled to be picked up on Tuesday, December 26 will be picked up on Thursday, December 28. Commercial […]

With an end-of-year deadline looming, the City of Toccoa is still waiting for documents from Georgia Power to finalize the city’s water withdrawal permit from Lake Yonah for the coming year.  As previously reported by WNEG News, Georgia Power recently advised city officials that Toccoa’s 6 million gallons per day, or MGD, permit – which historically has run the city […]

During the December 13, 2023, Stephens County Board of Education meeting, Claudia Markham and Jodi Bullard were named the December “Spirit of Stephens” award winners.  Markham serves as a teacher at Toccoa Elementary School, and Bullard is a paraprofessional at Liberty Elementary School. Each month during the school year, the Stephens County School System honors employees with this award. Nominations […]

The final movie in the Christmas Movie Series at the Historic Ritz Theatre will be Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, with showings at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. this Thursday, Dec. 21. Tickets and concessions are $1 each. Tickets are sold at the box office, one hour before show times. For more information, contact Tami Mayhugh at 706-244-0039 or […]

Georgia Trend Magazine has ranked Stephens County Hospital as one of the top small hospitals in the state, only ranking behind one other hospital in the state. In the publication’s 2023 Top Hospitals report, released on Nov. 30,  twenty one hospitals statewide were placed in the Small Hospitals category, and Stephens County was ranked second, behind only Piedmont Mountainside Hospital […]

North Georgia Technical College (NGTC) recently announced students named to the President’s List and Honor Roll for fall semester 2023. The President’s List recognizes full-time students with a 4.0 GPA. The Honor Roll recognizes full-time students with a 3.5 GPA. Full-time students are those taking at least 12 credit hours with no developmental courses.     Students named to the […]

A Toccoa teacher’s proposal to design and install a native pollinator garden earned her school a $1,000 grant from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.  Jina Harris, a third-grade teacher at The Learning Tree Academy’s Outdoor Learning School, has received DNR’s 2023-24 Conservation Teacher of the Year grant.  The annual award is presented to a kindergarten through fifth-grade public or […]