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Toccoa honors a number of businesses and individuals at its annual Main Street Awards ceremony. The yearly event, held last night at the Historic Ritz Theatre, brought city officials, downtown business owners, and others together to look back at the last year in downtown. Toccoa Main Street Events Coordinator Sharon Crosby said the city is pleased to recognize this year’s […]

A Royston man is facing multiple charges in Banks County of having improper sexual relations with a student at East Jackson High School. According to Banks County Sheriff Carlton Speed, 29-year old Michael Lee Stanley is charged with four counts of first degree improper sexual contact by an employee of a school. Stanley was employed at the school as a […]

BY MJ Kneiser, WLRH Students are back in class today at Royston Elementary School after a report of smoke caused the school to be evacuated Wednesday. Royston Fire Chief Ryan Parks said they got the call around 10:30 Wednesday morning. “Smoke was reported in the teacher’s break room,” he said. “We searched the area in the teacher’s lounge and found […]

Paula Duley from the Ninth District Opportunity in Stephens County has been awarded the Hearts for Families: Golden Heart Award and the STEP UP Toccoa Workgroup Member of the Year award for 2019. Duley was awarded this honor after contributing more than 5 years of hard work to promote the prevention of underage drinking in Stephens and Franklin counties. She […]

Georgia’s elections board on Wednesday approved a set of rule changes to govern the use of new voting machines that are being rushed out statewide for the state’s fast-approaching presidential primaries in March. State Election Board members acknowledged some of the newly adopted rules may need further fine tuning; however, they were approved regardless, because of the tight deadline for […]

All four suspects wanted in connection to a multi-county theft ring have been apprehended. That’s according to Stephens County Sheriff Randy Shirley. Anthony Christopher Bland, 20, of Homer has been arrested and charged with felony entering an auto and felony theft of an auto. Hailey Allysa Bland, 18, of Eastanollee has been arrested and charged with giving false statements. Blain […]

A Royston man has been identified as the body found floating in a retention pond in Anderson on Monday. According to the Anderson County Sheriff’s spokesman JT Foster, deputies were called to the pond on Appleton Street on the Old Appleton Mill property late Monday morning. There they found the body floating in the water. According to the incident report, […]

President Donald Trump has added U.S. Representative Doug Collins (R) (9th) to his list of advisors in anticipation of the impeachment hearings set to start today in the U.S. Senate. Collins, whose 13-county 9th District includes Franklin, Stephens, Habersham and Hart counties, is among eight U.S. House members hand-picked by the President to serve on his impeachment team. The White […]

The American Red Cross has extended its urgent call for donors of all blood types to give blood or platelets. With influenza escalating across the country and preventing some donors from giving, and winter weather threatening to cancel blood drives, the Red Cross now has a critical shortage of type O blood and urgently needs donors to restock the shelves. […]

BY MJ Kneiser, WLHR State Representative Alan Powell says State Lawmakers from Northeast Georgia are keeping an eye on the two Georgia Renewable Power plants in Franklin and Madison counties. Powell said he and other local state lawmakers are concerned about the GRP plants and the creosote-coated railroad ties being burned to generate power. “I can tell you that Senator […]