Category: News

Stephens County Sheriff Randy Shirley is asking for the public’s help in locating a man who’s been missing for three weeks. According to Shirley, Devin Wade left his home on Oak Valley Road on October 26 and hasn’t been seen or heard from since. Officials describe Wade as a white male, standing close to 6 feet tall with a weight […]

The Historic Ritz Theatre will be celebrating its 80th anniversary on Friday in downtown Toccoa. And tickets for the 80th anniversary celebration are still available. The celebration will be an evening of entertainment and culminates with a screening of The Wizard of Oz, which was released the same year the Ritz Theatre opened its doors back in 1939. According to […]

Three Toccoa residents were arrested after a Sheriff’s Deputy observed what appeared to be a drug deal in a parking lot on Big A Road. According to Stephens County Sheriff Randy Shirley, the incident occurred on Tuesday, November 12, when deputies with his office were in the parking lot of a shopping center on Big A Road and observed some […]

WNEG News has received reports of a high-speed chase that ended in Stephens County Tuesday night. According to reports, the chase started around 9:15 p.m. after Franklin County Sheriff’s Deputies attempted to initiate a traffic stop on a 2002 Jeep Liberty for speeding, following too closely, and failure to maintain lane, on I-85; however, the subject sped up to over […]

Stephens County Sheriff Randy Shirley has announced that the suspect believed to be responsible for the robbery of a Toccoa business have been apprehended. The suspect has been identified as 22-year-old William Merle Jakubac, of Toccoa. The incident occurred on Monday, November 11, after Sheriff’s Deputies were dispatched to a business on Big A Road. According to Shirley, when deputies […]

Stephens County High School’s CTAE Fall Advisory Committee Meeting was held this week in Stephens County. Stephens County Schools Deputy Superintendent Dr. Daniel Oldham welcomed the group of business leaders, educators, and students who attended the event. Oldham spoke about how significance it is to a supportive community in Stephens County. “I have learned that this community has a heart […]

While many people have plans to check off the majority of items on their shopping lists during Black Friday, Main Street Toccoa wants to remind you to save some room for Small Business Saturday. First observed nationally in 2010, Small Business Saturday or Shop Small Saturday is a counterpart to Black Friday and Cyber Monday, which feature big box retail […]

Authorities are asking for the public’s help to find and arrest the person responsible for setting a Habersham County apartment complex on fire Monday morning. It happened just after 1:40 a.m. Monday, at apartments 457 and 459 located off of Irvin Street, in Cornelia. Fire Investigators with the Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner’s Office has determined the fire was arson. […]

Atlanta-based Chick-Fil-A  has dropped the Paul Anderson Youth Home in Vidalia, Georgia from its Foundation’s donation list for 2020. According to a report in the Atlanta Journal Constitution,  Chick-fil-A President and COO Tim Tassopoulos told Bisnow the Paul Anderson Youth Home in Vidalia, Georgia, would no longer be funded by the company. Anderson, a Toccoa, Georgia, native, started the home after […]

The Stephens County Board of Commissioners recently approved a motion for a purchase order for a new vehicle for the Sheriff’s Office not to exceed $36,000 for the police rated vehicle and $4,000 for the equipping of the vehicle using funds from the SPLOST VI account. The original item presented to the board was for a used vehicle not to […]