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Stephens County Commissioners have announced a called meeting that will take place later this morning. Today’s called meeting of the Stephens County Commission will take place at 10 a.m. in the historic Stephens County Courthouse in downtown Toccoa. There is only one item on the agenda for the called meeting. That is consideration of a motion to authorize the county […]
Read moreA local health care facility comes together to celebrate a new beginning. Thursday, the Toccoa-Stephens County Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for NGPG Toccoa Clinic, the former Toccoa Clinic, at its administrative offices in the Foothills Centre on Big A Road in Toccoa. The Northeast Georgia Physicians Group took over the clinic last Fall and put it under […]
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Toccoa Police Chief Tim Jarrell is helping out a Habersham County town in the absence of its police chief. Jarrell is serving as the Interim, Part-Time Chief in the town of Mt. Airy while its Chief, Corey Allen, is reportedly on administrative leave. According to Jarrell, he was contacted last week about filling the post on a temporary basis and […]
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Toccoa City Commissioners have a busy day planned today. The city commission meets for a planning session, work session, and regular meeting later today. First, Toccoa City Commissioners are meeting for a planning session with the city’s Downtown Development Authority at 1:30 p.m. During the planning session, the DDA and Toccoa City Commissioners are expected to discuss the goals for […]
Read moreA global company in the food industry is investing millions of dollars and creating tens of new jobs in northeast Georgia. Last week, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal announced that Diana Food, a global provider of natural ingredients to the food and beverage industry, will create more than 80 new jobs and invest $50 million in a food processing, manufacturing and […]
Read moreBy Charles Robertson, WLHR Radio, Lavonia The city of Lavonia continues to work on its sidewalk streetscape project. There have been road cones and workers throughout the downtown area of Lavonia this past week. Lavonia City Manager Charles Cawthon said it is for a project that started back in 2012. “This is the continuation of the T-project,” said Cawthon. “This […]
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An annual event brings out city and community leaders to recognize a year of improvements in downtown Toccoa. Thursday, the Toccoa Main Street Program hosted its annual Main Street Awards ceremony at the historic Ritz Theatre at the Schaefer Center in downtown Toccoa. The Main Street program handed out awards to six different individuals, organizations, or businesses. Toccoa Main Street […]
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Preliminary numbers from the Georgia Labor Department show that Stephens County ended the year with a slight uptick in unemployment. According to numbers released Thursday, Stephens County had a preliminary unemployment rate of 5.8 percent in December. That is up two-tenths of a percentage point from November’s 5.6 percent and one-tenth of a percentage point from the December 2015 rate […]
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Recent rains are continuing to help improve the drought situation in Stephens County and throughout northeast Georgia. The latest report from the U.S. Drought Monitor that was issued on Thursday shows that drought conditions in Stephens County have lessened to “severe drought.” That is a step down from “extreme drought,” which is where Stephens County was last week. Much of […]
Read moreNorth Georgia Technical College announces its winner for an annual teaching award. The school recently announced photography instructor Jim Loring of Clayton as the winner of the 2017 Rick Perkins Award for Excellence in Technical Instruction. The Rick Perkins Award for Excellence in Technical Instruction has been an ongoing statewide event since 1991 and is designed to recognize technical college […]
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