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Toccoa City Commissioners held their first business meeting of 2017 on Monday. During the meeting at Toccoa City Hall, the city commission ratified the selection of Jeanette Jamieson as Mayor and David Austin as Vice-Mayor for the next 12 months. Jamieson and Austin were originally selected from among the five commissioners to serve in those roles for this year at […]
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Stephens County’s Relay for Life campaign kicks off with a meeting tonight. The 2017 Stephens County Relay for Life Kick-off event is tonight at 6 p.m. at the Stephens County Senior Center on Rose Lane in Toccoa. Each year, funds raised during the Relay for Life benefit the American Cancer Society. Local American Cancer Society Community Manager Cameron Lopez said […]
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City of Toccoa and Stephens County officials are both reporting that there were no major problems over the weekend due to the winter weather. Toccoa City Manager Billy Morse and Stephens County Administrator Phyllis Ayers both said that everything ran smoothly from a public works perspective during the snow that fell Friday night into Saturday morning. Also, Toccoa Police Chief […]
Read moreStephens County Commissioners will start their calendar year this morning with a regularly scheduled meeting and work session. The county commission will meet at 8:30 a.m. in the historic Stephens County Courthouse in downtown Toccoa for its first meeting of 2017. With this being the first meeting of the year, the county commission will take up a number of yearly […]
Read morePassengers riding the Amtrak Crescent line between Atlanta and New Orleans on several days over the next two months will receive bus service to help complete their trip due to track work affecting the line. Amtrak said the work being performed by Norfolk Southern Railway is affecting both the Southbound Train 19 and Northbound Train 20. Service southbound is affected […]
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The ongoing drought has also had a major effect on lake levels at Hartwell Lake and area residents want answers on how to minimize the problem as much as possible. Residents at last week’s state legislative preview meeting in Toccoa questioned state and federal representatives on the matter. Those residents questioned why Corps lakes could not be maintained in the […]
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A wet start to 2017 has improved drought conditions in Stephens County, according to the year’s first Drought Monitor report. That report, which was released last week, shows that Stephens County and all of north Georgia that was in “exceptional drought” has moved back into the second-worst level on the drought monitor, “extreme drought.” Stephens, Habersham, Banks, and Franklin counties […]
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Toccoa City Commissioners will get their new year started later today. The city commission will hold both a planning meeting and a regularly scheduled business meeting today. Today’s planning meeting is set to start at 11:30 a.m. at Ping’s Grill at the Links at Lake Toccoa golf course. During the planning meeting, the city commission is scheduled to hear from […]
Read moreThe winners are in for this years Christmas Storefront Window Contest in downtown Toccoa. Main Street Toccoa announced the winners last week. First place went to CK Morgan & Company. Second place went to Victoria’s Sweet Treats. Third place went to Details Salon 73. Main Street Toccoa Events Coordinator Sharon Crosby said they appreciate the participants and the voters. “We […]
Read moreA bill championed by 9th District U.S. Representative Doug Collins is moving on to the Senate. Last week, the House passed H.R. 26, the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny, or REINS, Act by a vote of 237-187. The legislation would require that any major rules set forth by executive agencies be approved by both Congress and the […]
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