The Voice of Wonderful NE Georgia
Stephens County Commission Chairman and Comer Police Chief Dennis Bell will continue on for another year as the President of the Peace Officers Association of Georgia. Bell was re-elected last week at the organization’s annual conference in Savannah. This will be the second year in a row that Bell has served as President of the Peace Officers’ Association of Georgia […]
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Stephens County Sheriff Randy Shirley is urging caution for drivers as the new four-lane Highway 17 opens up. Much of the road between Toccoa and Franklin County is already four lanes, though the area between Scott Road and Hayes-Wilbanks Road remains a two-lane highway. According to the sheriff, there have already been some minor accidents. Meanwhile, a final traffic shift […]
Read moreWork on mapping the Toccoa City Cemetery and computerizing those records is almost complete. Faith Bryan and Brandon Carlock from the Georgia Mountains Regional Commission appeared at last week’s Toccoa City Commission work session to provide an update on their project. They have been working on the project since June 2014. Bryan said that work is nearing completion and that […]
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A bomb unit from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation removes suspicious items from a location in Habersham County. The Habersham County Sheriff’s Office said that it responded to a residence on Daniel Road at 12:47 p.m. on Monday. Daniel Road is located west of Clarkesville and Demorest in Habersham County. According to Habersham authorities, they responded in reference to a […]
Read moreA Tennessee man faces drug charges in northeast Georgia after authorities arrested him earlier this month. According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the North Georgia Drug Task Force and the Lavonia Police Department arrested 33-year-old Travis Shelton Courtner of Tennessee for Trafficking in Methamphetamine, Possession of Xanax, Giving False Name and Date of Birth, and two counts of Obstructing […]
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Stephens County sees a jump in its unemployment rate in the month of July. According to figures released last week from the state Labor Department, Stephens County had a preliminary July unemployment rate of 6.6 percent, up six-tenths of a percentage point from June’s 6 percent. The July rate in Stephens County was three-tenths of a percentage point lower than […]
Read moreBy MJ Kneiser, WLHR Radio, Lavonia Now that school is back in session, the Internal Revenue Service is warning college students of a new kind of scam designed to get their money and their personal information. The IRS said impersonators are calling students pretending to be from the agency and demanding that they wire money immediately to pay a “federal […]
Read moreA local church will continue to use the Schaefer Center for the next year. On Friday, the Toccoa Downtown Development Authority unanimously approved a lease for Crosstown Church to use the Schaefer Center for 2017. DDA members had tabled the matter previously at their last meeting on August 12. Toccoa DDA Chair Clint Sanders said that some of the DDA […]
Read moreThe U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Hartwell Lake Office will open four of its larger recreation areas for archery and small game hunting during the regular 2016-2017 Georgia hunting season. That includes the Jenkins Ferry Park in Stephens County, as well as the Paynes Creek Park, New Prospect Park, and Hartwell Dam Quarry Area, which are all in Hart County. […]
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Downtown Toccoa officially lights up the new Ritz Theatre marquee at the Schaefer Center. City and state officials, local residents, and others gathered Thursday evening in front of the Schaefer Center in downtown Toccoa to turn on the new marquee that graces the front of the building. Toccoa Mayor Evan Hellenga said that the renovations of the Schaefer Center, including […]
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