The Voice of Wonderful NE Georgia
The movie filming over the next several days in Stephens County is putting out a casting call. “Heritage Falls” is accepting submissions for various featured roles, and background roles for cheerleaders and basketball players for the movie. In order to be considered, please send 2 photos, along with your name, age, height, weight, and phone number to: [email protected]. Please include […]
Read more
The Georgia State Patrol has released details on this weekend’s accident in Stephens County that led to two children being airlifted with injuries. Troopers released the accident report on Tuesday. In it, the GSP said 35-year-old Corey Lane Brodsky of Iva, South Carolina was driving the 2014 Jeep Patriot that was involved in the single-vehicle accident that occurred at 9:36 […]
Read more
The Rapids Futbol Club soccer group will continue to use Alewine Park for its soccer programs. On Monday, the Toccoa City Commission unanimously approved a new lease agreement with the club for the park. Toccoa City Manager Billy Morse said that the city and club have agreed to a one-year lease that would automatically renew for two additional years. “The […]
Read more
The Martin Woman’s Club is leading a beautification and improvement effort in the heart of downtown Martin. Club Vice-President Diane Cole said that work has been taking place throughout the downtown area in a number of different areas. “We have already planted 24 plants in the park and ordered two benches to go in the park and they will be […]
Read moreStephens County Commissioners will hold a regularly scheduled meeting later today. The county commission will meet at 5:30 p.m. today in the second-floor courtroom of the historic Stephens County Courthouse in downtown Toccoa. County commissioners will begin with a work session to discuss items on the meeting agenda, while the actual business meeting where commissioners vote on agenda items as […]
Read moreAn accident last week in Toccoa ended up sending two people to Stephens County Hospital with injuries. It occurred Thursday just after 11 a.m. at the intersection of Big A Road and Tugalo Street. According to a report on file with the Toccoa Police Department, a 1995 Harley XL 883 driven by Levey Simpson Green, age unlisted of Stonewall Court […]
Read moreToday is the deadline to register to vote in order to be eligible to vote in the primary and non-partisan election that is coming up next month in Georgia. People can register to vote by stopping by the Stephens County Registrar’s Office, located in the Courthouse Annex on Tugalo Street in downtown Toccoa. Also, people can register to vote online […]
Read moreBy MJ Kneiser, WLHR Radio, Lavonia The North Georgia Credit Union is celebrating 75 years of service to the community with the grand opening of its new offices in Lavonia. Doors officially opened earlier this month for customers, but last Thursday local leaders, Credit Union board members and employees along with members of the Lavonia DDA and Chamber cut the […]
Read moreStephens County Sheriff Randy Shirley is warning area residents about a problem that a couple of area residents have already fallen victim to after traveling that could make its way to this area. Shirley said his office received the reports recently from two individuals who fell victim to skimming at gas station pumps. “We had two individuals that reported to […]
Read more
Preliminary March figures from the Georgia Department of Labor show good news for Stephens County. Figures released last week indicate Stephens County saw its unemployment rate drop in March to 5.8 percent. That is down four-tenths of a percentage point from February, when the unemployment rate was 6.2 percent, and it is also down 1.1 percentage points from March 2015, […]
Read more