Category: News

Additional charges are possible after a brief car chase last month in Toccoa. It occurred on the afternoon of November 23, just before 2:30 p.m. Toccoa Police Chief Tim Jarrell said an officer attempted to conduct a traffic stop on an individual on Big A Road who police knew was wanted on an outstanding parole warrant. However, Jarrell said the […]

Numbers are in from the Georgia Department of Public Safety for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. According to the Georgia State Patrol, 14 people were killed on Georgia highways over the Thanksgiving weekend. The Thanksgiving holiday weekend started at 6 p.m. Wednesday and ended at midnight Sunday. That is a total of 102 hours. Nine of those fatalities were investigated by […]

By MJ Kneiser, WLHR Radio, Lavonia An accused murderer in Franklin County is set to go on trial this week. The trial of accused murderer Brent Shubert was expected to get underway Monday in Superior Court in Carnesville. Shubert is the Franklin County man accused in the 2013 strangulation murder of his fiancée, Bonnie Ann Cooner. Opening arguments were expected […]

Stephens County is planning to upgrade its wireless Internet service for its government building and historic courthouse. Last Tuesday, Stephens County Commissioners approved a budget amendment to pay added costs associated with upgrading the Public Wi-Fi connection for both the Stephens County Government Building and the historic Stephens County Courthouse. Mountain Judicial Circuit Superior Court Judge Rusty Smith and others […]

Stephens County Commissioners are considering abandoning part of Camp Mikell Road. The issue came before county commissioners on Tuesday. According to Stephens County Administrator Phyllis Ayers, the county is looking at abandoning only the part of the road that begins at a creek that does not have a bridge over it and continues onto Forest Service property. Ayers said there […]

The Stephens County Board of Education said that it will re-open its offices today at its new location. Both the main BOE offices and Central Records will now be open at the new location, 191 Big A School Road, which is the old Big A Elementary School. School system officials made the announcement on the school system’s Facebook page. The […]

By MJ Kneiser, WLHR Radio, Lavonia Franklin County Commissioners have approved the election results for the next special purpose local option sales tax and the bond referendum. At its work session last week, the Franklin County Commission heard from County Manager Beth Thomas, who instructed the board to pass both resolutions so the process of issuing the bonds could begin. […]

A Franklin County teenager is safe after having gone missing over the weekend. Early Sunday morning, the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office announced that it was looking for 16-year-old Caleb Moran of Carnesville. The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office said that Moran had been missing since late Friday night. Later on Sunday, Franklin County authorities announced that Moran was located and is […]

Just a reminder on the holiday schedule for garbage pickup in the city of Toccoa. Routes for garbage and recycling that were scheduled to be picked up on Thursday, November 26 in the city of Toccoa will be picked up today and routes for garbage and recycling that were scheduled to be picked up on Friday, November 27 will be […]

Preliminary October unemployment figures from the Georgia Department of Labor show a small drop in Stephens County’s unemployment rate when compared to September. Stephens County had a preliminary October unemployment rate of 6 percent, one-tenth of a percentage point down from September’s revised rate of 6.1 percent and 1.2 percentage points down from October 2014’s revised rate of 7.2 percent. […]