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Stephens County Hospital is adding two general surgeons to its staff. Monday, the Hospital Authority unanimously approved spending $450,000 to purchase an office building on Falls Road that used to house Dr. James Fordyce’s office. Hospital Administrator Ed Gambrell said the space is needed for the two surgeons that will be arriving in Toccoa sometime around the end of November […]
Read moreThe annual Toys for Tots campaign is gearing up in Stephens and surrounding counties. “Toys for Tots” is a program of the Marine Corps and Marine Corps Reserve that collects and distributes toys to children and families in need each holiday season. Don Alexander is the Toys for Tots Coordinator for Stephens, Franklin, Hart, and Elbert counties. He said they […]
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The Stephens County Hospital Authority approves its officers for the next 12 months. Monday, the Hospital Authority voted unanimously to keep the same slate of officers for the year ahead as it has had for the past year. That means Mark Wilkinson will again serve as Chairman of the Hospital Authority, while Dr. Robert Slate will serve as the Authority’s […]
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The Stephens County Board of Education will meet later today for a regularly scheduled meeting. During today’s meeting, the school board may consider adding more days back into the 2015-2016 school calendar in the second semester. Stephens County School Superintendent Bryan Dorsey said he feels comfortable recommending that pending some final numbers on state funding that he was finalizing last […]
Read moreBy MJ Kneiser, WLHR Radio, Lavonia A Toccoa man will spend the next seven years in prison after being convicted of sexually molesting a Franklin County child. On Friday, Franklin County Superior Court Judge Chris Phelps sentenced 50-year old Bobby Todd Jordan to 15 years in prison with seven to serve and eight on probation. Jordan was convicted by a […]
Read moreBy Taylor Jones, WRBN Radio, Clayton The investigation is ongoing into what caused a fire at a Clayton business on Monday morning. Multiple units reported to a fire at Mama G’s Italian Restaurant on U.S. Highway 441 in Clayton Monday morning. Rabun County Chief of Fire Daniel Johnson says that the fire was first reported at 7:52 a.m. On Monday […]
Read moreResidents of Habersham County now have another place to earn their GED and prepare for college or the workforce. North Georgia Technical College has teamed up with Goodwill to offer afternoon GED Preparation classes at the new state of the art Goodwill Career Center in Cornelia. Students will have the opportunity to go to class Monday through Thursday from 12:00 […]
Read moreNumbers from the Stephens County school system show that most of the average class sizes are near where they were last year in grades Pre-K through 5. School Superintendent Bryan Dorsey provided that information to the Stephens County Board of Education at Thursday’s work session. According to those figures, all but two of the grades from Pre-K through 5 that […]
Read moreA Toccoa church receives a grant to assist in a sabbatical for its pastor. St. Matthias Episcopal Church has received a grant of $45,600 to enable its minister, the Very Rev. Mary R.H. Demmler, to participate in the 2015 National Clergy Renewal Program. The Lilly Endowment, Inc. funds the grant and it is administered by the Christian Theological Seminary in […]
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The Toccoa Clinic and the Northeast Georgia Medical Associates chooses former First Lady of Georgia Betty Vandiver as their 2015 recipient of the Margaret Ayers Award for Civic Health. The Margaret Ayers Award for Civic Health is in its 12th year and is named for Margaret Ayers, longtime civic activist, former first lady of Lavonia, and career banker. The award […]
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