Author: Daniel Brown

If you’re a deer hunter who hunts at a wildlife management area (WMA), you now have a way to have the results of all WMA hunts in the state at your fingertips when planning your season.   The Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resources Division has developed an internet database that house biological deer data collected by biologists and […]

By Charlie Bauder, WNEG Teachers, parents, students, and others supporting Stephens County High School Agriculture Teacher Daniel Hebert make their feelings known to the Toccoa-Stephens County Humane Shelter Board. The shelter board met Monday at Toccoa City Hall. Hebert was summoned to appear in Stephens County Magistrate Court this month on two counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty for reportedly castrating […]

The City of Bowman is looking to increase their involvement in the issue of animal control. In mid-November, Bowman City Mayor Pete Gibbons met with County Code Enforcement Officer Patrick Hopp and Animal Control Officer Jeff Simpson to discuss what the city could do to bring code enforcement back to the city. “We’ve had several issues with stray and loose dogs interfering […]

A Toccoa man pleads guilty in connection to a 2012 fatal motorcycle crash in Stephens County. 34-year-old Joshua Lamar Hanley entered a guilty plea in front of Judge Chan Caudell in Stephens County Superior Court on Monday. Hanley pleaded guilty to one count of Homicide by Vehicle in the First Degree in connection with the death of Lisa Childs Terrell […]

Funeral arrangements are now set for a Franklin County family killed in a traffic accident during the Thanksgiving Holiday.  Graveside services for 48-year-old Jerry Russell Cannon, his wife, 32-year-old Katheryn Marie Brendle Cannon, and their daughter, five-year-old Rose Marie Cannon will be on Thursday, 2pm at the Lavonia City Burgess Cemetery.  The family will receive friends that day from noon […]