Author: MJ Kneiser

The 18th annual Currahee Military Weekend starts this evening in Toccoa-Stephens County. According to Currahee Military Museum Executive Director Brenda Carlin this weekend will be filled with lots of events for history buffs and veterans to enjoy. Carlin says this year the weekend kicks off tonight with a special pre-weekend event. “This year it’s going to be Joe Gransden with […]

The nationwide search for the man believed to be responsible for the death of a Lumpkin County woman is over. According to a report in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, 21-year old Austin Todd Stryker turned himself in to authorities in Pennsylvania on Wednesday. Stryker is wanted for the murder of Hanna Bender of Lumpkin County last month. Her body was […]

For the second year in a row, Georgia public-school students outperformed their counterparts in the nation’s public schools on the SAT, recording a mean score of 1048, nine points higher than the mean for U.S. public schools. Georgia outperformed the nation’s public schools by nine points in Evidence-Based Reading and Writing (ERW) and performed on par with their national counterparts […]

If you have Anthem healthcare coverage and your healthcare provider is one of the many physicians and clinics under the Northeast Georgia Health System you many have to change doctors. Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS) announced Tuesday that, as of midnight on October 1, most NGHS facilities have been forced out of the Anthem network. Their current contract between Anthem, […]

Yard sale season is still going strong and campaigning for public offices is also underway, and that means you are seeing lots of signs for deals and candidates along our roadways. But the Georgia Department of Transportation is reminding everyone that placing those signs in public rights of way is illegal. G-DOT Spokesperson Katie Strickland points out those signs can […]