Author: MJ Kneiser

Lake Hartwell’s annual Clean Up Green Up campaign for spring is going on all this week and ends on Saturday, but they can still use volunteers. Last year, the Savannah Army Corps of Engineers’ Hartwell Lake Office and the Lake Hartwell Association (LHA) announced a new, year-round effort at keeping the shores of Hartwell Lake clean. Dustin Cullen, Hartwell Lake […]

A Franklin County man accused in the murder of his mother and her dog will spend the rest of his life in prison. Testimony in the trial for John Robert “Rob” Dye, 40, was to have begun Tuesday morning, but just before it was set to begin, Dye entered a blind guilty plea before Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Malcom. Dye […]

The Franklin County Chamber of Commerce honors Franklin County School Superintendent Dr. Ruth O’Dell, system teachers and the Franklin County Board of Education. On Tuesday, the Chamber took time at their quarterly luncheon meeting in Carnesville to recognize the the school system for its mammoth effort in raising the graduation rate at the high school. Cindy Phillips is an assistant […]

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has arrested a suspect in connection with the shooting death of a Toccoa man earlier this year. In statement released Tuesday, the GBI announced they have arrested 35-year old Marqkeela Lawain Hill of Douglasville and charged him in the death of 21-year old Tomas Colbert of Toccoa. Colbert was shot in an apartment on Falls […]

By Charlie Bauder, WNEG Radio, Toccoa Stephens County honors its Teacher of the Year. The annual Stephens County School System Teacher of the Year banquet took place last week at the Currahee Campus of North Georgia Technical College. This year’s system-wide teacher of the year, named back in November, is art teacher Timothy Mitchell, representing Liberty Elementary School as its […]