Category: News

Hartwell Railroad is not responding to offers from the City of Royston to work out alternative plans to closing four railroad crossings. That’s according to Royston City Manager Ed Andrews and Royston City Mayor David Jordan. Royston’s City Council meeting room was packed Tuesday night with citizens who attended a public hearing regarding Hartwell Railroad’s demands the city close the […]

The City of Lavonia is in the final stages of putting together plans for a memorial bench at the location of the old Spring St. Elementary school. Back in January, two residents of the Springview Heights Community, Barbara Clark and Jamie Richards told the Council they wanted to erect a marker on the lot where the school once stood.  Richards […]

U.S. Representative Doug Collins has chosen his winner for this year’s 2015 Congressional Art Competition. He is Jacob Ivey of White County. Ivey is a high school senior who is home-schooled.  His work will hang in the U.S. Capitol. Collins announced the winner Sunday at his Gainesville office during a special reception. The contestants’ families, as well as Rep. Collins’ […]

By Charlie Bauder, WNEG Radio, Toccoa The City of Toccoa is condeming two more city hotels. Monday, Toccoa officials announced that the Budget Inn and Toccoa Motel, both located on Currahee Street, were inspected on May 4 and found as unfit for human habitation. City officials said that after being notified of the violations, the owner of Budget Inn and […]

  A man is dead and a woman and her infant are in critical condition after a three-car wreck in Stephens County Tuesday. It happened Tuesday morning at about 9:30a on SR106 southbound near Lawhouse Road. According to the Georgia State Patrol Toccoa Post, it appears a truck crossed the center line and hit an SUV head-on. The SUV was […]