Category: News

A happy ending over the weekend for a Franklin County family whose German Shepherd went missing last week after a bad wreck on I-85. Last Monday, Karen Love and her husband were on their way back to Atlanta from their home on Lake Hartwell with their son’s dog Georgia when they were hit by a drunk driver. Their SUV flipped […]

They are weird looking little creatures and Northeast Georgia is being invaded by them. You may have wondered what that stinky, little brown square bug is that has suddenly turned up in your house. Well it’s a Brown Marmorated Stink Bug, and now the University of Georgia Extension Service wants to know how many there are in our area. The […]

By Charlie Bauder, WNEG Radio, Toccoa All charges are being dropped against the teacher at the center of last Fall’s controversy around procedures performed in a Stephens County High School class. That is according to Toccoa-Stephens County Humane Shelter Director Jeff Roberts, who says that other agencies, including the state, said they would not investigate the matter. Stephens County High […]

North Georgia Technical College’s Alumni Awards Luncheon and Annual Meeting are coming up in June and nominations are currently being sought the school’s annual Career Achievement, Young Alumni, and Hall of Fame awards. The awards will be handed out at the luncheon on Saturday, June 13. New this year, the Alumni will also be recognizing an outstanding supporter of North […]

House Bill 170, the Transportation Funding Act of 2015 is back in conference committee after being passed last week in the Senate.  The bill barely cleared the Senate last Friday.  In a final vote, the Senate passed HB170 by a narrow 29 yes to 25 no vote. However, the bill passed in the Senate with numerous changes and substitutes, which […]