Category: News

By Charlie Bauder, WNEG Radio, Toccoa The City of Toccoa continues to make progress on improvements out at the Pines golf course. Last month, city commissioners unanimously approved spending $25,000 to move the large metal maintenance building at the golf course from its current location by the Pro Shop to a new location adjacent to a small maintenance building elsewhere […]

The Franklin County Middle School chapter of the Technology Student Association is the best in the State. Last month, the Chapter again won the Georgia Outstanding Chapter Award at the annual TSA Convention in Athens. It’s the 23rd time in its 28 year history that Franklin County has taken that trophy home. The two-day convention was held at the Classic […]

By Charlie Bauder, WNEG Radio, Toccoa The first public hearing on the proposed closing of Eastanollee Elementary School shows a split in opinions and a lot of questions. Hundreds were at the Tugaloo Center for the Performing Arts at Stephens County High School Monday for the first of two public hearings on the proposed closing of Eastanollee Elementary. Many of […]

In Elbert County, Bowman Mayor Pete Gibbons’ April Fool’s press release is getting noticed in Atlanta and that’s just what he was hoping for. Gibbons issued a press release Wednesday announcing the village of Bowman had struck a deal with soft drink giant Coca-Cola to build a bottling plant. “A lot of folks have been generating publicity like this, such […]

The weather should be just right Saturday for a morning of Easter Egg hunting. Three local municipalities will be playing host to the Easter Bunny Saturday who will have hidden thousands of Easter Eggs. In Lavonia, the fun begins at 10a at the Gazebo in downtown Lavonia, according to Downtown Development Authority spokesperson Vivian Young. That will also be opening […]