Category: News

The Lavonia Downtown Development Authority is gearing up for another year of events all designed to showcase the town and what it has to offer. Lavonia’s theme is Big Time, Small Town and the DDA has a long list of events coming up in 2015 that they hope will a big time for everybody. At their regular meeting this week, […]

U.S. Representative Doug Collins is speaking out against what he is calling foot dragging by the White House in Jordan’s plea for help fighting ISIS. Jordan began airstrikes against ISIS strongholds yesterday in retaliation for the burning death of a Jordanian military pilot. King Abdullah was in Washington this week asking for more aid in his fight against the terrorist […]

A Hartwell man faces multiple charges after a high-speed chase in Toccoa last weekend. According to a Toccoa Police incident report, an officer observed a white SUV failing to maintain its lane early last Saturday morning, as it headed south on SR17. The officer reports that after he activated his blue lights and siren, the vehicle sped up to a […]

By Charlie Bauder, WNEG Radio, Toccoa The Northeast Georgia Regional Library System is looking at the possibility of a partnership with the Toccoa-Stephens County Library to make it a central headquarters location for the region. Northeast Georgia Regional Library System Regional Director Delana Knight said that the regional board has approved such a preliminary plan based on a number of […]

Members of the House of Representatives have voted unanimously to approve amendments to the state budget for the remainder of fiscal year 2015, which ends June 30. “Those changes will add $276 million worth of appropriations, 70 percent of which is devoted to education,”  State Representative Alan Powellsaid. Powell said of that, $128.5 million will go to local school systems […]