Category: News

By Charlie Bauder, WNEG Radio, Toccoa Still no word on the identities of three people who died Friday night when their car was struck by an Amtrak train in Stephens County. It happened about 9:45p Friday night when the Amtrak Crescent t-boned the vehicle on Grant Smith Road near the Summit subdivision, according to Stephens County Sheriff Randy Shirley. “The […]

It could be some weeks before efforts to work out a policy for how private water wells are adopted and used by Franklin County. At their work session last week, Franklin County Board of Commissioners spent a half hour discussing the existing policy and whether it should be amended. Commissioner Clint Harper has requested a new policy after noting that […]

By Charlie Bauder, WNEG Radio, Toccoa In Toccoa, agents with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation have been called in to help police investigate the deaths two people found inside a home over the weekend. Toccoa Police Chief Tim Jarrell said the bodies were found Saturday.   Jarrell is releasing few details about the deaths and would not say if the deaths […]

Carnesville resident, Leslie McFarlin, a Mathematics Instructor at North Georgia Technical College, is the first runner-up for the Technical College System of Georgia’s (TCSG) Rick Perkins Instructor of the Year Award for 2013. TCSG Commissioner Ron Jackson made the announcement during a banquet for the system’s top instructors and students at the Renaissance Waverly Hotel in Atlanta on April 25. […]

The Georgia DOT plans some road work in several Northeast Georgia counties this week. Franklin – a crew will repair and restore the grass shoulders alongside SR 51. Hart and Madison – Vegetation will be trimmed in rights of way alongside and drainage structures will be cleaned on SR 172, a crew will repair edge ruts alongside SR 77 Spur […]