Category: News

During The Toccoa City Commission meeting earlier this week, departing commissioner and mayor David Austin delivered the city’s annual report, highlighting Toccoa’s accomplishments over the past 12 months.  Austin did not run for re-election to his commission seat in the recent elections, and Monday was his last meeting on the commission after more than 24 years of service. 

Earlier this week, Stephens County Hospital Foundation announced 4th grade Toccoa Elementary student Macey Frady, 10, as the winner of the annual Christmas Card contest.  At a presentation Monday morning at Toccoa Elementary, school and hospital officials joined Frady’s family in congratulating her on her winning drawing that will serve as the front of the Hospital’s 2023 Christmas Card. With […]

Stephens County Recreation Director Chris Rainey was named as Stephens County’s 2023 Employee of the Year. Stephens County Administrator Christian Hamilton announced the award.  The 2022 Employee of the Year was Buildings and Grounds Supervisor Mitty Higginbotham. Also at Tuesday’s Stephens County Board of Commissioners meeting, 2024 appointments of board members to local and regional boards and committees were approved  […]

Toccoa Falls College recently published its 2023 End-of-Year Reflections, looking back at the accomplishments and benchmarks of the past 12 months. Included in the year’s highlights were U.S. News & World Report ranking of Toccoa Falls College one of the Best Regional College in the South, ranked at #30, a Best Value School with a national ranking of 11, and […]

Due to heavy rains this past Saturday, The Toccoa Night of Lights Christmas Parade was rescheduled to tonight, Dec. 14.  According to the National Weather Service, the forecast for tonight calls for clear weather with 0% chance of rain and temperatures in the mid-40s at 5 p.m. dropping to 42 degrees at 8 p.m. Floats will begin lining up at […]

Yesterday afternoon, local law enforcement officials as well as Hart and Franklin County deputies and Georgia State Patrol Troopers spent several hours scouring the woods off of Highway 106 near Old Mize Road, looking for a suspect that Stephen County Sheriff Randy Shirley described in a post on Facebook as “armed and dangerous.” This morning, Shirley released information regarding the […]

93.1 FM and AM-630 WNEG delivered beautiful poinsettias to area care centers on Wednesday. “Project Poinsettia” is supported by 1st Franklin Financial, Stephens County Hospital, Good’s Home Furnishings, and Lowe’s of Cornelia. Pictured below: Clary Care Center residents Dell Kehm and Freda Thomason and WNEG’s Phil Hobbs, Bella Barnhart, and Ken Brady.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District, Forest, Fish, and Wildlife Section will accept real Christmas Trees for recycling as fish habitat at J. Strom Thurmond Lake from Dec. 18, 2023, through Jan. 14, 2024, and at Hartwell Dam and Lake Project from Dec. 26, 2023, through Jan. 26, 2024. Artificial trees will not be accepted. Real trees may […]

At last night’s Stephens County Board of Commissioners meeting, Board members unanimously voted Tara Simmons, Post 1, as the board chair for 2024, and Chris Rickman, Post 4, as vice chair for the coming year.  Following the meeting, Rickman told WNEG News he is excited for the opportunity. He added that serving as a board member has been a learning […]

Yesterday afternoon, local law enforcement officials as well as Hart and Franklin County deputies and Georgia State Patrol Troopers spent several hours scouring the woods off of Highway 106 near Old Mize Road, looking for a suspect that Stephen County Sheriff Randy Shirley described in a post on Facebook as “armed and dangerous.” In the social media post, made at […]