Category: News

Toccoa Community Development Director Connie Tabor was recently recognized at Georgia Downtown Association’s awards ceremony at the Georgia Downtown Conference, where Tabor was awarded the “Main Street Hero” award of Excellence.  A press release on the award states, “Tabor pioneered the management of Downtown Toccoa’s Main Street Program, created in 1990, when she was designated as Toccoa’s first Main Street […]

Toccoa-Stephens County Chamber of Commerce and area citizens welcomed the new owners at the Chevrolet dealership on Big A Road, now named Lake Hartwell Chevrolet.  Toccoa-Stephens County Chamber of Commerce President Julie Paysen welcomed the new owners, Dustin Wellborn and Sebastian Jung, both to the community and as new members of the Chamber of Commerce.   Wellborn said they were excited […]

The Toccoa City Commission meeting set for September 11 has been rescheduled. This meeting will now take place on Monday, September 18, at 5 p.m. in the Commission Courtroom at Toccoa City Hall. The agenda for this meeting has not yet been published. Also, the Downtown Development Authority has announced that they will meet at 8 a.m. this Friday, September […]

Monday afternoon, at approximately 1 p.m., a citizen contacted local law enforcement officials in Lavonia to report the discovery of a deceased individual.  The citizen had been checking wildlife cameras in the vicinity of David Avenue at the time of the discovery.  Lavonia Police officers responded to the scene, as well as the Franklin County Coroner’s Office and the Georgia […]

Traffic crashes across Georgia during the Labor Day holiday travel period resulted in 20 traffic deaths, according to preliminary Georgia Department of Public Safety numbers. The holiday travel period began Friday, September 1, at 6 p.m., and ended Monday, September 4, at 11:59 p.m. The Georgia Department of Public Safety issued the first holiday traffic fatality report on Saturday morning […]

A 2-car collision Friday evening at Hwy 106/Mize Road and the Hwy 17 Bypass left one dead, and sent four local residents to the hospital. Just before 9 p.m.,Lacitrus Gholston, 33, of Toccoa, was driving northbound on GA106/Mize Road, near the intersection with the Highway 17 Bypass, at a high rate of speed when he failed to maintain his lane […]

Local Salvation Army Director Rebecca Dixon and two volunteers are in Tifton, Georgia to help victims of Hurricane Idalia as they begin to recover from the storm. Dixon said she, along with Gary Vance from Lavonia and Cheryl Cook from Rabun County, were deployed Thursday and will be in South Georgia and parts of Florida for the next 14 days. […]

Six local entrepreneurs have made the leap from an online presence to a real-world, physical enterprise, with the help of the Toccoa-Stephens County Chamber of Commerce’s new program, the Small Business Incubator Program. Chamber President Julie Paysen explained the purpose of the program, stating, “Our mission is to identify, engage and provide support for high-growth entrepreneurs and their teams as […]

At the August 28 meeting of the Toccoa City Commission, commissioners approved moratoriums on the issuance of three different sectors of city licensing or permitting. First, commissioners unanimously approved a moratorium on the issuance of any new retail alcohol beverage licenses for package sales of distilled spirits. The moratorium will not impact businesses seeking licensing for the sale of beer […]

As summer comes to an end and thousands of Georgians hit the road to celebrate the Labor Day holiday, the Georgia Department of Public Safety reminds motorists that Georgia State Patrol troopers and Motor Carrier Compliance Division officers will conduct highly visible patrols on interstates and secondary roads, looking for unsafe behaviors that put travelers at risk. During the 2022 […]