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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Hartwell Lake Office continues to accept natural Christmas trees for recycling. As they do every year at this time, the Hartwell Lake Office will accept them through January 26. Jess Fleming is the Corps’ Natural Resources Specialist at Hartwell Lake. Fleming said the trees are tied in bundles, weighted with concrete anchors, submerged in […]

A Toccoa woman has been arrested by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. The GBI arrested Corinna Crumpton, 30, in reference to an investigation that began in December of 2021 at the request of the Hartwell Police Department. Agents charged Crumpton on January 4, 2022, with sexual assault and electronically furnishing obscene materials to a minor, both felony charges. The crimes, […]

The Georgia Department of Public Health is reporting 114 COVID-related deaths in Stephens County with 4,779 residents testing positive for the virus, since the beginning of the global pandemic. In Stephens County there has been a total of 361 hospitalizations due to the virus since the start of the pandemic. The latest report was released Tuesday afternoon. In the last […]

Dr. Constance Franklin is the new Superintendent of Stephens County Schools. The decision was made on Tuesday during the Stephens County Board of Education’s Special Called Meeting. Vice-Chair Rod Moore made a motion recommending Franklin for the position with Board Member Kay Reed seconding the motion. The motion was approved unanimously. Chairman Jim Bellamy explained that Franklin’s start date would […]

The annual Pre-Legislative Coffee event will be held this week in Stephens County. On Thursday, State House Representative for District 32 Chris Erwin and 50th District State Senator Bo Hatchett will meet with local business leaders and community members to discuss the issues facing the Georgia General Assembly when the session opens January 10, 2022. The Toccoa-Stephens County Chamber of […]

The monthly meeting of the Board of Elections and Registration for Stephens County has been canceled. The meeting was originally scheduled to be held this evening. According to Election Supervisor April Roberts, the meeting has been canceled due to COVID issues. Roberts says a new date has yet to be set for the meeting. For questions regarding the cancelation, contact […]

Due to an overwhelming amount of data, the Department of Public Health was unable to release its Daily Covid Report on Monday, January 3. Here is the report from Friday, December 31. The Georgia Department of Public Health is reporting 114 COVID-related deaths in Stephens County with 4,717 residents testing positive for the virus, since the beginning of the global […]

The Stephens County Board of Commissioners’ meeting scheduled for January 11, 2022, has been canceled due to rising concerns for the spread of COVID-19. Stephens County Administrator Phyllis Ayers made the announcement on Monday. She says the cancelation is due to COVID related issues. At this time, the Stephens County Board of Commissioners’ meeting scheduled for January 25, will still […]

January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. District 2 Public Health recently issued a press release encouraging all women to seek out routine cervical cancer screenings beginning at age 21. According to the release, all women are at risk for cervical cancer, most often occurring in women over age 30. The main cause of cervical cancer is caused by an infection […]

Multiple trees are down in Stephens, Franklin, and Hart counties. Hart EMC is now reporting just over 700 power outages in their coverage area. Most of those are in Stephens County with 644 outages reported as of 8:00 a.m. Georgia Power is reporting outages in Toccoa, Lavonia, and Hartwell. WNEG’s sister station WLHR spoke to a local firefighter who is […]