BY LANG STORY THE NORTHEAST GEORGIAN Habersham County Parks and Recreation athletic coordinator Todd Mayfield has already been recognized at the state level for his work when he held the same position ...

Toccoa police officers have completed a pair of training courses recently. Four Toccoa officers graduated from a field sobriety testing course. Police chief Jimmy Mize said officers Ryan Brown, Tim ...

The Toccoa 10-under all-star baseball team escaped a last-inning bases-loaded jam to win the District 7 championship last week. Toccoa faced a bases loaded situa ...

The Georgia State Patrol has promoted Elbert County native Donnie O’Neal Saddler to Post Commander at Georgia State Patrol Post 7 in Toccoa. Saddler began his career with the Georgia Department of ...

By Phil Hudgins Retired CNI editor Myles Robert Godfrey and I were in diapers the first time we met. I think Myles had soiled his, but I didn’t say anything. After all, he was just a month old. I was ...

Main Street Toccoa is launching a new Shop Local program to bring more money and attention to independent small businesses in the area. The soon-to-launch Community Gift Card will be called the ...

Sometimes, you leave your hometown only to find yourself coming back years later. That was the case for the Brent and Katherine Sanders, who were born and raised in Stephens County and returned more ...

Stephens County sheriff’s deputies last week chased a vehicle into South Carolina at speeds up to 100 mph on the two-lane highway Stephens County Sheriff Randy Shirley said that on Wednesday, Feb. 3 ...

After a long absence, people saw Lions on the prowl Saturday morning, June 13 along Falls Road between Broad Street and the entrance to Toccoa Falls College and the hospital. People actually stopped ...

BY MARIE T. COCHRAN SPECIAL TO THE TOCCOA RECORD We continue the 45th anniversary of President Jimmy Carter’s declaration of June as Black Music Month and show ...

The 2021 Senior 4-H Project Achievement winners representing Stephens County 4-H at the state competition and 4-H State Congress, were (from left) Susan Yearwood, Stephens County 4-H Youth Development ...

Georgia Department of Natural Resources game warden T.R. Dooley, a resident of Stephens County, has been awarded the 2023 Georgia Torch Award. Each year, the Torch Award is presented by the Georgia ...