The University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service will conduct a workshop for small farmers Wednesday, Feb. 3 at the Bartow County Extension office in Cartersville. The program is called ‘Too Much to Mow, What Do I Grow?’

Scott Cagle will be the keynote speaker. Cagle specializes in agri-tourism and will speak to participants about programs ranging from farm mazes to pick your own pumpkin patches.

Pre-registration is required prior to Wednesday, Jan. 27. The cost for the workshop is $10.

Checks should be made out to Rolling Hills RC&D Council and sent to Rolling Hills at 512 Main St., Cedartown, Ga. 30125.

DADE COUNTY AUTHORITIES ARE INVESTIGATING WHAT APPEARS TO BE A MURDER – SUICIDE.  46 YEAR OLD CYNTHIA HARRIS AND 51 YEAR OLD CLIFFORD HUBBARD… A COUPLE FROM FLORIDA… WERE FOUND SHOT TO DEATH FRIDAY EVENING AT A HOME IN THE SAND MOUNTAIN AREA.  THE COUPLE’S TWO DOGS WERE ALSO SHOT DEAD.  THE INVESTIGATION IS CONTINUING, BUT THE DADE SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT SAYS IT APPEARS MR. HUBBARD SHOT MS. HARRIS AND THE DOGS, BEFORE TURNING THE GUN ON HIMSELF.

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Highway 337 north of Menlo, commonly known as Broomtown Road, has been closed by the Georgia Department of Transportation.

According to information received by AM 1180 Chattooga County Radio, a culvert has washed out of the road in the Shinbone Valley Road area which has caused the road to sink about 8 inches. 

Chattooga County Sheriff John Everett is advising alternate routes in the area until the road can be fixed.  The state will assess the problem on Monday and hopefuly be able to make quick repairs.  Residents of Menlo and Cloudland use Highway 337 as an access to LaFayette – especially people that work at Bluebird and Roper.

For Cloudland residents it is just one more road that is closed that goes to LaFayette. Daughtery Gap Road on the mountain remains closed and has been since the September 2009 floods.  Walker County Commissioner Bebe Heiskel has said it will take around $2 Million to repair roads damaged from the flood of 2009 – money Walker County doesn’t have.

Cloudland residents that work in LaFayette will have to take Highway 157 up the mountain to Highway 136 or drive through Summerville until Highway 337 is repaired.

Listed as cited or arrested in the past 24 hours according to the docket records of the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Dept.:

Jeffrey Lyn Teague-41-Summerville-Disorderly Conduct

Concepcion Gabriel Reynoso-24-Trion-Disorderly Conduct

Misty Dawn Treadaway-24-Trion-Weekend Sentence

Coy Randall Womack-17-Summerville-Simple Battery

THE CITY OF LAFAYETTE IS SEEKING BIDS ON A NEW METAL ROOF FOR THE PUBLIC SAFETY BUILDING.  ROOF LEAKS FROM RECENT FLOODS HAVE CAUSED EXTENSIVE DAMAGE THROUGHOUT THE FORMER COCA-COLA PLANT… AND FIRE PERSONNEL ARE CONCERNED ABOUT SLEEPING THERE OVERNIGHT DUE TO MOLD CONTAMINATION. THEIR BUNKS HAVE ALREADY BEEN DISPOSED-OF DUE TO WATER DAMAGE.  PUBLIC SAFETY DIRECTOR TOMMY FREEMAN ASKED FOR THE COUNCIL’S INPUT ON THE TYPE OF ROOF REPAIR MONDAY NIGHT… AND HE WAS ADVISED TO GET SPECIFICATIONS FOR A NEW METAL ROOF SYSTEM FOR THE BUILDING.  FEMA HAS AWARDED THE DEPARTMENT $9,500 FOR REPAIR TO THE BUILDING’S INTERIOR… BUT THAT WORK CAN’T BE DONE UNTIL THE ROOF LEAKS ARE FIXED… FREEMAN SAID.

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Emergency workers were called to the scene of an accident on Saturday afternoon around 4:45 PM on Lyerly Dam Road.  According to reports the one vehicle accident left a local man with compound fractures to his leg.  AM 1180 Chattooga County Radio will have more information as it becomes available.

Authorities have been notified that an airplane reported to have run low on fuel safely made an emergency landing at Richard B. Russell Regional Airport at 6:45 p.m. Saturday. The pilot notified airport authorities that he was critically low on fuel with two passengers on board.

The Rome Fire Department and other emergency personnel were notified and were standing by.  There were no problems as the plane landed and re-fueled.

"PERSON OF INTEREST" IN THE I-75 TRUCKER SHOOTING HAS BEEN ARRESTED… AND HE’S ALSO ONE OF THE SUSPECTS IN RECENT VEHICLE THEFTS FROM A RINGGOLD CAR DEALERSHIP. 

17 YEAR OLD ALEXANDER COLE BUTLER OF RINGGOLD WAS CHARGED BY THE CATOOSA COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT WITH AGGRAVATED ASSAULT IN FIRING THE BULLET THAT HIT A FLORIDA TRUCKER IN DECEMBER.  GEORGE MCKEEVER IS RECOVERING FROM HIS INJURIES AT HIS HOME IN FLORIDA. THE PASSENGER WINDOW IN HIS TRUCK CAB WAS SMASHED BY THE BULLET, WHICH STRUCK HIM IN THE ARM.
EARLIER CHARGES AGAINST BUTLER INCLUDE BURGLARY AND THEFT BY RECEIVING STOLEN PROPERTY.  THOSE CHARGES STEM FROM A BREAK-IN AT AN AREA SPORTING GOOD STORE, WHERE SEVERAL GUNS AND OTHER WEAPONS WERE TAKEN. 

THE HANDGUN BELIEVED TO HAVE FIRED THE BULLET THAT STRUCK MCKEEVER IN HIS TRUCK, IS ONE OF THOSE STOLEN GUNS RECOVERED IN THE INVESTIGATION.  BUTLER IS ALSO ONE OF THE TEENS ARRESTED IN THE THEFT OF 200-THOUSAND DOLLARS WORTH OF CARS FROM RINGGOLD CHRYSLER IN DECEMBER.  A VIPER AND A JEEP WERE TOTALED AFTER THEY WERE STOLEN FROM THE CAR LOT.

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