A thirty-seven year old Summerville woman was arrested on drug charges this week after a traffic stop by Chattooga County Sheriff’s Deputies.

Mildred Jean Watkins of a Sloppy Floyd Lake Road address was traveling on Highway 48 in Summerville on Tuesday of this week when a passing deputy noticed her vehicle had a shattered windshield.  When the woman was stopped she was looking through her glove box for a valid insurance card when deputies noticed several knives.  The deputies told the woman to step out of the vehicle because of the weapons. It was then that deputies noticed a clear plastic bag with suspected methamphetamine inside. 

Watkins was subsequently arrested on several drug charges and booked into the Chattooga County Jail.

People often receive “checks” in the mail from unknown sources and most of the time those “check” wind up being fake and part of a scam.  A Trion woman reported what appears to have been one of the fraudulent checks to the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Department on Tuesday of this week.

The Longhollow Road woman said that she got the check on October 19^th from a “Jack Miller” in Pennsylvania.  The check was for $10,000 and was from “Liverpool Community Bank.”  The woman said that she had not received any phone calls or applied for any offers.

The case is being investigated.

…FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TO 9 AM EDT

FRIDAY…

…FREEZE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM LATE FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH

SATURDAY MORNING…

* LOCATIONS…MAINLY ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM CARROLLTON

  TO CLEVELAND.

* TEMPERATURES…IN THE LOWER TO MID 30S TONIGHT AND MAINLY IN THE

  UPPER 20S TO LOWER 30S WITH ISOLATED AREAS IN THE MID 20S FRIDAY NIGHT.

* TIMING…4 AM TO 9 AM TONIGHT AND 2 AM TO 10 AM FRIDAY NIGHT AND

  SATURDAY MORNING.

* IMPACTS…THOSE WITH SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS SHOULD MAKE

  PREPARATIONS TO PROTECT VEGETATION.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS EXPECTED. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR

PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED.

A FREEZE WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR A FREEZE EVENT

IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. THOSE WITH AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS

IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD MAKE PREPARATIONS TO PROTECT SENSITIVE

VEGETATION AND YOUNG TREES.

Coming up tomorrow at Dowdy Park it will be the fourth annual Chattooga Hometown Cook-Off as part of the Steam into Summerville Railroad Days activities.  Each Saturday during the month of October a different event takes place in the park for visitors that come in on the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum steam train and locals alike.

The Hometown Cook-Off is a fundraiser for “The Well” in Summerville, a home for women.  More than $2,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to the backyard cooking teams on Saturday.  Also each team that participates receives a $25 discount voucher for the upcoming KCBS Professional Cook-Off in April that will be held in Summerville.

Cooking categories include chicken, pork and pork ribs. For the People’s Choice, a Boston butt will be provided to each participant.

Winning categories will be Grand Champion, $400; first place in each category, $300; second place in each category, $200; third place in each category, $100 and People’s Choice Award, a trophy.

For details contact Roxie Weesner at 706-506-9514

According to Georgia Farm Bureau, a referendum is planned to determine whether cattle producers will fund the Georgia Agricultural Commodity Commission for Beef by an assessment paid by producers to fund research, promotion, and education about the beef industry.  The assessment can be no more than $1/head to be collected when cattle are sold.
 
A producer is eligible to vote in the referendum if the producer has owned cattle, including dairy cattle, in Georgia within the last twelve months.  There is no cost to receive a ballot.
 
The sign up period to receive a ballot expires on December 31, 2013.  To receive a ballot, go to the Georgia Department of Agriculture website by clicking the following link www.agr.georgia.gov/beef-commission.aspx  and complete the online form.
 
For producers who register, ballots and additional information will be mailed to their home address sometime after January 1, 2014.
 
Georgia Farm Bureau is encouraging  all cattle producers to register to vote in the referendum.  Farm Bureau takes no position regarding whether producers vote to support or oppose the checkoff.  The checkoff is producer money, and producers should decide the issue.
 

. FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM EDT THIS MORNING… … FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TO 9 AM EDT FRIDAY… … FREEZE WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING…

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY… WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TO 9 AM EDT FRIDAY. A FREEZE WATCH HAS ALSO BEEN ISSUED. THIS FREEZE WATCH IS IN EFFECT FROM LATE FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING.

* LOCATIONS… MAINLY ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM CARROLLTON TO CLEVELAND.

* TEMPERATURES… LOW TO MID 30S THIS MORNING AND FRIDAY… AND BELOW FREEZING ON SATURDAY MORNING.

* TIMING… EACH MORNING FROM 2AM TO 9AM.

* IMPACTS… THOSE WITH SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS SHOULD MAKE PREPARATIONS TO PROTECT VEGETATION.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT FROST IS EXPECTED. SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED.

A FREEZE WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR A FREEZE EVENT IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. THOSE WITH AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD MAKE PREPARATIONS TO PROTECT SENSITIVE VEGETATION AND YOUNG TREES.

The National Weather Service 

The Chattooga County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the stabbing of a Chattooga County man that was reported on Tuesday of this week.

An officer at Redmond Regional Medical Center in Rome contacted the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Department and said that Billy Lamar Gilreath came to the emergency room with a stab wound and reported that he had been stabbed in Chattooga County.

Gilreath would not say anything to the officer at Redmond about the incident but a friend who brought him to the hospital told police that Gilreath had showed up at his house around 3 AM and told the friend that he had been at a party on the 1800 block of Mahan Road in Summerville.  Gilreath had reportedly told the friend that he was sitting, listening to some music when someone came in and stabbed him in the thigh.

Gilreath suffered a wound to the thigh about two inches wide according to the sheriff’s report.  The incident remains under investigation.

Over the weekend a Chickamauga woman was arrested at Wal-Mart in Pennville after she was accused of shoplifting.  A deputy was called to the store after the store’s loss prevention clerk reported seeing forty-six year old Tabatha Moorehead of Chickamauga conceal a soldering iron in her jacket.  When the deputy detained the woman he also found a box of Nicorette clear patches.  The total amount of the items the woman was accused of taking was $54.94.  Morefield was arrested on shoplifting charges.

A stolen dirt bike was reported to the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Department on Sunday.  A Raines Circle man told a deputy that the bike had been left by his son beside the garage at the man’s home.  When the man’s other son came home Sunday they noticed the dirt bike missing.  The man told the deputy that he was inside his home the entire time and never heard or saw anything.  The dirt bike is a 2003 Kawasaki KDX200 with a 2 stroke engine with the colors of green, black, and white with an approximate value of $1,500. The dirt bike also has a tear down the right side of the bike and hasstickers all over. The serial number is JKADXNHC23DA02223.