There’s Hope For The Hungry at South Summerville Baptist Church has been
cancelled for Wednesday, February 17th.
All Georgia Department of Public Health Northwest Health District offices, including the district office in Rome and all ten county health departments, will be closed today, Tuesday, February 16, and will open tomorrow. Wednesday, February 17, at regular operating hours.
Due to the hazardous road conditions caused by black ice on many of the communities back roads, Trion City Schools will be closed on Feb. 16, 2021.
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Tuesday February 16, 2021:
Both the Trion and Chattooga Region basketball games, scheduled for today, has been postponed until Wednesday.
Georgia gas prices increased at the pump compared to a week ago. Georgia motorists are now paying an average price of $2.33 per gallon for regular unleaded gasoline. Monday’s state average is 5 cents more than a week ago, 12 cents more than last month, and 6 cents more than this time last year.
He was the first person ever convicted of murder in Georgia with no body being found. Earlier this month, the story of how Colvin Cornelius “Butch” Hinton III murdered a Emory University student in the 1990’s was the subject of a NBC “Dateline” episode.
A Gaylesville, Alabama man was taken into custody Sunday evening by Sheriff’s Office investigators following a shooting incident in Jamestown, Alabama.
Cherokee County Chief Deputy Josh Summerford that deputies had responded to a residence on County Road 15 after receiving a 9-1-1 call that a minor had been shot.
Sixty-three-year-old Alvin Glen Wright was booked into the Cherokee County Detention Center on the charge of second-degree assault. According to a News Release from the Sheriff’s Office – Wright, who is a neighbor, shot into a surrounding patch of woods.
Floyd EMS transported a thirteen-year-old female victim to a local hospital for treatment; no additional information regarding her condition has been made available.
Wright is currently being held without Bond.
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Chattooga County Probate Judge Gary Woods says that a glitch in the GBI’s fingerprinting system led to a temporary halt of gun carry permits, but that the glitch has been resolved and carry permit applications are being processed by the Chattooga County Probate Court.