Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Friday, April 22, 2022:
An arrest has been made in the murder of a man whose body was found in a large toolbox in Polk County in March.
Georgia is taking steps to ensure the emerging sustainable development carbon market is open to the state’s forests. A special technical advisory committee has been seated to help build Georgia’s Sustainable Development Carbon Registry. The action will supplement Georgia’s existing voluntary Carbon Registry by tracking the amount of carbon stored in commercial construction projects and also making life cycle assessments to measure all carbon impacts from raw material extraction to the building material’s final disposal. Carbon credits can then be quantified and awarded through the voluntary Registry.
A Flintstone man was charged by LaFayette Police after a traffic stop for an illegal “Drive Out” tag.
The Town of Trion is encouraging the town’s residents to “clean up” for spring by offering a free dumpster starting next Monday.
Kurt Stuenkel, president of Atrium Health Floyd, says that he is “feeling good” about the hospital’s prospects concerning a free-standing emergency room in Chattooga County.
A man has been charged in connection with a wreck back on January 26 on Alabama Highway at Highway 100 in Floyd County that left two people with serious injuries.
The president of the largest labor union in the United States, the National Education Association, is praising the four-day school week. The union’s president was in Polk County this week, where they have implemented the four-day school week with schools being closed on Monday. That’s the same calendar that has been adopted by the Chattooga Board of Education.
A thirty-eight-year-old Rockmart woman has been arrested on a felony warrant charging her with the prohibited possession of certain goods for youth without the authorization of the juvenile detention center director.