The low-income home cooling assistance program opens today for home-bound and elderly households in our area. Households must meet income criteria and be responsible for paying the cost of home cooling this Summer.
Georgia’s Labor Commissioner Mark Butler said on Thursday that the number of workers in Georgia showed some improvement during the month of February.
A traffic stop after a failure to yield incident lead to the arrest of a thirty-three-year-old Summerville woman recently. A Chattooga County sheriff’s deputy observed a vehicle being driven by Brittany Bullard fail to yield to an oncoming vehicle near Montgomery Street in Summerville. After a traffic stop, the deputy determined that Bullard’s license was suspended. Bulldard was arrested for operating a vehicle with a suspended license and failure to maintain a single lane. Bullard was transported to the Chattooga County Jail.
Friends, family and the community gathered in the Auditorium at Georgia Northwestern Technical College’s (GNTC) Gordon County Campus to honor nine students graduating from Basic POST Certification Class BPC1 #2022-01 on Thursday, March 24.
A twenty-six-year-old Centre, Alabama man, Alexander Preston Brown, was arrested in Rome this week after reports said he ran from police after wrecking in Cave Spring, leaving his injured girlfriend behind.
A thirty-nine-year old Trion man is facing multiple charges after he shut the door in the face of deputies and then refused to leave a residence. Later, the suspect refused to get out of the patrol car when he arrived at the Chattooga County Jail.
The Chattooga County Department of Family and Children Services still has an opening for a TANF ES position. Please see the information below:
Listen to the Friday morning devotion from the Lyerly United Methodist Church by clicking the link below. You can also hear the devotion each weekday on 99.1FM & AM1180 WZQZ
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Friday, April 1, 2022:
The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) Drug Surveillance Unit has received increased reports of overdoses due to drugs mixed with fentanyl, particularly cocaine, methamphetamine, and counterfeit pills. Overdoses have been reported in several areas of the state over the past month.