Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Wednesday, August 17, 2022:
Georgia received federal approval last week to hand out food benefits to the youngest Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients. These recipients are children under the age of 6 years old.
Once again this year, Chattooga County agricultural students will be having a poultry show and auction at the Chattooga County Ag Fair.
WZQZ reported this week about the Summerville woman who was arrested by Floyd County authorities for making a bomb threat at the Floyd County Jail. Summerville Police say that when they went with Floyd County Sheriff’s Deputies to arrest Beth Neighbors on the terroristic threat charges, they also made an arrest for marijuana possession.
Summerville Police conducted a checkpoint on Saturday evening that resulted in several citations for misdemeanor marijuana possession. According to police reports, police cited three different people who produced small amounts of marijuana when questioned at the checkpoint. The checkpoint was conducted at the intersection of Penn Street and East Washington Street. Twenty-year-old Alissa Michelle Blackmon, thirty-year-old Xavier Martinique Lawrence and and thirty-one-year-old Dante Laneal Stewart were all cited for possession of marijuana less than one ounce.
Come out and support our Indians at their first home football game of the season Friday, August 19th @ 7:30pm.
-Each CHS Student can purchase a student ticket at school for $6 until the end of lunch shifts on Friday.
-Advance “Cash Sale” Tickets can be purchased at the CHS front office, Pay-N-Tote or Summerville Nutrition until gametime on Friday for $8.
-Purchase tickets online at GoFan (see QR Code and/or link) until half-time of the game ($8 + processing fee)
-No cash sales at the gate
A Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC) Aviation Maintenance Technology student, who overcame a battle with depression, is looking at a bright career horizon after receiving a scholarship from the mikeroweWORKS Foundation.
A Cartersville man was cited by Summerville Police at a local motel after he was told not to leave his room because he had been drinking heavily. Police say that sixty-year-old Scott Evan Lasky was told to stay in his room but wandered into the parking lot of the motel and attempted to enter the vehicle of the motel owner. The owner called police who say that Lasky was found banging on the bumper of the vehicle when they arrived. Lasky was cited for public intoxication and entering a vehicle and was taken to the Chattooga County Jail.
The Georgia Department of Public Health Northwest Health District has received limited doses of monkeypox vaccine as part of the distribution of federally funded JYNNEOSTM vaccine to public health districts throughout Georgia. These vaccines are available at no cost to the individual. However, due to a limited number of doses, the vaccines are available online by appointment only, depending on supply, and only for people who are currently eligible for the vaccine.