Authorities in Dalton arrested a Chattooga County man recently after he was accused of shoplifting.
The Center Post Community Center will host its free music night this Saturday August 20th and will begin at 7 PM. Center Post Community Center will welcome New Grass Express as well as Dr. Ted Scoggins performing on stage. Everyone is welcome to attend. The Community Center is located in Walker County, just north of the Teloga Community at 8125 Highway 337 LaFayette, Georgia.
More information has been released from the Floyd County Jail regarding a bomb threat that was called in by a Summerville woman last week.
Georgia gas prices continue to decline at the pump compared to a week ago. Georgia drivers are now paying an average price of $3.52 per gallon for regular unleaded gasoline (subject to change overnight). Monday’s state average was 11 cents less than a week ago, 59 cents less than a month ago, and 56 cents more than this time last year.
When federal workplace safety inspectors visited three Dollar General stores in Georgia earlier this year, they found exit routes obstructed, boxes of merchandise stacked unsafely and electrical panels hard to access, violations often cited at Dollar General locations.
MRS. DAPHENE J. ALLEN, age 98, of Walnut Street, Summerville, Georgia, passed away Sunday, August 14, 2022, in the local nursing home. Born on July 31, 1924, was a native of Jackson County, Alabama, and a daughter of the late Reuben and Effie Hilley Johnson. A member of South Summervile Baptist Church, Mrs. Allen worked for Montgomery Knitting Mill and retired from Oakview Nursing and Rehab. Center. In addition to Parents, was preceded in death by husband, the late Loren Howard Allen, son, the late Danny Allen, also three Brothers and two sisters died earlier.
Surviving are daughter, Aleta Kellett (Jimmy Barron); daughter-in-law, Betty Ann Allen; grandchildren, Heather Eagle, Kyle (Lori) Kellett, Stephanie Allen (Frank Winter), Jeff Pless; great grandchildren, Hayden and Taylor Eagle, Gracie Farmer, Kylor and Ruby Kellett, Rowan and Bridgette Wang; several Nieces, Nephews, and Cousins also survive.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, August 17th, at 4:00 P.M. from the South Summerville Baptist Church with Rev. Gene Greer and Rev. Doyle Waters officiating with eulogy by Heather Eagle, interment in Greenhills Memory Garden. Active Pallbearers Kyle Kellett, Kylor Kellett, Hayden Eagle, Taylor Eagle, Jeff Pless, and Frank Winter; Honorary Pallbearers the Staff of Oakview Nursing and Rehab. Center. Visitation will be Wednesday from 2 until 4 P.M. at the Church. Contributions may be made to the South Summerville Baptist Church.
Earle Rainwater Funeral Home in charge of arrangements for Mrs. Daphene J. Allen who passed away Sunday.
Homecoming will be this coming Sunday, August 21st, beginning at 10:30 Georgia time at Mount Calvary Baptist Church on Lookout Mountain. Brother Kevin Smith will preach the message, and Brother Glen Wilbanks and family will be the special singers. Everyone is invited. The Church is located at 10090 Cherokee County Road 103 on Lookout Mountain, just across the Georgia Line, South of Cloudland, GA.
One person died and eight families were displaced in a Saturday night fire at Carriage Hill Apartments in LaFayette. LaFayette Police report that arson is the cause and a suspect is in custody.
The Georgia Department of Corrections will be having a hiring even on Wednesday August 17th from 9am until 3pm at the Hays Recruiting Building at 777 Underwood Drive in Trion.
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Monday, August 15, 2022: