Paradise Garden in Summerville will open the exhibition “Howard Finster Before He Painted: Wood Creations from the 50s to 70s” in the Garden’s Museum & Visitor Center today.
Mohawk Industries upgraded its polyethylene terephthalate (PET) washing plant in Summerville, Georgia, with the help of Amut, Novara, Italy, this past fall.
A horse was killed and several were injured in an accident in Rainsville, Alabama after a car collided with a wagon being driven by Mennonites. Rainsville, Alabama Police are reminding motorists that horse-drawn vehicles have the same rights as automobiles on state and county roads.
The Trion Recreation Department is closing early today to travel for District Tournaments. The Spring Sports deadline has now been extended to Monday, February 20th. The age control date for spring sports is September 1, 2023. A copy of the child’s birth certificate needs to be on file. If you need more information, you can contact the Trion Recreation Department at 706-734-2011
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Friday, February 17, 2023:
The Chattooga County Land Development Commission has set a public meeting to give the final approval on the Atrium Health Floyd freestanding emergency room that is being built next to Walmart in Trion.
A thirty-year-old Cartersville man who died in a motorcycle wreck earlier this week in Rome had attended Trion City Schools. The Georgia State Patrol has determined that there were three vehicles involved in that accident.
The Internal Revenue Service says that Georgia residents who received state-issued relief checks in 2022 will not have to report that money as income when they file their income taxes. Officials say they won’t challenge the taxability of payments associated with general welfare and disaster, which would include the refunds received by many Georgia residents last year. The guidance comes several days after the federal government recommended Georgians who received those payments hold off on filing their taxes. Now that the decision has been made, the Internal Revenue Service wants people to move forward with their income tax filings. Residents of Georgia, Massachusetts, South Carolina and Virginia will not owe federal income tax on their special state payments as long as those payments were a refund of state taxes they paid and for which they “claimed the standard deduction or itemized their deductions but did not receive a tax benefit (for example, because the $10,000 tax deduction limit applied).”
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A Georgia lawmaker is working to protect the rights of renters, especially those who find themselves in unacceptable living conditions. Without rent control measures in the state, renters can pay steep prices to rent their home and state laws don’t always protect them from a lack of heat, lack of air conditioning, lack of water, or broken appliances. A proposed bill from State Representative Marvin Lim would aim to clarify what qualifies as livable rental housing. Rep. Lim says his bill specifies standard upkeep and repairs that landlords should address as well as acceptable conditions related to things like garbage, plumbing, and water supply. A different bill in the General Assembly would require some landlords to compile data on serious crimes and report that data to tenants and prospective tenants.
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The number of reported COVID-19 cases in Chattooga County dropped from seven to five over the past week, according to numbers released on Wednesday by the Georgia Department of Public Health. While the number of COVID-19 cases were down in most of Northwest Georgia over the past week, there were two deaths reported – one each in Polk and Floyd Counties. The Georgia Department of Public Health moved from a daily reporting system to a weekly reporting system last year.