Howard Finster’s Paradise Garden in Summerville will host its annual two-day art festival, Finster Fest, this Saturday and Sunday, September 23rd and 24th.
On Sunday (9/17/23) at 2:03 p.m., Georgia State Patrol Troopers responded to a hit-and-run crash with multiple injuries on GA 61 (US 411) within the city limits of Fairmount.
Alliee Howell was in just the right spot when a mother with a baby boy being cared for in Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit was struggling to breastfeed.
A sixty-seven-year-old man was charged with driving under the influence after he was seen speeding on Highway 27. According to a report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office, a deputy clocked the man driving 78 mph on Highway 27 coming into Summerville. The deputy performed a traffic stop inside the city limits and called for assistance from Summerville Police. The driver admitted to the deputy that he had a “shot of bourbon” before he left Rockmart. Joel Edward Ozment was charged with DUI for alcohol, speeding, no proof of insurance and failure to change license within 60 days of moving. He was booked into the Chattooga County Jail on the charges last Friday.
GRAMMY® Award-winning and Country Music Hall of Fame members, The Oak Ridge Boys are officially celebrating their 50th Anniversary this October. With this celebration, The Oak Ridge Boys are announcing their American Made: Farewell Tour! The group, Duane Allen (1966), Joe Bonsall (1973), William Lee Golden (1965), and Richard Sterban (1972) are excited to celebrate both milestones with fans with the announcement of this tour.
Once again, U.S. News has ranked Berry College the No. 1 best value among regional universities in the South which consists of 13 states and territories. Berry rose in nearly all the 2024 U.S. News & World Reports’ Best Colleges rankings. It ranked 1st for “best undergraduate teaching”, 5th for “most innovative” and 5th overall in the South.
On May 24, 2023, Stewart Arra Kelley was convicted of four counts of Child Molestation and three counts of Sexual Battery Against a Child Under the age of 16 by a Walker County jury following a two-day trial before the Honorable Judge Brian House.
The Georgia State Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation recently met to allocate funding for 2024 mission-delivery projects in the Peach State. After the reviewing and ranking process, the NWTF Georgia State Chapter budgeted $162,883 for 18 wild turkey habitat projects, $33,815 for wildlife law enforcement equipment, $43,000 for outreach and education programs and $67,275 for conservation land acquisition, along with a $10,000 commitment to be used across the 18-state region for the NWTF’s new Habitat for the Hatch Initiative.
Knowing the fundamental importance of early literacy and students’ ability to read proficiently by third grade, the Georgia Department of Education is recognizing schools with exceptional achievement or growth in third-grade reading as 2022-2023 Literacy Leaders. Chattooga County School Supt. Jared Hosmer said on Tuesday that Leroy Massey Elementary and Lyerly Elementary were chosen as Literacy Leaders because 15% or more of their 3rd grade students showed growth from 2021-22 to 2022-23 on the Milestones.
There’s Hope For The Hungry will be at South Summerville Baptist Church on Wednesday September 20th. They will be distributing food from 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.