Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has give the go-ahead for state agencies to request spending increases for the mid-year 2024 budget and the 2025 fiscal year budget.  The University System of Georgia is seeking a $385.4 million increase.  The system’s Board of Regents voted Friday to request a mid-year budget of $3.6 billion in state funds. The largest portion of that money – $119.1 million – would go to pay off the bond indebtedness incurred in building seven fee-funded public-private construction projects, including student dorms and parking facilities. Paying off the debt portion of those projects would considerably reduce the fees students who use the facilities would have to pay.  Kemp will present his budget recommendations to the legislature in January.

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An eighteen-year-old has been charged in connection with a burglary at Unity Christian School on New Calhoun Highway in Rome last week.

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A forty-seven-year-old Summerville woman was arrested on Wednesday of last week after she tossed another woman’s clothes out of a laundry room window.  Summerville Police responded to a call on Highway 48 about the incident.  When they arrived and spoke with the complainant she said that Kimberly Joyce Perry had taken her clothes out of the dryer in the community laundry room and had thrown them out the window.  Perry, who admitted to having consumed alcohol, also admitted to the responding officer that she had thrown the clothes out the window “for spite”. Perry was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and was booked into the Chattooga County Jail.

Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Saturday, September 9, 2023:

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Habitat for Humanity – Coosa Valley is currently preparing for the 3^rd annual Drive One FORE! Habitat Golf Tournament.  The Coosa Valley Chapter of Habitat for Humanity serves Chattooga, Floyd and Polk Counties.

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