A forty-two-year-old Summerville man was arrested by police last week after he was found arguing with his mother and disturbing the peace.  According to Summerville Police, Kenneth Lee Edgeworth of a Highway 48, Summerville address, was at a residence on Martin Street causing a disturbance.  Police say that when they arrived on the scene, Edgeworth was arguing loudly with his mother.  When an officer tried to mediate the situation, Edgeworth reportedly threatened the officer with bodily harm.  Edgeworth was arrested on disorderly conduct charges and was booked into the Chattooga County Jail on Thursday of last week.

A twenty-four-year-old Trion man was arrested last week in Summerville on disorderly conduct charges after he reportedly struck another person’s vehicle with his fists.  Summerville Police say that Alec Michael-Shane Dodd was arrested near the intersection of Highland Avenue and Commerce Street, after he got out of a vehicle and began hitting another person’s vehicle in the roadway.  Dodd was booked into the Chattooga County Jail on Thursday of last week.

Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Sunday, September 3, 2023:

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Over the past two weeks, there have been almost 10,000 new COVID-19 cases reported statewide in Georgia.  According to the Georgia Department of Public Health, the EG.5 or “ERIS,” is the dominant COVID variant spreading in the U.S. right now. It is responsible for about 17% of new COVID cases in the country, and about 16% of new cases in Georgia so far. “ERIS” has early depictions that indicate it could be more easily transmissible than some other variants, but is not resulting in as many deaths as earlier strains of the virus. In Chattooga County, there have been 56 new COVID-19 cases over the past two weeks, according to numbers released this past week by the Georgia Department of Public Health. The overall COVID numbers remain relatively low and health professionals do not foresee another massive surge in cases soon. But they say COVID is being treated like the flu.