Friday night football is back on the airwaves tonight here on WZQZ! After a bye week last week, the Chattooga Indians will go on the road for the second straight time this season to Temple High School to take on the Temple Tigers.
Chattooga is 0-1 on the season after a 28-3 loss on the road at Lafayette two weeks ago. Temple is 2-0 on the season with blowout wins over Pike County (57-6) and Christian Heritage (31-13).
Paul and Phil Cavin will call the action for Chattooga tonight with Price Wilson manning the video camera. Join the WZQZ crew tonight at 7:15 pm for pregame with kickoff to follow at 730 pm. The game will be live streamed on the WZQZ Facebook page and will also be broadcast on the radio on 99.1 FM and AM 1180.
The Trion Bulldogs have a bye week this week and will resume play next week on the road at Gordon Central.
This week members of the Summerville Police Department and Fire Department received training from Atrium Health Floyd EMS in major bleeding control using tourniquets and various trauma dressings. This training was conducted after the Police Department received bleeding control kits from a grant provided by the Tillotson-Menlo Charitable Foundation.
Here are the most recent health inspection scores from the Chattooga County Environmental Health Department for the last half of August, 2023:
A forty-one-year-old Summerville man was arrested by the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office after he claimed his brother had tried to break down his door and shoot him with a taser.
Looking for old motorcycles to be hauled away. Call Rodney at 706-477-0159
The GBI says 31 people were arrested over an 11-day period in a statewide child exploitation operation named “Operation Sneaky Peach”. The GBI says one of the 31 arrests includes a Walker County man, fifty-one-year-old Jeffery Lynn who lives in Rossville.
WZQZ news reported on Thursday that company officials from GMASS – the company hired by Chattooga County to assist with property tax assessments – were in town on Wednesday of this week. The company said emphatically that there was no “glitch” in the system that caused improper assessment values. Stan King, the CEO of the company, laid the blame on the tax assessors office saying the errors were because of “bad data”.
To allow for the anticipated increase in Labor Day weekend traffic congestion, the Georgia Department of Transportation (Georgia DOT) announced today the suspension of lane closures on Georgia interstates and state routes beginning Friday, September 1 at 12 p.m. until 5 a.m. Tuesday, September 5.
