A 17-year-old died Saturday night in a Catoosa County wreck. Jesse Tyler Clark was driving on Alabama Highway when he passed another vehicle on a double yellow line, according to Georgia State Patrol reports.
After the pass, he over-corrected and the pickup truck went into an uncontrolled spin, traveled down an embankment and rolled. Clark was a Heritage High School student.
A passenger in the vehicle, 19-year-old Dakota Basham, was injured but left the scene. Neither was wearing a seat belt.
Last July, an ordinance was passed by the Cherokee County Commission requiring anyone with a residence to have an approved means of sewage disposal.
The measure was passed to minimize the adverse health effects from dumping sewage into the lake.
A dwelling or establishment located on a lot within the Alabama Power Company’s flood easement that does not have access to a public or private sewerage system must have a holding tank permitted by the Cherokee County Health Department. If a public or private sewerage system is available to a dwelling or establishment on a lot, the owner must connect to the system.
A dwelling is defined as “a house, manufactured home or house trailer, shelter, structure, or building or portion thereof, that is or could reasonably be expected to be occupied in whole or in part as the home, residence, or sleeping place of one or more persons.” An establishment is a facility, other than a dwelling that generates sewage, including offices, work places or food service establishments.
Those structures without access to a sewerage system are required to now have a holding tank.
But of nearly 1,000 violation notices sent, many of those were ignored.
“Currently, only about 100 applications have been filed and permits issued,” said Fred Vengrouskie, onsite survey officer with the Bureau of Environmental Services, for the Alabama Department of Public Health.
Health officials began following up on those notices last week. Citations carry a fine of $150 per day not to exceed $5,000 and further legal action as needed.
The fee for the initial holding tank permit is $150. The permit must be renewed annually, which costs $100 a year.
The holding tanks will be inspected and cannot be shared among dwellings.
To get a permit contact the Cherokee County Health Department at 833 Cedar Bluff Road, Centre, Ala., 35960.
For information, visit the Cherokee County Health Department website at www.adph.org/cherokee.
Listed on the March 1-4 Arrest Report at the Chattooga County Jail are:
Joseph Taylor Hunter, Centre, Al. — Aggravated Stalking
Richard Eugene Milstead, Summerville — Probation Violation; Child Support; No Insurance/ No Proof of Insurance; Driving with Suspended/Revoked license
Kimberly Joyce Perry, Summerville — Failure to appear
Christopher Dale Bain, Summerville — Driving with Suspended/Revoked License
Joe Caril Dixon, Cedar Bluff, Al — Public Intoxication
Angela Michelle Gates, Rossville — Failure to appear
Christopher Lee Hardin, Summerville — Hold for Walker County
Edin Gomez Hernandez, Summerville — Driving without valid license/ expired license
Frederick Wayne London, Summerville — Possession of less than one ounce of marijuana
Ronald Garret Mobley, Trion — No helmet; Driving with suspended/revoked license; No insurance/proof of insurance
Shannon Lynn Vivino, Summerville — Theft by shoplifting
Tiffany Leanne Overstreet, Summerville — Simple Battery/FVA
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Local officials are asking for the public's help in reporting suspicious activities, like strange vehicles driving slowly though a neighborhood etc. in an effort to find those responsible for a large number of weapons stolen from homes in Walker and Chattooga counties. Chattooga County Sheriff Mark Schrader thinks three recent daytime burglaries on the north end of the county may be related to a recent rash of gun thefts in Walker County. Schrader met with Walker County officials on the matter last week. "We don't know if it's someone from here going over there, or something from there coming over here," Schrader explained. Although publicly asking for help alerts the criminals the law are out looking, Sheriff Schrader says people's safety if of the utmost importance. Schrader says these criminals are armed and believes the public should be prepared. The officials suspect two or more people are burglarizing homes in northern Chattooga and southern Walker County looking primarily for guns. Schrader said there are about 50 guns floating around somewhere. The thieves are reportedly steeling handguns, shotguns, rifles and even assault rifles. The sheriff says the thieves are possibly targeting homes that appear to have no one there largely because there aren't any vehicles outside. Schrader says he is concerned that thieves will target a home and someone will be there. A GBI crime scene technician has been helping local lawmen process the crime scenes for evidence. |
The Rome-Floyd Fire Department responded to a small fire at Winthrop Senior Living, 10 Highway 411, Rome, Sunday evening around 6:30 p.m.
Residents and staff were evacuated after what initial reports indicated appeared to be an air condition unit caught fire in the main lobby.
Firefighters were able to quickly knock down the fire and set up fans to help ventilate the smoke.
Lobbyists have spent a combined $1,630.10 on Floyd County delegates to the Georgia General Assembly since the start of the year.
The information is contained in reports filed by registered lobbyists with the state and available for viewing online through the Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission website.
Ethics reform has been a hot topic during the current session, with the Senate passing a rule on the first day of the 40-day calendar to cap lobbyists’ gifts to its members at $100 per day, per lobbyist. That took effect immediately. The House passed its own ethics reform bill last week — HB 142 — that would bar lobbyist gifts to individual lawmakers. It currently sits with the Senate Rules Committee.
While the General Assembly is in session, lobbyists are required to file reports with the state twice a month, on the first and 15th.
Freshman legislator Rep, Eddie Lumsden, R-Armuchee, who represents both Floyd and Chattooga Counties, has had less than $250 spent on him by lobbyists.
Lumsden had just four lobbyist expenditures reported for the first two months of the year, totaling $124.46.
In her lawsuit — filed in U.S. District Court in Rome on Friday — Karen Armstrong said Garland and others acting his behalf “made statements to authorities that were knowingly false or, in the alternative, were made with a reckless disregard to the truth or falsity of the statements.”
Armstrong was acquitted of theft charges after a weeklong trial in March 2012.
According to her lawsuit, Armstrong, a coach for more than 30 years, began working for the RFPRA in December 2007.
She collected money from parents for a separate team, called the “Flip City” team, and deposited the funds into her account to pay for team expenses.
Garland reported to Rome police that Armstrong had misappropriated funds from parents by personally accepting money instead of running it through the RFPRA books.
Armstrong said in her suit that, despite the fact she accounted for all of the money, Garland manipulated the investigation by withholding information and evidence.
