The parent company of six area newspapers, including the Rome News Tribune and the Walker County Messenger has filed for Chapter 11 Reorganization. News Publishing also owns the Catoosa County News, the Calhoun Times, the Cedartown Standard and the Rockmart Journal. Plans are to "do business as usual" through the process. Unsecured debt and taxes amounting to around 7-million dollars will have to be restructured. News Publishing is headed by Burgett H. Mooney III, company president. The 157 employees were told of the plan Monday.
With redistricting changing many of the counties he serves in Congress, U.S. Representative Tom Graves has announced plans to open a new district office in Rome. The new 14th Congressional District is oriented more North to South instead of East to West. Graves district used to extend from Walker County East to Gainesville. Now it extends from Walker County South, to Harralson and Paulding Counties.
The Congressman will keep the Dalton District Office, at 702 South Thornton Avenue. The phone number there is 706-226-5320. The new Rome office will be located at 600 East First Street, Suite 301. The phone number is 706-290-1776.
Graves Washington office has also moved to a larger space, in Room 432 of the Cannon House Office Building. The Congressman says "constituent service is the top priority" of his Congressional Offices.
Listed on the January 2 Arrest Report at the Chattooga Jail are:
Joseph Andrew Chandler, Summerville — No Charges Listed
Daelyn Renae Dyer, Summerville — Underage Possession of Alcohol
Susan Michelle Harvey, Lafaytte — Fugitive From Justice
Aaron Cody Helton, Summerville — Simple Battery/FVA
Samantha Helton, Summerville — Simple Battery/FVA
Cornelio Gomez- Lopez, Opelika,AL — No Insurance/No Proof of Insurance; Open Container of Alcohol; DUI/Alcohol; Willful Obstruction of Law Enforcement Officers.
Corey Allen Gillreath, Gaylesville, AL — Probation Violation
Christina Michelle Taylor, Summerville — Driving with Suspended/ Revoked License; Failure to Maintain Single Lane
Thomas Junior Vanpelt, Summerville — No Charges Listed
John B. Williams, Trion — Battery
A Chattooga County woman may be the victim of a sweepstakes scam. According to the report by the Chattooga County Sheriff's Department, a woman tried to cash a Wells Fargo check for $4,895 at National Title Pawn on Highway 27 on December 29.
The check reportedly turned out to be fraudulent. The woman told deputies she had received the check in the mail in an apparent internet sweepstakes and thought she was a winner. She said he had even received a winning notification claim letter.
The letter from Prime Alliance Inc. reportedly also requested a payment of $2,987 to be send in for government taxes. It is not indicated if the woman paid those supposed taxes. The incident was turned over to investigators.
A prowler was reported in North Ridge Estates just after midnight December 31. According to the Sheriff's Department report, the resident told officers that she heard a noise outside her home near her bedroom window. She also said she heard a knocking sound on the other end of the house. She said when she looked out a window, she saw someone in the driveway, between the vehicles. Extra patrol reportedly was requested int the area.
Young Democrats of Georgia is proud to announce the location and theme of our 2013 Convention: YDG in the ATL.
This year's Convention will be held April 12-14, 2013 on the campus of Emory University.
For more information, please visit the 2013 Convention Website, where you can find out about Registration, Sponsorship, and more!
The banking system is healing with 2012 the best year for profits reported since 2006. Still, Georgia had 10 bank failures during 2012 with one in nearby Walker County. Covenant Bank and Trust in Rock Spring was taken over by Stearn's Bank, back in March. Most of the other 9 bank failures in the state were in Metro Atlanta. With the worst of the recession apparently behind us, bankers in Georgia say they are glad that people and businesses are taking out, and repaying loans again.
A northwest Georgia amusement park hopes to open a new water park with a tax break under a new Georgia law.
Four area law enforcement officials will learn how to safely dismantle a methamphetamine lab during a weeklong training session at FBI headquarters in Quantico, Va., in January.
The Lookout Mountain Judicial Drug Task Force is sending deputies Donnie Brown and Alan Ellenburg from the Walker County Sheriff’s Office, Lt. Randy Hicks of the LaFayette Police Department and investigator Scott Jordan from Catoosa County Sheriff’s Office to the course, which is funded through federal Homeland Security tax dollars.
Task Force Commander Pat Doyle said the region had 31 of the 130 meth labs reported in Georgia in 2011 and could be responsible for dismantling as many as 40 from this year.
Clean-up costs for a meth lab averaged $2,500 to $5,000 each, with some of the bigger ones running as high as $10,000 — but a new disposal method is saving money.
Doyle said the Task Force adopted a plan used in Tennessee, Missouri and Kentucky in which separated components of meth labs are stored in an explosion-resistant, steel, hazardous materials container until a scheduled incineration.
