Chattooga County students attending or planning to attend Dalton State College have a new science building to look forward to. Ground was broken on Monday on the new 15-million dollar science building. The three-story structure will have 58-thousand square feet of space for math and science classrooms and laboratories. Dalton State offers four-year degrees in both biology and chemistry. The new addition to campus will feature state-of-the-art equipment and even private labs for student research.
U.S. Representative Tom Graves invites constituents to attend an open house of his office in Dalton. The open house will be an opportunity for constituents in the 9th District to meet with Graves and his staff, as well as tour the Dalton office. Light refreshments will be provided. The open house will be held from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Monday, November 26, at Graves' Dalton office, 702 Thornton Avenue.
Two Chattooga County residents booked into the Floyd County Jail on Monday, according to jail records.
Joel Landon Jones, of Walnut Street, Trion, was arrested by the Rome Police Department on Monday. 17-year-old Jones was charged with theft by Shoplifting.
Daniel Paul Ragan, of Rowlls Road, Lyerly, was arrested in Chattooga County on Monday on a warrant for Floyd County authorities. 28-year-old Ragan was charged with theft by taking.
A well-dressed woman comes out of the blue with a large amount of money that she has just found.
It’s the start of a scheme that can see the victim taken for thousands of dollars and Rome police are telling elderly people to know that it could happen to them. Authorities remind you if it sounds too good to be true it probably is.
This specific one is called a "pigeon drop" scam and it reportedly happens once or twice a year in Rome. The victim is known as the pigeon.
Last Friday saw a Rome woman lose $6,700 in such a scam when she gave a professional looking woman the money as part of a buy-in to split a bag of money she had found that she said could contain as much as $100,000.
The suspect was described as a white female, perhaps in her late 20s, with short blonde hair, a brown mini-skirt and light colored top.
Quite often the perpetrator tells victims the money will be used to pay a lawyer for filing fees to make it legally acceptable for them to split the money.
Police say the victim of Friday’s incident said the suspect talked very fast and seemed to know exactly what to do and why they shouldn’t involve the authorities.
The Rome police say that if a person locates any money they should call 911 and turn it into the proper authorities while they attempt to locate the owner.
If the owner is not found after 90 days the person who found the money can request a hearing with the chief of police that will determine if they can keep the money.
A Summerville woman was killed in a traffic accident just after 4 p.m. last Thursday. According to the report by the Georgia State Patrol, Jonan Hamrick Ivie was trapped in and extricated from the 2001 Volkswagon Beetle she was driving. The 79-year-old Ivie, of Brock Road, Summerville died from injuries to the chest area. She was transported by Redmond EMS to Redmond Regional Medical Center.
According to the report, Ivie was traveling east on Klatt Boulevard and was trying to turn onto Georgia 1 (Highway 27) from the right turn lane of Klatt Boulevard by Walmart. Timothy Ballard, of Bitings Avenue, Summerville, was traveling south on Georgia 1 in the left lane. Ivie reportedly failed to yield the right of way and made an improper left turn which caused the front of Ballard's 1997 Ford Explorer to strike the driver's side door of the vehicle Ivie was driving.
After impact both vehicles together continued south across both lanes of traffic, traveling 69 feet before separating. According to the report, 27-year-old Ballard was not injured.
The Georgia State Patrol in Rome released the report on the accident on Tuesday.
There is no one listed on the Chattooga County Sheriff's Department arrest report for November 13. Also, the Sheriff's Department sent us an email saying there have been no incident reports entered.
A Mahan Road resident reported Saturday that their home was burglarized. Dani Grinis told Chattooga County Sheriff's deputies that when she arrived home Saturday night the front door knob to the residence was broken. She said she found her prescription hydrocodone was missing , as well as her father's — a total of 160 pills in all. While the home reportedly contained several expensive electronic items, the only thing taken was the prescription drugs
A Walker County Church has finished rebuilding after an arson in July 2011. Garrett's Chapel Baptist Church suffered nearly $400,000 in damage and the arsonist was never caught. The congregation rebuilt the church and on Sunday a dedication service was held.