A fifty-two-year-old Summerville woman was charged with drug possession after a traffic stop on Bellah Avenue in Summerville last week.  Summerville Police say that Tina Joann Hughes was a passenger inside the vehicle that was stopped after an officer observed that the occupants were not wearing their seat belts.  Officers noticed a faint smell of marijuana inside the vehicle and asked the driver and two passengers to step outside the car.  Drugs were found inside a pocketbook that was sitting on the seat inside the vehicle.  Hughes admitted that the pocketbook was hers.  Hughes was charged with drug possession and was booked into the Chattooga County Jail on Wednesday.

A joint, student-led event between the Chattooga and Trion chapters of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes will take place at Sam R. McCain Stadium in Trion on Wednesday, September 25th at 6:30 PM.  Michael Lee will be leading music and Jordan Teems will be the guest speaker.  All churches, youth groups and individuals are welcome and encouraged to attend.

A former supervisor Georgia county Public Works Supervisor has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud.

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The deadline is approaching for registration for the Georgia Northwestern Technical College fall mini-mester term.  The admissions deadline is Monday, September 23rd.  Classes start on October 14th.  The GNTC Admissions Office is available at their call center at (866) 983-4682, or you may visit one of their campuses Monday through Friday, 7:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. or you can email Admissions.  More below:

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Georgia Governor Brian Kemp says that he wants to see the state provide funds to ensure that there is a school resource officer (SRO) in every public school in the state.  The governor’s call for more school security comes at the same time Georgia’s House Speaker Jon Burns is calling for new mental health policies and weapons detection for school districts.  The school shooting in Barrow County that killed four people has sparked a rash of hoax threats that have kept local law enforcement and the GBI busy since the tragedy, including threats at Trion High School in Chattooga County on Wednesday of this past week and a hoax threat at Leroy Massey Elementary on Friday.  Some Democratic lawmakers are saying that the Republican majority in the state legislature is not proposing enough and that there needs to be stiffer penalties for parents of students who gain access to guns and for universal background checks for gun purchases.  At least one Republican legislator is also calling for universal background checks.   Rep. Deborah Silcox of Sandy Springs, said in a statement Thursday that she would join Democrats in backing stiffer gun laws.

Chattooga Democrats will hold a meeting coming up tomorrow evening, Monday, September 16th at 6 PM a Chattooga Nutrition – formerly known as the Chattooga Senior Center, located at 184 Senior Drive in Summerville. Local Democrats will be writing postcards in support of U.S. Congressional candidate Shawn Harris.  Also they will discuss future events and yard signs will be available at the meeting.

Ga State Parks Chief of Administrative Services Katherine Darsey, DNR Deputy Commissioner Thomas Barnard, Ga State Parks Director Angie Johnson, DNR Commissioner Walter Rabon, Ga State Parks Chief of Resource Management Ellen Graham, and Ga State Parks Assistant Director Ray Smith.

All-terrain wheelchairs, ADA accessible kayak launches and accessible fishing docks are among the many offerings in Georgia’s State Park system that helped earn the state a national award yesterday. In recognition of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ (DNR) new accessibility initiative, Outdoors Beyond Barriers, the National Association of State Parks Directors (NASPD) presented DNR’s State Parks and Historic Sites Division with its Innovation Award. It was accepted by Georgia State Parks Director Angie Johnson at the annual conference on Thursday.

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The Atrium Health Floyd-Polk Foundation awarded more than $1.3 million in grants to Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center and Atrium Health Floyd Polk Medical Center which will be used to support 33 community agencies as part of their inaugural Community Impact Grant cycle for 2024, including $65,000 to Chattooga County agencies. The awards were announced Wednesday, Sept. 11, at an event at Coosa Country Club.  The Chattooga Boys & Girls Club received a $10,000 grant for the local unit’s Project Learn Campaign. The support will help the Chattooga Boys & Girls Club to continue to provide needed program supplies and activity support for educational games, interactive technology, educational trips and more.

There was nothing unlucky about Friday the thirteenth as both local high school football teams continued their winning streaks last night with the Chattooga Indians defeating Gordon Central and the Trion Bulldogs defeating LaFayette.

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Yesterday, Georgia Governor Brian P. Kemp delivered the keynote address at the second annual Governor’s Workforce Summit, during which he announced that Georgia has been named the No. 1 state for business for the 11th consecutive year by Area Development magazine. He also provided an update on the state of Georgia MATCH and other state efforts to strengthen workforce development while putting forth the goal of making Georgia the Top State for Talent.

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