From the Georgia DOT: Weather permitting, crews will close 2nd Avenue between Shorter Avenue and State Route 101 starting on Tuesday of this week. The right northbound lane on 2nd Avenue will be closed from West 3rd Street to just before the freight receiving entrance of Floyd Medical Center. Along with those closures, a temporary traffic signal will be installed at the intersection of SR 101 and Turner McCall Boulevard. The work is part of the project on 2nd Avenue that will include improvements along the route and remove the closed section of roadway. The project is slated to be completed in Fall 2026.

A Chattooga County teen was charged with DUI for drugs last Sunday after being stopped at B&B Market on Old Highway 27 in Trion.  According to a report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office, deputies performed a traffic stop after they noticed that the vehicle eighteen-year-old Hayden Lee Snyder was driving was not displaying a license plate.  A deputy noticed the smell of marijuana coming from inside the vehicle as he spoke with Snyder.  After a search of the vehicle, deputies found a baggy with suspected marijuana inside.  Snyder was unable to pass several impairment tests and was placed under arrest for DUI for drugs and was additionally charged with driving with suspended or canceled registration.

The Summerville City Council will be considering mobile home requests at the August City Council meeting.  The city has advertised that they will hear a request from Joseph Wilson concerning property located at 203 Henley Street.  Also, the council will hear from Simone Adams with a mobile home request for property located on Cherry Avenue which is not currently zoned for mobile homes.  The meeting will be held on Monday, August 12th at 5 PM at Summerville City Hall.

An inmate at the Floyd County Prison, Jonathan McGee, 43 of Cartersville, has been pronounced dead after being found unresponsive in his cell.  According to the Georgia Department of Corrections, McGee was found last week by prison staff who say that McGee had overdosed on an unspecified drug on Tuesday of this past week.  He was pronounced brain dead on Wednesday.   McGee had been housed at the Floyd County Prison since April of 2023 on burglary charges.

Georgia Labor Commissioner Bruce Thompson announced this past Thursday that all of Georgia’s Regional Commissions and many of the 159 counties in the state reported a rise in June unemployment rates – including Chattooga County.

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Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Saturday, July 27, 2024:

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The American Red Cross urges donors to give blood now to reinforce the blood supply as much as possible before the summer winds down. Type O blood donors and those giving platelets are especially needed to help keep hospital shelves stocked through August.

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Georgia State Superintendent of Schools Richard Woods

Georgia’s superintendent of schools seemingly reversed course Wednesday following backlash over the state’s refusal to provide funding for a new Advanced Placement class in African American Studies.

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Georgia students showed progress on standardized tests given in the 2023-2024 school year, but it’s far from a quick rebound to pre-pandemic achievement levels as students in some grades and subjects aren’t showing a clear recovery. The Georgia Department of Education released the annual Milestones test results Friday. Students in grades 3 through 8 as well as high schoolers take tests in math and English language arts, while a few grades take science and social studies tests. Federal law requires most of the tests. Because the state administered a math test for a redesigned math curriculum, those scores won’t be available for several more months. Proficiency levels — the share of students meeting expectations for what they should know — averaged 43.5% in English language arts in 2019, the last year before the pandemic. In 2024, they averaged 39.5%, up a percentage point on average from 2023.