The Summerville City Council will be holding a called meeting on Monday evening at Summerville City Hall.  According to an agenda released on Friday, the purpose of the meeting is for the council to interview potential candidates for the city manager’s position.   Larry F. Deaton, Jr., Emma Wells and Jason Winters are the three finalists selected for the position.  Deaton is a state employee that lives in Calhoun.  Wells works for the Rome / Floyd County government and Winters is the former three-term sole commissioner of Chattooga County.  While Monday’s meeting is open to the public, the council will go into executive session to interview the candidates.  According to a timeline the council set earlier, a decision is expected before August 15th.

Georgia wide receiver Rara Thomas is facing multiple felonies after he was arrested early Friday morning in Athens. Records from the Athens-Clarke County Sheriff’s Office show that Thomas has been charged with three counts of second-degree cruelty to children, and three counts of family violence battery. Officials have not shared details about what led to Thomas’s arrest. According to the records, Thomas remains in custody without bond. This was Thomas’s second arrest during his time at the University of Georgia. In January 2023, he was charged with false imprisonment and a misdemeanor count of family violence battery. Those charges were eventually dropped.

A 12-year-old girl whose disappearance galvanized a Georgia community has been found in Ohio.

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(From left, front row) Richard Craig, Coleton Carlock, John Blankenship, Kaden Baucom, Mitchell Bandy, Megan Baggett; (back row) Anthony Warrick, William Sullivan, Jeremy Rice, Richard Jackson, Caleb Hobbs and Houston Henry are graduates of GNTC’s Basic POST Certification Class #BPC1-2024-07.

Friends, family and the community gathered in the Conference Center at Georgia Northwestern Technical College’s (GNTC) Gordon County Campus in Calhoun on July 22 to honor 12 students graduating from Basic POST Certification Class #BPC1-2024-07.

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Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriffs Office for Friday, July 26, 2024:

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It’s back to school today for students in the Chattooga County School System.  WZQZ Radio wants to wish all of the students, teachers, support staff and administration at Menlo Elementary, Lyerly Elementary, Leroy Massey Elementary, Summerville Middle School and Chattooga High School a great 2024-2025 school year!

A thirty-year-old Summerville man has been arrested twice this week – once on Tuesday and then again on Wednesday.

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Lauren Alaina with her father – Photo Credit: Lauren Alaina Facebook Page

Walker County, Georgia native Lauren Alaina took to social media Wednesday afternoon, July 24, to announce the death of her father, J.J Suddeth. Alaina posted on her Instagram story, “We lost my daddy last night, and I really don’t have words yet.”

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