The Trion City Board of Education will be holding the second and final hearing on the 2024-2025 Fiscal Year operating budget for Trion City Schools coming up next week on Monday, July 8th. The meeting will be held at noon at the Trion City Board of Education at 239 Simmons Street in Trion. The proposed budget can be viewed HERE. The public is invited and encouraged to attend.
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Monday, July 1, 2024:
A nineteen-year-old Summerville man has been arrested and charged with child molestation. Logan Jayden Pickern was arrested on Thursday morning of last week after an investigation by the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff Mark Schrader told WZQZ News over the weekend that Pickern was carrying on a sexual relationship with a twelve-year-old female child. Pickern was arrested last week by Investigator Daniel Sanford after an investigation that began last month and concluded that Pickern was having sex with the child. Pickern was booked into the Chattooga County Jail and was subsequently released on a $50,000 bond, according to Sheriff Schrader.
A Valley Head, Alabama man is accused of shooting a woman to death. According to the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office, twenty-seven-year-old James Michael Howard Jr. was charged with murder and public intoxication.
Georgia has launched the Georgia Dream Peach Plus loan program, aiming to make homeownership more accessible for a wider range of buyers across the state. This initiative, introduced by the Georgia Housing Finance Authority, is designed to cater to those who qualify for Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans but may not meet the criteria for the standard Georgia Dream loan program.
Here are the latest scores from the Chattooga County Environmental Health Department for the last half of June, 2024:
Summer in Georgia, and along with it, outdoor adventures, picnics, barbeques, and…mosquitoes! Avoiding mosquito bites protects you and your family from mosquito-borne illness and helps prevent the spread of disease in Georgia.
Georgia Northwestern Technical College’s Office of Adult Education held its spring 2024 graduation ceremony last Thursday for students who have earned their high school equivalency diplomas.
There are a good many new laws going into effect today in Georgia that were passed by the General Assembly earlier this year and signed by Governor Brian Kemp.
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Sunday, June 30, 2024:
