The City of Summerville has posted a public notice about the 2023 General Municipal Election that will be held on November 7, 2023. The election will be for three city-council seats. The candidate qualifying period will be held at Summerville City Hall on August 21-25 from 8:30 AM until 5 PM and on Friday, August 25th from 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM. The council seat qualifying fee is $108. If you have any questions, you may contact Angela White, the Summerville City Clerk at 706-859-0900 extension 1307.
First responders were dispatched to a two-vehicle collision near the intersection of Highways 9 and 35 just after 10:00 Wednesday morning, involving a 2008 Jeep and a 2020 Dodge. The wreck was reportedly head-on, leading to one driver being entrapped.
If you have a child that will be four-years-old on or before September 1, 2023, you need to get them registered for pre-k next week. Pre-k registration is taking place for both Chattooga and Trion four-year-old children starting on Monday.
Chattooga County saw a huge spike in unemployment claims in December of 2022. Numbers from the Georgia Department of Labor were released on Thursday.
Faculty and staff at Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC) have nominated four of their peer instructors for the Rick Perkins Award of Excellence in Technical Instruction competition.
Chattooga County’s land use ordinance, adopted hastily last year by Commissioner Blake Elsberry, is still not being enforced – even though it is almost a year old. Commissioner Elsberry has appointed a commission to oversee the implementation of the ordinance, but the committee is still revising the original ordinance that Elsberry adopted.
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Thursday, January 19, 2023:
Fourteenth Congressional District Congresswoman Marjory Taylor Greene has received two committee assignments.
A 20-year-old Kingston man was arrested Tuesday at his Fulton Road home on a felony warrant charging him with aggravated cruelty to animals.
