State Representative Eddie Lumsden is beginning his sixth term representing Chattooga County and a portion of Floyd County in the Georgia House of Representatives. With the legislative session now underway, Lumsden has retained the chairmanship of the House Insurance Committee, a position he was first elected to in 2020.
The Coosa Valley Chapter of Habitat for Humanity will be holding an informational meeting in Chattooga County coming up a week from this Thursday. The meeting is meant to inform people interested in applying for a home and will be held at the Chattooga County Civic Center on January 26, 2023.
With the new legislative session underway in the Georgia General Assembly, the new state senator representing Northwest Georgia says that two of his goals are to end certificates of need for healthcare facilities, and to end the film tax credit in the Peach State.
Here are the health inspection scores from for the first half of January 2023 from the Chattooga County Environmental Health Department:
Today is a Federal and state holiday, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Locally, governmental offices will be closed and there is a MLK Day service planned at a Summerville church.
The Chattooga County Board of Education will hold its first meeting of 2023 coming up this Thursday at 6 PM. This week’s meeting will be the first for newly sworn-in board members Lori Brady, Tiffany Lawrence and Bonnie Fletcher. The three were sworn-in by Chattooga County Probate Judge Gary Woods recently. The new board members will be getting up to date on the progress at the new Menlo Elementary School building and other business at Thursday’s meeting. The Chattooga County Board of Education meets at the Chattooga County Education Center, located at 206 Penn Street in Summerville, and the public is invited to attend.
The Chattooga County Land Use Commission is meeting tomorrow evening to unveil changes to the county’s land use ordinance that was hastily adopted last year by Chattooga County Commissioner Blake Elsberry.
A forty-year-old Georgia Department of Transportation maintenance department foreman was killed while cleaning up storm damage in Walker County on Friday night. Sean Kornaki was a sixteen-year veteran of the Georgia DOT.
In recent days, law enforcement officers in Northwest Georgia have seized fentanyl – a dangerous drug that kills hundreds of people each day in the United States.
Georgia’s workers still have plenty of options when it comes to employment, and that includes plenty of open positions in Chattooga County.
