Another Northwest Georgia tax office is moving to a four-day work week. Murray County’s Tax Commissioner Billy Childers says he got the idea from Chattooga County Tax Commissioner Joy Hampton.
Despite the fact that a judge ruled in favor of Saturday voting for the runoff election between incumbent Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker, there are no plans for Saturday voting in Chattooga County for the runoff election.
A Summerville man was arrested after he was found driving a 1977 Coachman Leprechaun Gold RV on Lombardy Way in Rome on Sunday night. The driver failed to pull over in the vehicle and was eventually stopped by police. Twenty-six-year-old Michael Amerson, Jr. of Summerville was arrested and charged with felony theft by receiving. He was additionally charged with obstruction of police officers for refusing to stop when directed by police. Amerson was being held at the Floyd County Jail on bail as of Monday of this week.
In America are up 20 percent this year, according to the Farm Bureau’s 37th annual survey that showed a dinner for 10 will cost Georgia residents about $58.42.
The GBI has arrested Ashjuan Stocks, age 15, of Rockmart, and charged him with felony malice murder, aggravated assault, possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, possession of a pistol by a person under 18, and possession of marijuana within a 1000ft of the housing authority. The charges relate to the shooting death of Cieria Lashae Colvin. The Rockmart Police Department requested the GBI assist with a shooting investigation where Colvin was found shot in the area of Forrest Court in Rockmart on November 19. Colvin was taken to a local hospital, where she died. The investigation is active and ongoing. If anyone has information about this case, they should contact the GBI Calhoun office at 706-624-1424.
With folks gathered around the table, amid all the fixings and side dishes, at the center of the Thanksgiving feast sits the turkey. Cooking the perfect turkey is an art form. It can also be a time consuming endeavor in a crowded kitchen that is heating up from all the people within and the oven running all day. But it doesn’t have to be. Make your backyard grill an extension of your holiday kitchen to alleviate some of the madness (and reduce the temperature). Slow roasted turkey on your barbecue’s rotisserie has the crispy golden skin you are accustomed to seeing out of the oven, with moist, tender meat infused with flavors that have a hint of smokiness from the open flame.
Summerville Police responded to a call about a burglary on Sunday. According to a report from the Summerville Police Department, officers were called to a Curran Street address after Howard Slicker discovered someone had broken into his home.
Georgia Power is celebrating community service and holiday cheer again this year with its annual Light Up the Holidays contest. This year, the company wants to see how Georgia is lighting up the holidays, either through a holiday display or through acts of community service.
November is National Hospice and Palliative Care Month, and Atrium Health Floyd’s Love Light Tree is shining again to highlight the mission of Heyman Hospice Care.
On Wednesday, November 16, 2022, Edgar Charles Neely, a 41 year old man from Rossville, Georgia was convicted by a Walker County jury for the charges of Aggravated Child Molestation and two counts of Child Molestation. The evidence, presented over the course of a three day trial, presided over by Judge Don W. Thompson, showed that Neely, who was a longtime friend of the victim’s mother, began sexually molesting the victim when she was only 14 years old and Neely was 37 years old.