Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC) announces the appointment of Torrance Ford to its Board of Directors.
Summerville City Manager Janice Galloway announced her retirement on Monday evening at the Summerville City Council meeting. Galloway has served as Summerville City Manager since 2018.
Summerville Police responded to a call on Ramey Street on Tuesday about a man disturbing the peace. According to a report from the Summerville Police department, the man had been arguing in front of a juvenile with his ex-wife. Police had responded to the scene earlier and told the man to “calm down and go to bed”. Forty-three-year-old Robert Blaine Rehorn chose to ignore that advise and continued to scream at his ex-wife. The next time police responded, they arrested Rehorn and charged him with disorderly conduct. Police say that Rehorn was intoxicated and had a strong odor of alcohol and admitted to drinking prior to the incidents.
On Sunday, Gordon County deputies received information from authorities in Clinton County, Illinois that a fugitive wanted in connection with a kidnapping and suspected homicide had fled Illinois and was believed to be hiding in Gordon County.
Rural Voices USA, a national nonprofit that organizes rural Americans to advocate for issues affecting their communities, has formed a Georgia Steering Committee.
The Chattooga Education Association sponsored the annual District Spelling Bee on the evening of Thursday, November 10th, at Menlo Elementary School. First through eighth grade students from Leroy Massey Elementary, Lyerly Elementary, Menlo Elementary, and Summerville Middle School participated.
David Ralston, the self-described “country lawyer” who helped set the state’s political agenda as the powerful speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives, died Wednesday.
A twenty-seven-year-old Chattooga County man was arrested this week on charges of statutory rape. Chattooga County Sheriff Mark Schrader told WZQZ News that Cameron Felton was arrested after a complaint about him living with a fifteen-year-old juvenile outside of Trion. Sheriff Schrader said that when investigators went to the address, they found the two had been living together and were having a sexual relationship. Felton was arrested on statutory rape charges and booked into the Chattooga County Jail on Tuesday of this week.
A wanted fugitive from Walker County has died after an exchange of gunfire with U.S. Marshals early Wednesday morning at Shallowford Road hotel in Chattanooga.