Everything’s coming up candy and pumpkins in downtown Summerville on Saturday, October 29. Summerville Main Street will team up with the Summerville Trion Optimist Club to present a Pumpkin Palooza with Pumpkin Derby and the Halloween Candy Walk! This fall celebration will be held down the East Washington Streetscape to the Summerville Depot. Hours for the Pumpkin Palooza will run from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Vendors will be on hand with a variety of foods, crafts, and retail for the public’s pleasure. Interested vendors should contact Susan Locklear by email at slocklear@summervillega.org for vendor registration information.

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A LaFayette woman, whose address has a history of neighbor complaints and drug arrests,  has been charged by the LaFayette Police Department.

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The Summerville City Council will hold their regular monthly meeting for October coming up tomorrow evening at 5 PM.  The council’s meetings are open to the public.  You can join the meeting virtually following the instructions below:

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Governor Brian P. Kemp announced Friday that Georgia’s September net tax collections totaled almost $3.1 billion for an increase of $279.2 million, or 9.9 percent, compared to FY 2022 when net tax collections approached $2.82 billion. Year-to-date, net tax revenue collections totaled roughly $7.62 billion for an increase of $513.8 million, or 7.2 percent, through the end of this quarter.

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According to the latest numbers from the Georgia Department of Public Health, there were twenty new COVID-19 cases reported over the past week in Chattooga County.  That was up from two cases reported the previous reporting period.  Across the state, there were eight-seven COVID-19 deaths across the state over the past week.  There were ten COVID-19 cases being treated at Atrium Health Floyd and three patients being treated for COVID-19 at Advent Health Redmond this past week.  New statistics are released weekly on Wednesday from the Georgia Department of Public Health.

A seventeen-year-old from Rome was arrested this week on Chulio Road for multiple charges including hit and run, giving false information to police, and driving without a license.

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Work is progressing on the new building at Menlo Elementary School.  It has been one year since the project began in earnest.

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The City of Summerville is accepting bids for the mowing of the city’s gas department right of ways.  The right of ways are some twenty-nine miles and stretch from Chattooga into Floyd County.  Sealed bids are being accepted until 5 PM on Monday, November 14, 2022.  Those interested can stop by Summerville City Public Works on Cox Street for a complete bid packet.  If a potential bidder has questions, they may contact the city’s public works and utility director Terry Tinney at 706-859-0907.