Chattooga County Commissioner Blake Elsberry will be holding a millage rate meeting this evening at the Chattooga County Civic Center in Summerville. The commissioner says that he will be setting the millage rate at 16.0706 mills and that is the lowest millage rate the county government has set in five years.
The state of Georgia now has the fourth most confirmed monkeypox cases in the United States, according to the CDC.
A federal appeals court this past Friday ordered that statewide elections for two Georgia public service commissioners be put back on the November ballot, only a week after a federal judge postponed the elections after finding that electing the five commissioners statewide illegally diluted minority votes.
Authorities in Dalton arrested a Chattooga County man recently after he was accused of shoplifting.
The Center Post Community Center will host its free music night this Saturday August 20th and will begin at 7 PM. Center Post Community Center will welcome New Grass Express as well as Dr. Ted Scoggins performing on stage. Everyone is welcome to attend. The Community Center is located in Walker County, just north of the Teloga Community at 8125 Highway 337 LaFayette, Georgia.
More information has been released from the Floyd County Jail regarding a bomb threat that was called in by a Summerville woman last week.
Georgia gas prices continue to decline at the pump compared to a week ago. Georgia drivers are now paying an average price of $3.52 per gallon for regular unleaded gasoline (subject to change overnight). Monday’s state average was 11 cents less than a week ago, 59 cents less than a month ago, and 56 cents more than this time last year.
When federal workplace safety inspectors visited three Dollar General stores in Georgia earlier this year, they found exit routes obstructed, boxes of merchandise stacked unsafely and electrical panels hard to access, violations often cited at Dollar General locations.
Homecoming will be this coming Sunday, August 21st, beginning at 10:30 Georgia time at Mount Calvary Baptist Church on Lookout Mountain. Brother Kevin Smith will preach the message, and Brother Glen Wilbanks and family will be the special singers. Everyone is invited. The Church is located at 10090 Cherokee County Road 103 on Lookout Mountain, just across the Georgia Line, South of Cloudland, GA.
One person died and eight families were displaced in a Saturday night fire at Carriage Hill Apartments in LaFayette. LaFayette Police report that arson is the cause and a suspect is in custody.
