Chattooga County deputies responded to a disturbance on Dave Moore Road on Saturday after neighbors complained about shots being fired.
The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) continues to closely monitor the current outbreak of monkeypox in the state. As of Tuesday, there were 625 confirmed monkeypox cases in Georgia. Testing and vaccination are available in health districts throughout the state; however, vaccine supplies from the federal government remain limited.
The federal agency in charge of Medicaid on Tuesday denied Georgia’s application for a waiver to set up the state’s own health insurance marketplace.
The Hilliard A. Wilbanks Foundation awarded the Capt. Hilliard A. Wilbanks Medal of Honor Memorial Scholarship, to a University of North Georgia ROTC Cadet who is also a graduate of Trion High School.
Two soldiers based at Fort Benning, Georgia, died and three others were injured in a weather-related incident Tuesday during training on a mountain in the northern part of the state, Army officials said Tuesday.
The Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office was called to a Sloppy Floyd Lake Road address and met with a woman who said she was turning onto Sloppy Floyd Lake Road from Highway 27 when she saw a Chevrolet truck and a man running towards it from a car that had been parked on the side of the road for about a week. The woman said she went and looked at the vehicle and noticed that the back passenger side window had been damaged and several items were laying on the ground near the vehicle. Deputies contacted the owner of the vehicle, who was at work at the time, and let her know that the disabled car was being towed to her residence and that she should look inside and see what all was missing. The incident was turned over to an investigator.
The American Floorcovering Alliance Inc. (AFA) has donated $135,000 to Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC) to support the college’s flooring industry programs.
The Summerville City Council met on Monday evening of this week and approved special cups to be sold to alcohol vendors for the new entertainment district. The council approved the downtown entertainment district earlier and have now approved cups that will be sold to allow people the ability to walk around the designated area and drink alcohol. The council approved a price of .75 cents per cup that will be paid by the businesses that wish to sell alcohol in the entertainment area. The specially designated cups will cost the city about .25 cents per cup. The City of Summerville modeled their idea for the downtown entertainment district along the same lines as the City of Rome.
The Trion Fire Department is asking for the public’s help in finding the driver who allegedly hit a utility pole Tuesday morning.
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Wednesday, August 10, 2022: