The Georgia Department of Transportation has announced that they will be working on two lanes on I-75 in the overnight hours at the beginning of this week:
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Saturday, August 12, 2022:
Today is the deadline to sign your child up for fall sports with the Summerville Recreation Department.
Summerville Police responded to a call at the Circle K on the Lyerly Highway on Wednesday of this week after a call about theft. When officers arrived on the scene, they spoke with Shuan Prince of CSC Service Works – a company based out of Norcross that own the air machine at the gas station. Prince showed the officer damage to the air vending machine and where someone had cut into the machine with either a plasma cutter or a gas cutting torch and had stolen an estimated $300 from the machine. Prince said that he wanted a report on file and said that the thieves might target other machines located in Summerville. The incident was turned over to an investigator.
A thirty-year-old Summerville woman was arrested earlier this week after Summerville Police observed her to be under the influence while walking on Bittings Avenue. When an officer approached the woman she began performing, what appeared to the officer, a sobriety test by removing her shoes and standing on one leg. When the officer asked what she was doing, she told the officer that she knew “how it goes” when a person has to provide a sobriety test. The woman at first told the officer that she had vertigo, but later admitted to drinking alcohol and told the officer she was walking to her ex-husband’s house. Brittany Leigh Sturgeon was arrested and booked into the Chattooga County Jail on charges of being a pedestrian under the influence.
The Miss Chattooga County Fair Pageant will be held one week from today, on Saturday, August 20th, 2022 beginning at 3:00 pm at the Chattooga High School located at 989 Highway 114, Summerville, GA 30747.
The “extremely transmissible, highly contagious” BA.5 variant continues to spread across Northwest Georgia, which is shown by “double-digit” admissions at area hospitals.
Ladies, have you ever wanted to head out to go backpacking or fishing or shooting, but not sure where to start? The Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resources Division can help!
Charges have been filed in a fatal wreck that occurred in the 700 block of Wax Road in Floyd County back on May 1.
A woman called the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday of this week because she wanted a report filed about her intoxicated partner on file. The woman told responding deputies that she was packing her things to leave the Back Valley Road residence with her child and her boyfriend was verbally abusing her. The woman played a recording of the man’s tirade to deputies. Deputies advised the woman to get her thing together and leave the residence and cautioned both the woman and the man to stay away from each other in the future.