Best Friends Animal Society, a leading animal welfare organization, today released its sixth annual pet lifesaving dataset, which gives a national overview of the number of dogs and cats that enter and exit shelters in a given year. It also includes a state-by-state no-kill priority ranking of which Georgia is sixth (based on 2021 data).
An elderly woman died and a child was left severely burned in a house fire early Monday morning in Floyd County.
The U.S. Departments of Labor and Commerce today released the “Good Jobs Principles,” a coordinated effort to provide employers, workers, federal agencies, state and local governments, and other advocates with a roadmap to advance the goal of quality jobs for all workers.
Below you will find an agenda for this evening’s Trion Town Council Meeting. The meeting will be held at Trion Town Hall at 6 PM:
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Tuesday, June 21, 2022:
The Trion Town Council will hold a meeting this evening at Trion Town Hall at 6 PM. The purpose of the meeting is to adopt the 2022-2023 fiscal year budget. The process is expected to go smoothly, as there have not been any questions or comments on the budget at previously held meetings. The town is looking to adopt a $14.9 million budget at tonight’s meeting. The town is expecting to bring in $6.4 million from its gas fund – an increase of $787,434 over last year. The town is also expecting to see more revenue from garbage collection, alcohol sales and the possibility of package liquor sales. The public is invited to this evening’s meeting.
Those who voted in the Democratic Primary in May will have the opportunity to return to the polls today to vote in the 2022 Democratic Primary Runoff Election. Chattooga County Election Superintendent Gary Woods is reminding residents that his office will be closed today for the election. Democratic voters will be selecting between two candidates for Lt. Governor, Secretary of State, Commissioner of Labor and Commissioner of Insurance. Polls will be open today from 7 AM until 7 PM.
Georgia gas prices decreased at the pump compared to a week ago. Georgia motorists are now paying an average price of $4.47 per gallon for regular unleaded gasoline (subject to change overnight). Monday’s state average was 1 cent less than a week ago, 34 cents more than last month, and $1.58 more than this time last year.
A Chattooga County man with two warning for criminal trespass was arrested after going through the trash cans at an area convenience store.
