2020 Ag Census Underway

Have you started farming or producing in the last five years?

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Man Gets DUI At Dollar General Store Parking Lot

A Sloppy Floyd Lake Road Summerville man was arrested for DUI after he backed into another vehicle in the Dollar General Store parking lot in Summerville.  Summerville Police reported that twenty-six-year-old Charles Joshua Miller backed into the vehicle with his 2006 Chevrolet Trailblazer.  Miller admitted to police that he had “three of the big cans” of beer before the accident.  After a breath sensor test, Miller was arrested on Friday of last week and booked into the Chattooga County Jail on DUI charges.

GNTC Student Participating In National PBL Competition

A trip to Chicago is not only an opportunity to compete in a national competition for one Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC) student, but also will reunite her with her sister for the first time in six years.

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Pilgrim Ministries Being Sued

 

Pilgrim Ministries has been sued by the family of one of its former residents after the resident committed suicide last year. 

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Union Street Summerville Woman Reports Car Damage

According to a report released this week by the Summerville Police Department, a Union Street woman reported damage to her 2010 Dodge Challenger.  The responding officer observed where someone had scratched the vehicle in two places.  The complainant requested a report to be filed and also requested extra patrol in the area.

Theft At Downtown Mattress Business

Summerville Police were called to Southern Bedding on First Street recently concerning a theft.  Southern Bedding owner Brad Spears told a responding officer that someone had stolen the catalytic converter off of a work truck parked on the property. The theft is believed to have taken place sometime between June 10 and June 20th of this year.  The incident was turned over to an investigator.

Georgia Ranks #6 In Pet Shelter Deaths Last Year

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 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).  

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One Dead – One Critically Injured In Floyd County House Fire

 

An elderly woman died and a child was left severely burned in a house fire early Monday morning in Floyd County.

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US Depts. Of Labor & Commerce Coordinate On Good Jobs Principals

 

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.

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Agenda For Trion Council Meeting

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:

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