The Trion Recreation Department is closing early today to travel for District Tournaments. The Spring Sports deadline has now been extended to Monday, February 20th. The age control date for spring sports is September 1, 2023. A copy of the child’s birth certificate needs to be on file. If you need more information, you can contact the Trion Recreation Department at 706-734-2011
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Friday, February 17, 2023:
The Chattooga County Land Development Commission has set a public meeting to give the final approval on the Atrium Health Floyd freestanding emergency room that is being built next to Walmart in Trion.
A thirty-year-old Cartersville man who died in a motorcycle wreck earlier this week in Rome had attended Trion City Schools. The Georgia State Patrol has determined that there were three vehicles involved in that accident.
The Internal Revenue Service says that Georgia residents who received state-issued relief checks in 2022 will not have to report that money as income when they file their income taxes. Officials say they won’t challenge the taxability of payments associated with general welfare and disaster, which would include the refunds received by many Georgia residents last year. The guidance comes several days after the federal government recommended Georgians who received those payments hold off on filing their taxes. Now that the decision has been made, the Internal Revenue Service wants people to move forward with their income tax filings. Residents of Georgia, Massachusetts, South Carolina and Virginia will not owe federal income tax on their special state payments as long as those payments were a refund of state taxes they paid and for which they “claimed the standard deduction or itemized their deductions but did not receive a tax benefit (for example, because the $10,000 tax deduction limit applied).”
A Georgia lawmaker is working to protect the rights of renters, especially those who find themselves in unacceptable living conditions. Without rent control measures in the state, renters can pay steep prices to rent their home and state laws don’t always protect them from a lack of heat, lack of air conditioning, lack of water, or broken appliances. A proposed bill from State Representative Marvin Lim would aim to clarify what qualifies as livable rental housing. Rep. Lim says his bill specifies standard upkeep and repairs that landlords should address as well as acceptable conditions related to things like garbage, plumbing, and water supply. A different bill in the General Assembly would require some landlords to compile data on serious crimes and report that data to tenants and prospective tenants.
The number of reported COVID-19 cases in Chattooga County dropped from seven to five over the past week, according to numbers released on Wednesday by the Georgia Department of Public Health. While the number of COVID-19 cases were down in most of Northwest Georgia over the past week, there were two deaths reported – one each in Polk and Floyd Counties. The Georgia Department of Public Health moved from a daily reporting system to a weekly reporting system last year.
A thirty-nine-year-old LaFayette man was accused of stealing three Klondike ice cream bars from the Family Dollar store in Summerville. The man reportedly had the three ice creams in his backpack when police found him near Jack’s in Summerville. The man resisted arrest and was tased by a Summerville Police officer. The clerk at Family Dollar had called 911 after she followed the suspect outside of the store and asked him if he was going to pay for his Klondike bars. According to the store clerk, the suspect just continued walking like he didn’t hear her. The store manager then called 911. Police took Wayne Mack Martin of LaFayette into custody and charged him with shoplifting, terroristic threats and acts, giving false information to a police officer and obstruction of law enforcement officers.
One in 7 patients entering a hospital will need a blood transfusion. At the same time, only about 3% of Americans give blood. The American Red Cross needs more people to make and keep appointments to give blood or platelets in February and has three great reasons to do so:
In recognition of Black History Month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 4 Administrator Daniel Blackman and USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) Georgia State Executive Director Arthur Tripp co-hosted a roundtable discussion at Fort Valley State University directly engaging with underserved and/or underrepresented agricultural producers to learn about challenges, concerns and opportunities where the EPA and USDA FSA can provide support.
