The 2022 Miss Trion Pageant will be held this Saturday, March 26th at the Trion High School Gym.  The event is a fundraiser for the Pride of Trion Band.  Young ladies who attend Trion School will be competing in the pageant on Saturday.  The event is sponsored by the Trion band Boosters to raise money for the band.  There is a $5 admission fee for everyone that attends the event, except for children under the age of five which are free.   Concessions will also be sold at the event.  WZQZ’s Bonnie Fletcher will be the emcee for this year’s Miss Trion Pageant.   For those participating in the pageant, there is a mandatory practice that is taking place on Friday, March 25th at 6 PM.

On Monday, March 14, 2022, George Anderson, 39 years old, plead guilty to all counts of a 28-count indictment before Hon Ralph Van Pelt, Jr. Anderson was sentenced to a life sentence with the first 25 years to be served in prison. The victim’s mother and stepmother agreed to the plea agreement to keep the victim from having to testify
and relive her night mare.

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The Town of Trion will have their March town council meeting on Thursday evening, March 24th at 6 PM at Trion Town Hall.   The council will be considering bids to re-roof the Trion Recreation Center at the meeting.  Also on the agenda, the council will be discussing the town’s 2021-2022 audit with a presentation from Christian Hatch.   The council is also expected to issue a proclamation in honor of Library Week and discuss the town’s policy on police department use of a vehicle.  You can see the entire agenda for the meeting below:

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Around 425 Georgia Power customers are in the dark this morning in an outage that stretches from Spring Creek Road to Highway 100.  WZQZ’s transmitter site on Taylor’s Ridge is in that area and we are without power.  The estimated restoration time is 6:30 AM, according to Georgia Power.

AAA Travel says cruising is making a strong comeback after the pandemic temporarily put a hold on sailings. The Auto Club Group’s travel agency reports that cruise bookings during the past four weeks are twice as strong as this time last year and expects that positive momentum to continue through the travel season.

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