
Former State Representative Colton Moore has qualified to run for the Georgia State Senate to represent the 53rd District which covers Dade, Walker, Catoosa and Chattooga Counties.

Former State Representative Colton Moore has qualified to run for the Georgia State Senate to represent the 53rd District which covers Dade, Walker, Catoosa and Chattooga Counties.

Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC) graduate Hannah Beth Reeves probably never dreamed her career teaching small children would lead to her recognition as Georgia’s Early Childhood Educator of the Year for preschool.

With the announcement by State Senator Jeff Mullis (R-Chickamauga) on Monday that he wouldn’t seek reelection, WZQZ News reached out to some of his former challengers to find out if they had plans to seek the now-open seat. Trion Mayor Lanny Thomas opposed Mullis in the Republican Primary in 2016. Mayor Thomas gave us the following statement:

A Chattooga County jury returned a guilty verdict in a murder case on Friday, February 25, 2022, in Summerville, Georgia. Defendant Angela Rachelle Rowland, 54, was convicted in less than 20 minutes of Malice Murder, Felony Murder, Aggravated Assault, and two counts of Possession of a Firearm During the Commission of a Felony.

A man being sought in connection with a deadly hit-and-run last month in the Plainville area was booked into the Gordon County Jail this week.

Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Tuesday, March 8, 2022:

Last week, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp announced his decision to appoint someone to fill the seat of retiring Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Court Judge Ralph VanPelt.

Global health service company Cigna, announced last month that fifteen of their employees nationwide had been selected for a “Community Ambassador Fellowship Program.”

The application period for the Summerville-Trion Rotary Club is now open. The deadline to apply for the $1,000 scholarships is March 30, 2022. Students must live in Chattooga County in order to be considered for the scholarship. You can find all the details below:

For months, inmates at Georgia’s second-largest prison for women have been subjected to brutal acts of violence, including at least three alleged sexual assaults, as a gang of inmates has bullied and intimidated the prison’s understaffed security detail, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation has found.