A potentially deadly new virus is circulating among ticks in Georgia, according to scientists at Emory University. The Heartland virus was first identified in Missouri in 2009 and made two people severely ill.
On Wednesday, March 16, at approximately 12:11 pm an officer with the Adairsville Police Department was dispatched to the lobby of the Adairsville Police Department in reference to a missing person report.
A fight in the customer service center at Walmart in Chattooga County prompted deputies to respond to the scene on March 12th.
The Georgia Center of Innovation, a strategic arm of the Georgia Department of 
Economic Development (GDEcD), hosted hundreds of attendees at the March 16 Georgia Logistics Summit, where experts offered insights on the digitalization of the logistics industry and on harnessing needed talent. Created in 2009 to bring together all aspects of the logistics industry, the Georgia Logistics Summit has grown to become one of the Southeast’s most important logistics and supply chain-centered events.
Last Saturday, a man reported that the wheel came off his vehicle and struck a vehicle on a used car lot in Summerville. Joe Stricklin told a responding deputy that he was driving on Highway 27 just north of Dot Johnson Drive in his 2015 Chevrolet pickup truck when the wheel came off and struck a Jeep on the lot of Legacy Auto Sales. The deputy observed where the wheel struck the Jeep and filed a report for insurance purposes.
Next week is National Agriculture Week and the Georgia Department of Agriculture has declared it Georgia Agricultural Week as well. Tuesday in National Ag Day and hundreds of elementary students in Chattooga County will have the opportunity to find out more about Georgia’s number one industry – agriculture.
WHAT: Weather permitting, crews will continue resurfacing portions of State Route 1/US 27 between Armuchee High School and SR 156. Lanes will periodically be closed at different locations along the route while crews resurface the roadway.
WHEN: Monday, March 21 through Friday, March 25 from 8 a.m. until 7 p.m.
WHERE: Lanes will be periodically closed on SR 1/US 27 between Armuchee High School and SR 156.
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Advisory: Motorists are advised to expect delays, exercise caution, and reduce their speed while traveling through work zones. Before heading out, get real-time information on work status and traffic conditions. Call 511, visit 511ga.org, or download the Georgia 511 app. Our maintenance team members who repair roads and bridges and our project teams who oversee construction projects are continuing their essential work, while following sanitary work practices prescribed by health agencies to protect themselves and the public from the coronavirus, as are most state DOTs in the U.S.
The Chattooga Board of Education approved a four-day week school calendar at their monthly meeting on Thursday of this week.
Former Menlo School Principal Mark Pickle has dropped out of the race for the Republican nomination for the Menlo seat on the Chattooga County Board of Education.
Mr. Billy Donald Chadwick, age 86, of Cloudland, GA, died Wednesday, March 16, 2022.