Lost Saturday our 2 friendly dogs, Yellow Part Retreiver and Black Part Retreiver, escaped from Pen. If seen please Call 706 936-3250. Berryton Area. $50 Reward if found/returned.
Residents of the Teloga Community are being invited to attend the annual meeting of the Teloga Volunteer Fire Department. The meeting will be held next week on Monday, March 21st. The meeting will get underway at 7 PM at the Teloga Fire Hall, located at 10322 Highway 337. Members of the community are urged to attend.
A Georgia Senate committee wants to turn off the fundraising taps during legislative sessions on some money-raising groups.
The Summerville City Council will be meeting this evening at 5 PM at Summerville City Hall. The council will be discussing several items including a bridge widening project on Highway 48 that will require the city move utilities. Also, the council is being asked to approve a permit for a downtown, outside beauty pageant that will be held in May. A local restaurant is asking for permission to put up a new sign in the historic district. Also, the council will have the first reading of the fiscal mid-year budget and council members will consider a proposal to reduce retirement for city employees from thirty-years to twenty-five years of service. You can see the complete agenda below and see instructions on how to attend tonight’s council meeting remotely:
Qualifying for local offices in Chattooga County closed at noon on Friday of last week. Two candidates will assume office next year without having to campaign.
Georgia state senators are rejecting a bill that would let drivers use cellphones mounted to their windshield or dashboard while at traffic lights and stop signs.
Starting tonight and running through this Sunday, the Georgia DOT says that crews will be updating signs on I-75. The work on the overhead signs will take place at night and will affect portions of the right northbound lanes between mileposts 320 and 333. The exit ramps along the thirteen miles of interstate highway will still be accessible and will not be affected by the work on the signage. The work will take place between 8 PM and 6 AM each night.
Summerville Police arrested a passenger in a vehicle after a traffic stop on Highway 48. According to a report released late last week, police pulled over a vehicle that was driving erratically. Officers told the driver that they were concerned about her driving. The driver, identified as Bonnie Reynolds told officers her license was expired. As police were talking with the passenger, identified as Courtney Stallings, she admitted to having used methamphetamine that day. Stallings also turned over a clear plastic bag with suspected methamphetamine to officers. Stallings was arrested on drug possession charges and booked into the Chattooga County Jail.
After almost a year without a county convenience center for trash disposal, Menlo area residents will soon be getting a place to take their trash without having to drive all the way to Summerville.
A Summerville man was arrested after he reportedly walked into an apartment at Summerville Gardens without being invited in. Police say that the man was banned from being on the premises of the apartment complex.