A bill has been introduced in the Georgia General Assembly that would introduce “instant runoff” elections for Georgia municipal elections as a test run for statewide races.
Scouting for Foodis one of the Boy Scouts of America’s best known national service projects and is conducted by virtually every local Boy Scout council across the nation on an annual basis. Locally, Scouts in Chattooga County will be collecting food this coming Saturday, February 11, 2023.
Rain and muddy conditions have slowed outside work at the new Menlo Elementary School, but Chattooga County School Supt. Jared Hosmer says inside work at the new facility is progressing. Workers are installing wiring and plan to have the building’s heating and cooling systems installed in the near future. That will allow for the installation of flooring, which requires acclamation before installation. The building is located directly behind the current school facilities, parts of which date back over 80 years. Plans are to be able to move into the new facility sometime this spring or early summer. Work on the new school facility began in October of 2021.
Both the City of Menlo and the Town of Lyerly have scheduled council meetings on Tuesday of this week. The Menlo City Council will meet on Tuesday at 6 PM at Menlo City Hall, located at the corner of Edison Street and Highway 48 in Menlo. The Lyerly Town Council will hold their monthly meeting for February at 7 PM at the Lyerly Town Hall located at 6086 Highway 114 in Lyerly. The public is welcome to attend both meetings.
A jury found a Rome man guilty Thursday of malice murder and other related charges in the 2021 killing of Scott Dennis Hayes.
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Saturday, February 4, 2023:
For those of us old enough to remember, a trip to the beach in Florida or perhaps to Nashville, involved a stop at one of the many Stuckey’s stores along the highways in the South. The company all but went away, but the granddaughter of the founder of Stuckey’s says the company is making a comeback.
Summerville Police took a twenty-year-old man to jail this week for doing “burnouts aggressively” at the Marvin’s Building Supply parking lot. Police say around 8 PM on Wednesday, Gary Scott Carroll of a Highland Avenue, Summerville address, was observed burning rubber and “doing donuts backwards” with his 1999 Pontiac Grand Am. Police said Carroll was “endangering himself and others” with his actions.
Chattooga County residents are being urged to sign up for a new service, “TextMyGov” that will allow citizens to communicate with the county government. According to the service’s website, the service will allow users the ability to text things like, watermain breaks and road issues and receive emergency alerts from the county.
Fire ravaged a historic old building in Mentone late Thursday night and early Friday morning. Firefighters from around the area battled the blaze at the Hitching Post – a building with a long history in Mentone, and that was undergoing renovations at the time of the fire.