The Georgia Department of Driver Services (DDS) Georgia Motorcycle Safety Program (GMSP) recommends that motorcyclists focus on safe riding as a resolution for 2022.
NGEMC continues to receive periodic reports of a caller claiming to be with the utility and threatening to disconnect power unless the call recipient pays them within 30 minutes.
A Chattooga County man was arrested by law enforcement in Floyd County. Floyd County Police were looking to serve a warrant on fifty-year-old Mack Arthur Ray and found him at a residence on Clearvue Circle. As officers were serving the warrant from Chattooga County on Ray, they found him to be in possession of a Schedule I controlled substance. Ray was held for Chattooga County authorities and faces additional drug possession charges from Floyd County.
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Georgia state health officials reported on Friday there have been 100 additional deaths due to the coronavirus. The current total is 27,962.
The State of Georgia continues to be in the black with tax collections in January marking the seventh month in a row that the state has seen a positive increase in tax revenue.
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Rome, has gained yet another Republican challenger for her congressional seat. Greene represents Chattooga and surrounding counties in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Georgia Northwestern Technical College is proud to announce the students on the President’s and Dean’s Lists for the 2021 fall semester. To be eligible for the President’s List, the student must maintain a GPA of 3.8 or higher during the semester with a course load of at least 12 credit hours. To be eligible for the Dean’s List, the student must maintain a GPA of 3.5 to 3.79 during the semester with a course load of at least 12 credit hours.
Chattooga County Sheriff Mark Schrader announced on Friday evening that sheriff’s investigators along with agents from the Drug Task Force and officers with the Summerville Police Department all worked to arrest a forty-three-year-old woman who was accused of trafficking drugs.
Mrs. Peggy Lavon Richardson, age 82, of Trion, GA, died Thursday, February 3, 2022, at her residence.
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Saturday, February 5, 2022: