A twenty-one-year-old Rome man has been indicted on accusations that he brutally stabbed and dismembered a Cumming man in November. The two men were once friends, according to reports.
Center Post Community Center will host a free movie night featuring Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown on Friday February 3, 2023 beginning at 7 PM EST. We will have ice cream sundaes available to purchase, as well as free Valentine themed door prizes that will be given away at the conclusion of the movie. Center Post Community Center is located at 8125 HWY 337 LaFayette, GA 30728. Everyone is invited to attend.
WZQZ will be your exclusive home for coverage of Chattooga and Trion in the A D1 Region 7 boys and girls basketball tournament. Times are still being determined and will be set after Friday’s regular season finales. As it currently stands the Chattooga girls and Trion boys will be in action on Friday, February 10th. The Chattooga boys and Trion girls have both secured two byes until Saturday, February the 11th. Consolation Round and Championship games will be on Tuesday, February 14th. Barry Peppers will have all of the action for you and will be joined by special guest, Casey Bramlett for the Trion contests. All games will be streamed live from Armuchee High School. Make plans to join us now.
Cayla Pemberton, an Automotive Technology student from Walker County, was named Georgia Northwestern Technical College’s (GNTC) 2023 Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership (GOAL) winner, and Salvador Gonzalez, program director and instructor of Diesel Equipment Technology, has been named the college’s 2023 Rick Perkins Instructor of the Year.
The National Fire Protection Association® (NFPA®) is urging the public to use added caution when heating their homes during the winter months, when nearly half (46 percent) of all U.S. home heating equipment fires occur. Home heating equipment is the second-leading cause of U.S. home fires and home fire injuries, and the third-leading cause of home fire deaths and direct property damage.
A post on social media this week had some people thinking that Leslie’s Burger Shack in Summerville was closing – but it was a case of mistaken identity. While it is true that the Burger Shack in nearby Cedar Bluff, Alabama is closing – the local Burger Shack on Rome Boulevard (U.S. Highway 27) in Summerville remains open.
Chattooga County Tax Commissioner Joy Hampton says that mobile home tax bills are being delayed and will not be in mailboxes this week as expected. The tax commissioner told WZQZ News that the bills are printed in Chattanooga and the printer is experiencing worker shortages and was not able to get the bills in time. Hampton said that even though mobile home taxes in Georgia are due on April 1st of each year, because of this delay, Chattooga County mobile home owners tax bills won’t be counted late until April 10, 2023. If you have any questions, you may contact the Chattooga County Tax Commissioner’s office at 706-857-0702. Remember, the Chattooga County Tax Office is open Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 7:30 AM until 5:30 PM and closed Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays and holidays.
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Wednesday, February 1, 2023:
A Chattooga County man was arrested last month in Gordon County for a probation violation. According to arrest records from the Gordon County Sheriff’s Office, forty-six-year-old Kenneth Wayne Bentley of Trion was arrested on January 18th on the probation charge stemming from his original arrest on possession of methamphetamine charges.
Summerville Police responded to a call around 4:30 AM on Tuesday morning after a woman was repeatedly banging on her mother’s window at an apartment at the Summerville Housing Authority on Alred Street. When police arrived on the scene they found twenty-five-year-old Jodeci Walker and arrested her. Walker was charged with disorderly conduct and booked into the Chattooga County Jail. Police say that Walker was previously banned from Summerville Housing Authority property and was not supposed to be at her mother’s residence.