
A Floyd County Jail inmate is facing felony charges after he reportedly assaulted a nurse at the Floyd County Jail on Sunday.

A Floyd County Jail inmate is facing felony charges after he reportedly assaulted a nurse at the Floyd County Jail on Sunday.

State Senator Jeff Mullis (R-Chickamauga) is taking aim at the organization that oversees high school sports for many public and private schools in Georgia. In an interview with public radio station WABE, Mullis said the Georgia High School Athletic (GHSA) organization was “out of control.”

While much of the valley saw little to no snow in our listening area, it was a different world on top of Lookout Mountain on Sunday morning. The snow began early on Sunday and it continued snowing most of the day, but state highways on the mountain were passable all day and into Monday morning.

Chattooga County’s only newspaper will be getting a new look, according to The Summerville News editor Gene Espy. The weekly newspaper is being forced to change the size of the publication because the size of newsprint (paper) that they have used for decades, is no longer available.
MR. GEORGE DEWAYNE CALDWELL, age 70, of Congress Street, Summerville, Georgia passed away Monday morning, January 17, 2022, following an extended illness. He was born in Chattooga County, Georgia to the late Charlie Martin and Irene Mae Ellison Caldwell on October 26, 1951. Mr. Caldwell was retired auto mechanic, in addition to Parents was preceded in death by his wife the late Patricia Carpenter Caldwell, sisters, Pamela Jean Caldwell and Barbara Caldwell, brother, Charles Leroy Caldwell.

Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Monday, January 17, 2022:

Classes will be empty today at Trion City Schools and Chattooga County Schools in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. But Chattooga students will get an extra day at home tomorrow.

Today is a Federal and state holiday – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The post office, banks and many governmental offices will be closed today.

New scams are in operation in our area frequently. North Georgia EMC says that their members should always be suspicious of callers claiming to be from any utility company.

An argument in front of a self-storage facility in Summerville led to physical altercations that landed some people in jail on Thursday of last week.