The Friends of Sloppy Floyd State Park invite you to the Second Annual First Day Hikes.
The arrival of the New Year will be followed by the start of a new legislative session. The Georgia General Assembly is slated to begin their 2022 session on Monday, January 10th.
A Ringgold teenager was arrested in the early morning hours of Wednesday after a deputy observed some traffic violations and pulled the car he was driving over.
The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) and hospitals around the state are asking people to not use emergency rooms to test for COVID-19 unless you are showing severe symptoms that require urgent medical attention.
As COVID-19 numbers continue to rise in the community, Atrium Health Floyd is further limiting visitation at all locations, including Floyd Medical Center, Polk Medical Center and Cherokee Medical Center. Most patients will be allowed one designated visitor. Other inpatient and outpatient areas in all three communities will be affected. Requests for additional visitors due to special circumstances, such as end-of-life, will be considered on a case-by-case basis. The changes take effect Thursday, Dec. 30 at 8 a.m. Most hospitalized patients will be allowed one designated visitor:
Mr. Kaden Daniel Brown left this world in his sleep at his home in Summerville, GA on December 26, 2021.
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Wednesday, December 29, 2021:
Mr. Jimmy Lynn Maddux, age 73 of the Waterville Community, Trion, passed away Monday, December 27, 2021 at the Redmond Regional Medical Center.
NGEMC is reporting over 1,600 people without power in Chattooga County. The outage was reported at 4:22 AM and is affecting people from Ridgeway Drive in Trion to Fish Hatchery Road / Back Berryton Road in Summerville. A smaller outage is being reported in the Halls Valley Area that extends from just north of Stoleman Road into a small portion of Walker County.
Attorney General Chris Carr and Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) Commissioner Kathleen E. Toomey, M.D., M.PH, are warning Georgians to beware of potential scams related to the heightened demand for COVID-19 testing.