
Chattooga County Tax Commissioner Joy Hampton says that mobile home owners in the county can be expecting to see their 2022 tax bills in the mail any day now.

Chattooga County Tax Commissioner Joy Hampton says that mobile home owners in the county can be expecting to see their 2022 tax bills in the mail any day now.

The Calhoun Police Department reported on Thursday morning that an officer was involved in a shooting with a suspect.

A forty-eight-year-old Summerville man was being held at the Cherokee County, Alabama Detention Center on Thursday on a variety of theft and burglary charges.

A longtime Chattooga educator passed away at his home this week. Mr. Jack Herring was former principal at Chattooga High School from 1972-1988. He also served as an assistant principal at the high school and as assistant school superintendent of the Chattooga County School System.

Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Thursday, January 6, 2022 (UPDATED AT 8:36 AM) :
Strong. Generous. Loving. Adventurous. Fair. Firm. Charming. These are only a few words to describe Jack Ross Herring, 85, who passed away peacefully on Wednesday, January 5th, 2022, at the home he built in Summerville, Georgia in 1974.
Mrs. Janice Chapman Bennett, age 85 of Summerville, passed away on Monday, January 3, 2022.

The Georgia Department of Public Health has announced the allocation of Merck and Pfizer oral antiviral treatments for COVID-19, to select retail pharmacies in Georgia. Initial supplies from the federal government are very limited… but additional allocations should arrive in the coming weeks as production increases.

LaFayette convenience store personnel called Police when a female FedEx Driver asked to use the restroom and wouldn’t come out. A female employee checked and said the woman was not moving inside the stall.

The UGA Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Interprofessional Training Program is an online, self-paced program that trains health and social service professionals to provide screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT) services for patients who may have hazardous and harmful drinking and/or drug using patterns.