The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) is working with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBl) and local coroners on a cluster of drug overdoses and possible related deaths that have occurred in Northwest Georgia since January 29, 2023, including a woman from Menlo who was found dead in Walker County this week.
The Chattooga County Republican Party will have their February monthly meeting coming up this evening at the Chattooga County Senior Center, located at 152 Senior Drive in Summerville, at 6 PM. Local Republicans will be discussing the 14th Congressional District Republican Convention that will be held at Trion High School in April of this year.
Walking barefoot through soft grass is one of life’s greatest joys — the warmth of the ground, the tickling of the blades of grass on your feet, toes wriggling free from the confinement of shoes — it is just spectacular. In the summer.
It looks like the City of Summerville and the Town of Trion could soon be sharing a building inspector. Both the Trion Town Council and the Summerville City Council have passed measures authorizing the mayor of Trion and the interim city manager of Summerville to negotiate the particulars of how sharing a joint building inspector would work.
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.
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.
