Georgia High School students may soon be able to choose “Heavy Equipment Operator” as a career path through the state’s CTAE Training Career Pathways program.
Here are the latest health inspection scores from the Chattooga County Environmental Health Department for the first half of December, 2021:
Habitat for Humanity – Coosa Valley will open applications for home ownership for families in Floyd, Chattooga, and Polk counties beginning Friday, December 17, 2021.
The Georgia legislature’s Senate committee studying the age of mandatory education is recommending the state raise the minimum age a child can drop out of school from 16 to 17 while improving wraparound services to encourage students to graduate.
A Rossville man was convicted for the rape and molestation of his three minor stepchildren by a Walker County jury following a three-day trial before Judge Brian House ending on December 1, 2021. Steven Brian Higginbotham, 48, was convicted of 20 total counts including multiple counts of rape, aggravated sodomy, aggravated sexual battery, incest, and child molestation stemming from years of sexual abuse.
It’s been a year since the first shipments of COVID vaccine arrived in Georgia and since then, more than 6 million Georgians have received at least one dose of vaccine, nearly 5.5 million Georgians are fully vaccinated, and 1.2 Georgians have gotten booster doses.
The Salvation Army of Rome, serving Floyd, Polk & Chattooga counties, has received a grant of $13,500 from the International Paper Foundation.
A popular Alabama band tribute group called “Boys in the Band” took to the stage recently at the DeSoto Theater in Fort Payne in a concert to raise money for mental health awareness. To the band’s surprise, a couple of famous guests showed up to make the concert even more special.
Mrs. Evelyn Hendrix Jones, age 100, of Summerville, GA, passed away Wednesday December 15, 2021 at her residence.
Mrs. Patricia Kaye Hamby, 79, of Summerville, passed away at her residence on Tuesday, December 14, 2021. She was born on May 22, 1942, daughter of the late Allen and Grace Owens Mahle. She was a member of the Menlo United Methodist Church and Owner/Operator of Country Crossroads Antiques.