Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Sunday, October 24, 2021:
Five years ago this month, a family of six lost their lives in a fatal fire in Trion and the anniversary of that tragedy is a good time for area residents to consider home-fire safety.
The City of Summerville has selected Harold Tucker to serve as the city’s new public safety director. Tucker was one of three applicants for the position.
The Chattooga County Health Department and many area pharmacies continue to offer free COVID-19 vaccinations, but Chattooga County lags well behind the national and state average for immunizations against COVID-19.
A new lawsuit in Georgia — the first of its kind in the U.S. — could partly answer that question. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission last month sued a metro Atlanta company on behalf of an employee who asked to work from home because of COVID-19 concerns.
The Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office investigated to shoplifting incidents this past week at Wal-Mart in Trion.
Catoosa County has arrested a suspect in a series of deliberately set fires in northern Catoosa and Walker counties.
The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) and health districts throughout Georgia will begin offering booster doses of Moderna and Johnson & Johnson (J&J) COVID vaccine Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021, pending guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These boosters are in addition to previously approved booster doses of Pfizer vaccine.