Professors are protesting a controversial policy change approved yesterday by the Board of Regents that they say will give administrators the power to terminate tenured faculty.
A Trion woman was arrested last week at Wal-Mart in LaFayette after she was accused of leaving the store with over $278 worth of items that she didn’t pay for. Reports from the LaFayette Police Department said that twenty-two-year-old Aleigha Faith Young paid for $50 worth of items at the self-checkout, but failed to scan the rest of the items she took from the store. Young was arrested and taken to the Walker County Jail on shoplifting charges.
Summerville native Judy Gilreath finished her final week as school superintendent of the Whitfield County School System this week, after announcing her retirement back in June.
The Georgia State Patrol is investigating an accident that happened on Rocky Hollow Road on Friday afternoon. According to reports, the accident was a single-vehicle accident. The incident happened at a sharp curve, located at 209 Rocky Hollow Road. A GMC Envoy overturned. The driver and a passenger received only minor injuries.
According to the latest numbers from the Georgia Department of Public Health, 55 percent of all Georgians have received at least a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, while 49 percent have been fully vaccinated. The latest numbers show that there have been 23,869 confirmed COVID deaths in Georgia since the beginning of the pandemic. There have been over 83,000 Georgia residents hospitalized from COVID and over 13,000 ended up in ICU. Get more information about COVID-19 and vaccination in Georgia from the state Department of Public Health website at www.dph.georgia.gov.
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Saturday, October 16, 2021:
Big wins for both local teams on Friday night as the Chattooga Indians defeated Dade County with a final score of 28-13 and the Trion Bulldogs win over BEST Academy 38-6. Chattooga now has a five game winning streak and is 4-0 in Region play.
For the fifth year in a row, Georgia students beat the national average on the ACT, with the state’s average score increasing even as the national average dropped.
The country music group Alabama has been singing and touring for over fifty years, and recently band front-man Randy Owen announced that his bandmate and cousin, Jeff Cook, would no longer be touring with him and their cousin Teddy Gentry.
Chattooga County Registrar Sheena Weaver released information on Friday morning about the number of voters who have participated in early voting for the municipal races in Summerville, Trion and Menlo.