Lawmakers in Atlanta heard from the Georgia Division of Family & Children Services as the General Assembly got underway in Atlanta. DFCS workers say that one problem that needs to be addressed is the number of children forced to stay in hotels – a practice called “hotelling” – because no foster homes can be found for them.
Chattooga County businesses and residents affected by flooding over Labor Day Weekend in 2022 , are eligible to apply for low-interest disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration and the SBA has set up a Disaster Loan Outreach Office in Summerville, but time is running out to visit that office – it will close on Thursday of this week.
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Sunday, January 22, 2023:
A protest against the planned construction of a police department training center in an Atlanta suburb turned violent on its fringes Saturday, with groups smashing windows and damaging a police vehicle and other property, news reports and authorities said.
Senorise Perry has accepted a coaching position at Wofford College in South Carolina. The Chattooga High School alumni and former pro-football player will be running backs coach at Wofford. Perry spent seven seasons in the NFL with the Bears, Dolphins, Bills and Titans from 2014-20. Wofford College is on a 175 acre campus in Spartanburg, South Carolina. It is one of the few four-year institutions in the southeastern United States founded before the American Civil War that still operates on its original campus.
The Rome News Tribune reports that a pedestrian who was struck by a truck and knocked off the Second Avenue Bridge Thursday afternoon died overnight, and police are still investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident, according to Rome police.
The driver involved in a single-vehicle accident on Orchard Hill Road in Summerville remains in serious condition and the accident remains under investigation by the Georgia State Patrol.
With statewide unemployment at 3%, Georgia still has thousands of open jobs that need to be filled, that according to Labor Commissioner Bruce Thompson who was recently sworn in as Georgia’s tenth Commissioner of Labor by Governor Brian Kemp.
The HeART Project, a partnership between the Rome Area Council for the Arts (RACA) and AdventHealth Redmond to promote art and a heart healthy lifestyle each February, is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2023.
There have been two fatal wrecks in neighboring Cherokee County, Alabama within a few days of each other – both happened last week.
