The Floyd County School System announced Friday that it will begin offering remote learning for students who choose to quarantine after a COVID-19 exposure.
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Sunday, September 12, 2021:

The state of Minnesota charged a Cartersville man Thursday after authorities say he stabbed a Metro Transit driver repeatedly with a pen and screwdriver.
A forty-three-year-old Menlo woman was arrested in Floyd County this past week, according to records from Rome City Police.
The race for the Governor’s office under the gold dome could come down to one major endorsement ahead of the 2022 election.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers approved Alabama Power’s request to permanently raise the normal winter pool levels and modify flood operations at Weiss and Logan Martin lakes on the Coosa River, but the changes will most likely not take effect before fall 2022.
A new multi-million dollar hotel on Lookout Mountain has local leaders excited about the possibility of increased tourism.
A large plume of smoke was visible all across Chattooga County on Friday afternoon. The fire was caused by a industrial wood chipper that was on site at a logging operation on Sling Alley Road in Lyerly. The smoke could be seen as far away as Cloudland to the west and Walker and Floyd County to the north and east. Local fire departments responded to the scene to keep the fire contained.
Police in the central-Georgia town of Wrightsville are looking for a woman that has been missing since August 20, 2021. Tamberlyn Reese-Dean is a fifty-year-old woman who is originally from LaFayette. Her family says that she may be in the Northwest Georgia area. If you have any information, please call local or Wrightsville Police at (478) 864-2180.













