The Trion Bulldogs boys basketball team’s season came to an end on the road last night as the Bulldogs lost to the Rabun County Tigers by a score of 54 to 42. The Chattooga Indians will be hosting the first round of GHSA basketball playoffs coming up this evening with the doors at Chattooga High School opening at 5 PM.
A stolen firearm was reported to the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office last week. According to a report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office, the complainant told a deputy that he had left the firearm with a man in Haywood Valley who had since passed away. The complainant said that someone had entered the residence where the gun was kept and stolen the firearm. The type of gun was not identified in the sheriff’s office report. The incident was turned over to an investigator.
A forty-five-year-old woman was arrested on Monday of this week after she was warned by sheriff’s deputies to leave an area around Azalea Drive. According to a report from the sheriff’s office, Sandy Wilson told a responding deputy that she was in the area looking for someone who was selling some clothes online. The deputy told the woman to leave because she was making residents uncomfortable. The deputy returned a short time later and found Wilson attempting to look in the windows of a residence. The deputy said that Wilson had her hand on the door knob of the residence when he approached her. One resident in the neighborhood told the deputy that Wilson had been peering into windows and trying to come inside residences. Wilson was arrested and charged with criminal trespass and booked into the Chattooga County Jail.
A Romanian national traveling through Chattooga County was arrested after he was found speeding, doing 91 in a 65 MPH zone.
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Reckitt, a British consumer goods company, said it would recall two batches of plant-based infant formula they produce due to “a possibility of cross-contamination with Cronobacter sakazakii.”
The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $20,107 in back wages for a Georgia bank employee who suffered wrongful retaliation and termination after the financial institution violated their rights under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act.
A Calhoun man has been found guilty of murder in Bartow County after selling drugs to a teenager.
Rep. Eddie Lumsden (R-Armuchee) released his weekly legislative report. Lumsden says that the Georgia House passed a bill that would expand eligibility for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) that would benefit extremely low-income pregnant women. He says that the bill would help move women and families toward self-sufficiency by providing monthly cash assistance. Also, the House passed a bill that would require glucose monitors to be provided for Medicaid recipients. There were also bills passed that would impact education in the state. You can see Rep. Lumsden’s complete report below:
The Coke Bottle Art in downtown Summerville has a new addition, and this one highlights disability awareness.
You are invited to a special service at New Bethel Baptist Church on Georgia Avenue in Summerville to honor Pastor Kevin Roach’s 29th Anniversary as pastor. The special speaker will be Minister Dexter Hooks in the 11 AM service and Rev. Jeffery Scott Copeland in the 2 PM service, Sunday, March 5th. Lunch will be served following the morning service. New Bethel Baptist Church welcomes you to these services.
