Today is a Federal and state holiday, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Locally, governmental offices will be closed and there is a MLK Day service planned at a Summerville church.
The Chattooga County Board of Education will hold its first meeting of 2023 coming up this Thursday at 6 PM. This week’s meeting will be the first for newly sworn-in board members Lori Brady, Tiffany Lawrence and Bonnie Fletcher. The three were sworn-in by Chattooga County Probate Judge Gary Woods recently. The new board members will be getting up to date on the progress at the new Menlo Elementary School building and other business at Thursday’s meeting. The Chattooga County Board of Education meets at the Chattooga County Education Center, located at 206 Penn Street in Summerville, and the public is invited to attend.
The Chattooga County Land Use Commission is meeting tomorrow evening to unveil changes to the county’s land use ordinance that was hastily adopted last year by Chattooga County Commissioner Blake Elsberry.
A forty-year-old Georgia Department of Transportation maintenance department foreman was killed while cleaning up storm damage in Walker County on Friday night. Sean Kornaki was a sixteen-year veteran of the Georgia DOT.
Seized fentanyl this past week by the LaFayette Police Department
In recent days, law enforcement officers in Northwest Georgia have seized fentanyl – a dangerous drug that kills hundreds of people each day in the United States.
Georgia’s workers still have plenty of options when it comes to employment, and that includes plenty of open positions in Chattooga County.
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp was sworn in for a second term on Thursday of last week. The governor had put off his swearing in ceremony by a couple of days to be able to watch the Georgia Bulldogs win their second National Championship in California earlier in the week. Kemp, a UGA graduate, is a huge fan of the Georgia Bulldogs. The governor is promising to follow through with his campaign promises – which includes income tax refunds and property tax rebates.
Numbers for the second-largest jackpot in Mega Millions history were drawn Friday night in Atlanta, and some Georgians took home a piece of the prize. At the time of the drawing, the jackpot stood at 1.35 billion dollars.
Four days after winning the National Championship for the second season in a row, Georgia coaches hit the road to check on underclassmen and see class of 2024 and 2025 prospects in person.
A Northwest Georgia man was arrested after he assaulted the woman who had bailed him out of jail. According to Floyd County Police, thirty-five-year-old Jarad Thomas Michael Sanders of Lindale was arrested after police stopped him following the assault.