North Georgia EMC says that its members are being targeted by a phone scam. The utility that serves a large portion of Chattooga and surrounding counties says that they were made aware of the scam earlier this month.
Sunday, the Georgia Department of Transportation’s Office of Intermodal announced the launch of its Let’s Ride rural transit website and mobile app in coordination with National Rural Transit Day. The Let’s Ride website and mobile app bring rural Georgians a simplified and streamlined way to plan and book their travel with participating rural transit providers.
This Thursday, Trion High School students can rent lockers and parking spaces in preparation for the upcoming school year.
The Rome News Tribune reported over the weekend that candidates wanting to unseat Marjorie Taylor Greene to represent the Fourteenth Congressional District of Georgia have been busy raising money, and so has Rep. Greene.
The GBI is investigating an officer involved shooting that happened in Northwest Georgia late last week. According to the Georgia State Patrol, the incident started in Polk County on Friday morning when a vehicle refused to stop for a police officer in Aragon.
The Walker County Sheriff’s Department has arrested two men, charging them with the murder of a Rossville resident early Friday morning.
During the COVID-19 pandemic child abuse reports in Northwest Georgia dipped significantly, but experts say that is because many children were isolated from the people that they could report abuse to. Now the child abuse reports are on the rise in the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit.
Sad news for Chattooga County over the past weekend. The county’s last World War II Prisoner of War Veteran passed away.
Mr. Leo Lanier, Jr. 98 of Summerville, Georgia, Chattooga County’s last Prisoner of War, passed away Sunday, July 18, 2021 at his residence.
