Chattooga County Commissioner Blake Elsberry informed the Chattooga County Agricultural Fair Council last week that he is removing former public works director Joe Reed from the Fair Council and replacing Mr. Reed with current Chattooga County Public Works Director Yancey Robinson.
A twenty-two-year-old Fort Payne woman drowned in swollen creek waters sometime between Saturday night and Sunday morning.
Georgia gas dropped slightly at the pump compared to a week ago. Georgia motorists are paying an average price of $2.89 per gallon for regular unleaded gasoline. Monday’s state average was two cents less than a week ago, five cents less than last month and 97 cents more than this time last year.
A Trion resident’s photography is now gracing the walls of U.S. Representative Marjorie Greene’s office in Washington, D.C.
Chattooga County Democratic Party Chair Cynthia Hubler says that tonight’s meeting has been canceled due to the weather. The meeting was to have been held at the open-air pavilion on West Washington Street. A new date for the meeting has not been set at this time.
In advance of more expected rain, the City of Summerville began passing out sandbags for homes and businesses.
Chattooga County’s government, along with the municipal governments of the Town of Trion and the City of Summerville, have issued a joint-emergency declaration after Tropical Storm Claudette stalled out over the area and produced heavy rains that led to the flooding of homes and businesses.
