The City of Summerville fireworks show sponsored in part by the Menlo Tillotson Grant and the Chattooga County Fair Council is scheduled to be held on Friday, September 11, 2020 following the Chattooga High School football game. The fireworks will not start until the football game has ended, with an anticipated start time of 10PM. There will be no other planned activities other than the fireworks show.
As emergency personnel were working an accident scene on Highway 273 early Tuesday in Leesburg, a motorcyclist refused to stop and ran the roadblock – almost striking a Leesburg firefighter in the process.
The Trion Lions Club and the Connect City Church in Summerville are giving away free food to anyone in need from 10 a.m. – noon this Saturday at the church’s parking lot behind BB&T Bank. It’s a drive-through food distribution.
A letter is going out to all Chattooga County School parents and guardians telling them that all schools will now be able to provide free meals to ALL students, free of charge, starting now and going until December 31st – or until all the federal funds have been depleted. You can see all the details in the letter below:
Georgia gas prices decreased at the pump compared to a week ago. Georgia motorists are now paying an average price of $2.03 per gallon for regular unleaded gasoline. Monday’s state average is 1 cent less than a week ago, 6 cents more than last month, and 35 cents less than this time last year.
Georgia Power crews returned home after spending more than a week in Louisiana assisting with restoration after Hurricane Laura made landfall along the Louisiana Gulf Coast. Approximately 100 personnel and crews left from across the state to make their way to staging locations in Baton Rouge before receiving assignments to support restoration in Louisiana.
Law officers have apprehended one of two Texas fugitives wanted after a Georgia deputy was shot during a traffic stop, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Tuesday.
Georgia’s top elections official said Tuesday that his office has identified about 1,000 cases of “potential double voting” in the June primary election — a felony he’s determined to see prosecuted.
Police and the GBI are searching for a twenty-nine-year-old Texas fugitive after he fired on police, striking a Whitfield County Sheriff’s Deputy, and fled.
Next week, Chattooga County school students will return to a four-day, in-class, school week. Students were off yesterday due to Labor Day.
