
The Floyd County Jail was being decontaminated Wednesday night after a staff member tested positive for COVID-19.

The Floyd County Jail was being decontaminated Wednesday night after a staff member tested positive for COVID-19.
The Chattooga Young Farmers have a chapter meeting scheduled for Thursday, August 13th at 7 pm at the Chattooga Agriculture Center.
Floyd Medical Center has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award for the sixth consecutive year.
Chattooga County School Superintendent Jared Hosmer spoke with reporters on Thursday afternoon after the first day of school for students in the system.
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Thursday, July 30, 2020
The Georgia Division of Family & Children Services (DFCS) partnered with the Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) to provide food benefits to families with children who receive free or reduced school lunch. The Family First Coronavirus Response Act of 2020 allows the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) to facilitate the distribution of the Pandemic-Electronic Benefit Transfer Program (P-EBT) to eligible students statewide.
Sheriff Mark Schrader says that he has taken extra steps at the Chattooga County Jail after about half of his jail staff tested positive for COVID-19 over the past few days.

One of Chattooga County’s well-known veterans is going to be celebrating his 95th birthday next month. Billy Locklear received the Purple Heart and many other medals for his service in WWII. He served between 1943 and 1945, which included fighting at the Battle of Saipan in June 1944.
The Better Business Bureau says that with kids headed back to school during the COVID-19 pandemic, many parents are choosing to do back-to-school shopping online.