The Summerville City Council will hold a meeting coming up this evening at 5 PM at Summerville City Hall.  The meeting will be open to the public, but you can also watch the meeting online or listen in.  (Find instructions below).  The council’s agenda is full of items dealing with the ongoing water issue that has plagued the city since earlier this year.  The city is buying water from the Chattooga County Water District and the Town of Trion to meet obligations to some water customers.  The council is expected to approve thousands of dollars in expenditures to those other districts at tonight’s meeting.  You can see the full agenda and instructions for “virtual attendance” below:

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Statewide, health officials released data late last week showing that 82% of Georgia’s critical care beds are in use, matching the largest share filled with patients since officials began releasing statistics in mid-April. However, not every patient in a critical care bed has COVID-19.

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Millions of taxpayers are taking advantage of the IRS decision to push back the tax filing deadline due to the coronavirus pandemic. But with the new tax filing deadline of July 15 just days away, those taxpayers need to take some important steps now to get their returns — and payments — to the IRS before then.

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Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Sunday, July 12, 2020:

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North Georgia EMC’s 84th Annual Meeting will be the first of its kind in the history of the cooperative. The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent guidelines regarding large gathers prompted the member-led Board of Directors to enact emergency provision to hold this year’s Annual Meeting entirely online.

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On Friday,  Georgia’s state government released preliminary numbers showing that the state had more than a $1 billion drop in tax collections for fiscal year 2019-2020.

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The past several months have been difficult at best for Chattooga County’s largest employer, Mount Vernon Mills.  In addition to the economic pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic, the mill’s future under current ownership has been in question.

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The Summerville City Council will be holding a meeting on Monday evening at 5 PM at Summerville City Hall.  According to an agenda released on Friday, the council will be asked to approve payments for bills the city has incurred purchasing water from neighboring water districts.

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