The Bulldogs and the Indians will both be fighting for a place in the Final Eight in their respective brackets tomorrow night. They’ll each take on their own set of wildcats: Chattooga (9-2) will face off against the Rabun County Wildcats (10-1), and Trion (8-3) will play the Schley County Wildcats (8-2).

Both teams narrowly secured advancement in the playoffs last week after single-point wins.

Chattooga High School hosted the Washington Bulldogs from Atlanta. A successful conversion in the second quarter earned the Indians a 1-point advantage that they held onto for the remainder of the game, pushing them into the next round of playoffs.

The Trion Bulldogs hosted the Wilcox County Patriots, and though an intense middle half put the Patriots in the lead, the Bulldogs turned it around in the last quarter. A last-minute Hail Mary touchdown tied things up at 19, and Trion’s ensuing 1-pt. conversion sent the Patriots packing.

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The Chattooga County Schools Board of Education will hold its regularly scheduled meeting tonight  at 6 PM. The meeting will be held at the Chattooga County Education Center, 206 Penn Street, Summerville, GA 30747.

WZQZ will have a reporter at the Board of Education meeting to bring you the highlights.

The Trion Town Council will also hold its monthly work session starting at 6 PM in Trion Town Hall.

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Almost 1,900 cases of Pictsweet Farms 8-ounce Steam’ables Asparagus Spears shipped to Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee have been recalled in response to concerns over listeria.

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A. O. Smith Corporation, out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has recalled about 616,000 of their Ultra-Low NOx water heaters due to fire hazard.

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Jerry Dewayne Porter reported checking account theft to the county sheriff’s office earlier this month, according to recently released records.

Porter told a sheriff’s deputy that he was informed by a notice in the mail that a check for almost $2,000 had been photographed and transported into another account.

Porter listed two possible suspects. The incident is being investigated by the county sheriff’s department.

34-year-old Menlo woman Lacy Timmons was arrested earlier this month after attempting to steal 208 dollars’ worth of merchandise from the Trion Walmart.

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A county sheriff’s deuty was dispatched to 179 W. Spring Creek Road in reference to a residential fire on November 8th.

When he arrived, fire crews were already putting the fire out. He was informed that Vera Alexander, who had called 9-1-1, that when she saw smoke coming from her microwave, she took it outside. When she went back inside, however, Alexander realized that the receptacle was smoking.

A friend of Alexander’s came over and essentially convinced her that it was not a big deal; she told Alexander that the receptacle might smoke for a few days and that it was just a wiring problem. However, a short time later, the wall had caught fire and begun to spread.

At Monday night’s meeting of the Summerville City Council, the council decided to take no action regarding a possible Robo-Call notification system for the city.

The city had received verbal approval from the commissioner’s office that the county would subsidize at least $4,000 on a proposed $6,000 system from a provider based in New York, with E-911 providing the database of phone numbers and addresses. One of the main advantages the city was looking for was to be able to contact residents who live in one particular part of the city, rather than contact every resident every time.

Ultimately, a lack of enthusiasm from city employees and the overall lack of information on different providers and options led to the council tabling the issue indefinitely, with councilman Joe Money remarking toward the end of discussion, “I don’t feel like I know any more about it than when we started.”