This week, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp announced that SOLARCYCLE, an advanced technology-based solar recycling company, will create more than 600 new full-time jobs in Polk County, investing an estimated $344 million in a solar glass manufacturing facility in Cedartown. The facility will be the first of its kind in the country to use recycled materials from retired solar panels to make new solar glass.
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Legislation aimed at limiting local property tax increases overwhelmingly cleared the Georgia Senate Thursday.
Habitat for Humanity – Coosa Valley is ready to party like its 1984. The non profit announced last week that it has planned a full slate of events in the next several months to celebrate its 40th anniversary.
A thirty-six-year-old Trion man is facing felony murder charges in connection with the shooting death of forty-four-year-old Nathaniel James Pease of an Old Highway 27 address. Reports indicate that Pease and the suspect, Dakota Dodd, had been in an ongoing domestic argument at the time of the shooting. Dodd surrendered himself to Chattooga County Sheriff Mark Schrader around 2 AM on Valentine’s Day morning after the shooting on Tuesday night. He was booked into the Chattooga County Jail on the felony murder charges as well as charges of aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime. The Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office and the GBI continue to investigate the incident.
Grading work began this week on the new Zaxby’s location that is being built at the Hurley Crossing Shopping Center just north of Summerville on Highway 27. The new Zaxby’s is across Highway 27 from the recently opened Waffle House. Zaxby’s is a Georgia-based fast food chain that has spread across the South in recent years. The restaurant chain currently operates locations in 19 states.
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Friday, February 16, 2024:
A thirty-one-year-old Chattooga County man was arrested after running from the Georgia State Patrol. According to the Georgia State Patrol public information office, Levi Tony Noles led troopers on a high speed chase on Wildlife Lake Road in Summerville on Wednesday of this week. The chase ended with Noles crashing the motorcycle and fleeing on foot. He was quickly apprehended and taken to the Chattooga County Emergency Department for treatment before being booked into the Chattooga County Jail. Noles was charged with fleeing and attempting to elude, expired tag, following too closely, failure to maintain a single lane, hit and run – leaving the scene of an accident, improper display of license plate, improper class of drivers license, no insurance, possession of marijuana less than an ounce, reckless driving, use of a license plate to conceal or misrepresent and willful obstruction of law enforcement officers.
