The Chattooga County Chamber celebrated the 2023 Leadership Chattooga graduation at Sweet P’s in Trion on Monday of this week.
AAA projects a record-setting 3.6 million Georgians will travel 50 miles or more during the upcoming year-end holiday travel period*, spanning from December 23rd to January 1st. The Auto Club Group expects a little over 99,000 (2.8%) more Georgia travelers than last year.
Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tyler Harper announced that the Georgia Department of Agriculture Ag Inputs Division’s Feed Program passed their Animal Food Regulatory Program Standards (AFRPS) audit conducted by the Office of the United States Food and Drug Administration. AFRPS establishes a uniform foundation for the design and management of state programs responsible for regulating animal food. The FDA conducted its audit on November 6-7, 2023, and found that the GDA Ag Inputs Division maintained full implementation and conformance with all 11 program standards.
A twenty-year-old Decatur, Alabama man was arrested in Chattooga County over the weekend after he was caught speeding and driving in an erratic manner. According to a report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office, an Atrium Health Floyd ambulance driver called Chattooga 911 on Saturday morning, shortly before 2 AM, to report two vehicles that were speeding and driving recklessly on Highway 27 near the Floyd County line. Deputies were able to get one of the vehicles stopped and spoke with the driver, identified as Ethan Wade Bates. Deputies discovered that Bates license was suspended in Alabama. Bates was arrested and charged with driving on suspended or revoked license and was booked into the Chattooga County Jail.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is calling on the General Assembly to take immediate action to cement the vital election security measure that only U.S citizens can vote in U.S. elections into the Georgia Constitution. Georgia currently has the most seamless citizenship verification process in the nation but liberal groups are trying to use the Courts to overturn this vital election security measure prior to the 2024 election.
To kick off the new year and inspire people living in Northwest Georgia to take charge of their health, AdventHealth Redmond, together with local health and wellness vendors, presents the NWGA Health and Wellness Expo on Saturday, January 6 from 10 am to 2 pm.
Two area churches are having food distribution events this week in Chattooga County. Central Avenue Baptist Church in Trion will be passing out food tomorrow, Thursday, December 14th and Pentecostal Powers Ministries in Lyerly will be passing out free food on Friday, December 15th.
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Tuesday, December 12, 2023:
When a non-verbal patient who had been at Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center for about a year had to be transported to Savannah, Chattooga County resident and Atrium Health Floyd employee Mandie Deering knew just what to do.
A forty-two-year-old Rome woman who was accused of stealing a financial transaction card earlier this year at a restaurant on Martha Berry Highway, barricaded herself inside the Krystal Restaurant on Turner McCall Boulevard in Rome last week.