The City of Menlo is inviting little ghosts and goblins out on Halloween to celebrate with a candy walk and costume contest. The event will take place in downtown Menlo at Lawrence Park from 5 PM – 7 PM. There will be several categories for the costume contest, including overall best, scariest, cutest, and most unique. The event is sponsored by the City of Menlo and everyone is welcome to attend.
A historic number of property tax assessment appeals is hindering the tax process in Chattooga County. But it isn’t just the county government that is waiting for the appeals to be processed, it is the county’s municipalities and school systems that are also waiting in order to proceed with the tax process.
A group of pro-Ukraine Republicans in Georgia has given U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Rome a “F” for her lack of support for the embattled nation that is fighting for it’s sovereignty against Russia.
According to numbers released yesterday by the Georgia Department of Labor, unemployment edged up last month across Northwest Georgia.
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Thursday, September 21, 2023:
Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) and the Georgia Department of Education were at Menlo Elementary School on Wednesday. Crews from GPB were there to film Science in Action.
Even as the overall number of reported COVID-19 cases dropped in the Northwest Georgia area over the past week, there were two additional deaths reported in the region; one each in Floyd and Bartow counties. There were also two “probable” COVID-19 deaths over the past week in the region. Chattooga County saw the total number of reported cases drop to just two this past week. The Georgia Department of Public Health uses the term “reported cases” because some people that use home-test kits and test positive for COVID-19 don’t report those cases to their local health department. Across the state in Georgia, 2,128 new cases were reported to health officials, down from 3,539 the previous week.
Federal health officials say cake slices sold in Walmart stores could pose serious allergy risks to some individuals.
Kraft Heinz has issued a voluntary recall of 83,800 cases of its Kraft Singles American processed cheese slices after reports of a possible choking hazard.
