On May 24, 2023, Stewart Arra Kelley was convicted of four counts of Child Molestation and three counts of Sexual Battery Against a Child Under the age of 16 by a Walker County jury following a two-day trial before the Honorable Judge Brian House.
The Georgia State Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation recently met to allocate funding for 2024 mission-delivery projects in the Peach State. After the reviewing and ranking process, the NWTF Georgia State Chapter budgeted $162,883 for 18 wild turkey habitat projects, $33,815 for wildlife law enforcement equipment, $43,000 for outreach and education programs and $67,275 for conservation land acquisition, along with a $10,000 commitment to be used across the 18-state region for the NWTF’s new Habitat for the Hatch Initiative.
Knowing the fundamental importance of early literacy and students’ ability to read proficiently by third grade, the Georgia Department of Education is recognizing schools with exceptional achievement or growth in third-grade reading as 2022-2023 Literacy Leaders. Chattooga County School Supt. Jared Hosmer said on Tuesday that Leroy Massey Elementary and Lyerly Elementary were chosen as Literacy Leaders because 15% or more of their 3rd grade students showed growth from 2021-22 to 2022-23 on the Milestones.
There’s Hope For The Hungry will be at South Summerville Baptist Church on Wednesday September 20th. They will be distributing food from 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Tuesday, September 19, 2023:
A fifty-one-year-old woman was arrested on Saturday after police say that she was intoxicated in the roadway. Police had been called to the scene by the suspect’s aunt who said that the suspect had taken a pair of her shoes. By the time the police arrived, the shoes had been returned, but the suspect was walking down the street being loud and boisterous. When police asked the woman how much she had to drink, she told the officers “35-40” and said she had “$2 shots from the bootlegger”. Police arrested Charity Machette Allgood on Hawkins Drive near State Street in Summerville on Saturday evening. She was booked into the Chattooga County Jail on charges of public intoxication.
A fifty-four-year-old Summerville woman was jailed on Sunday after she was abusive towards EMT personnel on three separate occasions.
Georgia gas prices continue to decline at the pump compared to a week ago. Georgia drivers are now paying an average price of $3.39 per gallon for regular unleaded gasoline (subject to change overnight).
On Saturday, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Law Enforcement Division responded to a call in Floyd County about hunters who were hunting without permission. According to the DNR, four people were charged in connection with the call. One of the hunters had killed a deer out of the caretaker of the property’s deer stand. It is illegal to hunt on land without permission in Georgia. If the land is posted, the hunter should have written permission from the landowner before hunting.
Throughout the month of October, the AdventHealth cancer care teams are challenging our community once again to light porches pink across Northwest Georgia to spread awareness of breast cancer.