Georgia U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is introducing legislation to ban stock trading by members of Congress.
The family of a Georgia State Patrol cadet who died during training last year has received a mortgage-free home thanks to the Tunnel to Towers Foundation.
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Friday, September 15, 2023:
Tonight is a big night for both of our local high school football teams. The Trion Bulldogs are ranked 5th in the state an will go on the road to Shannon, GA tonight to face their toughest test of the season in the Model Blue Devils. Both Trion and Model are undefeated on the season and the Bulldogs are looking to avenge last year’s 31-27 loss at Sam R. McCain stadium in what was one of only two regular season losses last year for the Bulldogs.
After a last second game winning field goal last week to give Coach Roone Gable and the Chattooga Indians their first win of the season, Chattooga will be fighting for their second win of the season as they welcome the Murray County Indians to the Little Big Horn for homecoming tonight. Chattooga is 1-2 on the season and Murray County is struggling at 0-3. Murray County has back to back 1-9 seasons.
Join Ben Groce, Jeremy Burke and Jim Warnock tonight as they will be broadcasting live from Model High School. The Trion vs Model game will broadcast on 99.1 FM and AM 1180 as well as video live streamed on the WZQZ Facebook page.
Paul and Phil Cavin will call the action tonight at the Little Big Horn. The Chattooga vs Murray County game will be live video streamed on the WZQZ Facebook page.
The pregame show will begin around 7pm with kickoff to follow at 7:30 pm.
Five contracts totaling nearly $11 million were awarded in July by Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) for projects throughout Northwest Georgia. The projects are mainly focused on bridge maintenance and safety improvements.
In celebration of their recent clinics opening, AdventHealth Medical Group Cardiology at Rome and AdventHealth Medical Group Electrophysiology at Rome will host an open house on Friday, September 22 from 2 to 4 pm.
Summerville Police responded to a call about an tractor-trailer that was not maintaining its lane on Highway 100 on Thursday morning. When officers stopped the truck driver, he began to shout and curse at the officers. Police said that the driver was irate and using vulgar language. Police advised the truck driver to calm down, at which point the man “just got louder” – according to a police report. Officers cuffed the truck driver and police said he continued to yell and curse all the way to the Chattooga County Jail. Fifty-two-year-old Oral Hill of Boise, Idaho was booked on disorderly conduct charges.
The Chattooga County Tax Assessors office is working their way through a massive, record-number of tax appeals, but Chattooga County Tax Commissioner Joy Hampton cannot send out 2023 property tax bills until they get either the number of tax appeals or the total value under appeal down to 8% of the over 3,000 that were filed.
Georgia Labor Commissioner Bruce Thompson has announced that Georgia’s August unemployment rate was 3.3 percent, up one-tenth from a revised 3.2 percent in July. The unemployment rate was five-tenths lower than the national unemployment rate of 3.8 percent.