Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Wednesday, September 13, 2023:
Georgia Northwestern Technical College is proud to announce the students on the President’s and Dean’s Lists for the 2023 summer semester.
To be eligible for the President’s List, the student must maintain a GPA of 3.8 or higher during the semester with a course load of at least 12 credit hours. To be eligible for the Dean’s List, the student must maintain a GPA of 3.5 to 3.79 during the semester with a course load of at least 12 credit hours.
Tuesday, Georgia Governor Brian P. Kemp declared a state of emergency due to the 40-year-high inflation and negative economic conditions.
Although the summer travel season just came to an end, Georgians are already beginning to lock in their travel plans for the holidays. In fact, according to a new AAA survey, 69% of residents are already planning to take a holiday vacation. More than half of them (55%) are booking holiday travel plans earlier this year due to higher travel prices. Three-fifths of holiday travelers (61%) say they’re planning at least one flight during the holiday season.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is announcing continued success in ensuring Georgia’s voter lists are the cleanest in the nation, adding to routine and legally required updates to the non-election year list maintenance effort.
A seventy-one-year-old man was arrested near the intersection of Klatt Boulevard and Highway 27 last Friday after he was found walking in the road and obstructing traffic. Deputy Nicole Flood responded to the scene and found Daniel Francis Hendrie in the roadway trying to stop vehicles. When Deputy Flood approached the subject she could tell he was heavily intoxicated. Deputy Flood asked him how much he had to drink and he replied “Sweetheart, three or four beers”. Deputy Flood told him he had to get off the highway because he was endangering himself and others and he replied “Darlin’, I can do what I want”. Hendrie was transported to the Chattooga County Jail on charges of public drunkenness. Hendrie refused the booking process and was placed in a holding cell until the next morning. According to Deputy Flood’s report, Hendrie had been seen intoxicated near Walmart earlier in the day and was warned by a deputy not to get in the roadway.
Mayor Lanny E Thomas and the Town of Trion Council, along with Doctor Phil Williams and the Trion City School Board would like to invite the community to the open house of the new Trion Police Department, and the dedication of the road that leads to the Police Department “Phil Williams Drive”.
The Georgia Hospital Association says that they support streamlining Georgia’s certificate of need (CON) law, but the organization that represents hospitals across the state is not in favor of scrapping the law all together.
Summerville Police responded to a call from a homeowner on Sage Brush Lane on Tuesday afternoon after a tractor-trailer damaged the homeowner’s property. The complainant said that the truck drive said that his GPS had gotten him lost and he was trying to get to Highway 27. The truck had already broken a limb off of a tree when the homeowner approached the driver. The homeowner suggested that the driver call 911. The driver said that he had, but then got in the truck and drove through the complainant’s yard, leaving ruts and running over the complainant’s water meter. The truck broke the water meter cover and damaged the meter.
A twenty-four-year-old Dry Creek Road man was arrested on Friday after punching holes in the wall and destroying a bathroom door in his home. Deputies were alerted by the man’s in-laws who were in fear for their daughter who had fled the residence with the couple’s nine-month-old son. Deputies traveled to Dry Creek Road and found the subject, Charles Eugene Portwood who admitted to doing the damage to his own home and said that he and his wife had gotten into a heated argument. Portwood was arrested and booked into the Chattooga County Jail on charges of Disorderly Conduct.