Habitat for Humanity – Coosa Valley is currently preparing for the 3rd annual Drive One FORE! Habitat Golf Tournament. The Coosa Valley Chapter of Habitat for Humanity serves Chattooga, Floyd and Polk Counties.
Traffic crashes in Georgia over the Labor Day holiday travel period which began Friday, September 1, at 6:00 p.m., and ended Monday, September 4, at 11:59 p.m., resulted in 21 deaths.
A sixty-year-old Rome man was arrested shortly after midnight on Friday after he was found parked in front of a residence in Summerville. According to Summerville Police, the homeowners said that they did not want the man at the residence, but he remained parked outside. Manfred Atkins was charged with loitering and prowling and was booked into the Chattooga County Jail.
The Summerville City Council will be meeting for their regular monthly meeting for September coming up on Monday evening, September 11th. The council will be asked to approve over $15,000 in new turnout gear for the Summerville Fire Department. Also on the agenda for Monday, the council will be looking at approving changing the old tennis courts to pickle ball courts at an estimated cost of $45,600. The council is also looking at extending natural gas lines to a poultry farm located at 769 Oak Hill Road at a cost of $30,336. Monday evening’s meeting will take place at 5 PM at Summerville City Hall. There will be a question and answer session with the mayor and council members at 4:30 PM. The public is invited to attend.
Local farmers and agricultural producers who were adversely affected by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are eligible to apply for a local farm grant. If you didn’t get in on the last grant application period, you have another chance to apply before October 16, 2023.
Patients and visitors driving to Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center should plan on arriving earlier than scheduled on Monday because of work that will limit the number of available parking spaces at the hospital.
The Chattooga Indians got their first win of the season Friday night, defeating Coahulla Creek 17-14. The Trion Bulldogs were on the road and defeated Gordon Central 65-6 and are now 3-0 on the season. Congratulations to both local teams on their wins.
On Sept. 6, AdventHealth Medical Group Neurosurgery at Rome opened its doors and welcomed patients to its newly renovated clinic.
A former Walker County Deputy and Chattooga County resident was found guilty of incest in Chattooga County Superior Court. The judge in the case declared a mistrial in a portion of the criminal case against Stephen Zachary Williams after a jury deliberated on other charges against Williams that included rape, aggravated sodomy and sexual battery. The crimes were believed to have been committed in Chattooga County. The jury unanimously voted to convict Williams on the charges of incest. The GBI investigated the case against Williams at the request of Walker County Sheriff Steve Wilson. Williams worked for the Walker County Sheriff’s Office from 2018 until the investigation began on the incest and rape charges in 2021. Williams can be retried on the other charges in Chattooga County Superior Court.
A forty-eight-year-old Rome man is set to turn himself in to the Floyd County Superior Court today after being sentenced earlier this week in a drug case that started with his arrest at the Dollar General store parking lot in Gore in Chattooga County.