A man arrested by Cartersville Police following a shooting incident on Friday in the area of the Sandra D. Hudson Villas on East 14th Street in Rome is now lodged in the Floyd County Jail.
Kirby Jones, a teacher at Lyerly Elementary School, was awarded the “Friend of the Community Award” on Wednesday. The award was presented during Friendship Week, leading up to the Friendship Festival this weekend.
A Las Vegas, Nevada woman was arrested in Chattooga County after a traffic stop. According to a report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office, the woman was following too closely and not wearing her seat belt. When stopped, the woman told the deputy that she was traveling from the Atlanta airport to Mentone, Alabama to pick up her daughter. The deputy found out that the woman had a suspended license and arrested her. While in the back of the patrol car, the woman became irate and said she was being arrested because of her skin color. According to the report, the woman began beating her head on the metal barrier between the front and back seat of the patrol car. Twenty-six-year-old Timeshia Cobb was charged with following too closely, a seat belt violation and driving with suspended or revoked license and was booked into the Chattooga County Jail.
The Chattooga County Board of Education has a called meeting scheduled for Thursday morning at 8 AM. The purpose of the meeting is to approve a town hall meeting to be held at Chattooga High School by Chattooga County Commissioner Blake Elsberry. You can see the notice below:
Chattooga County Sheriff Mark Schrader has released a statement about a shooting incident on Airport Road in Trion on Tuesday.
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Wednesday, July 26, 2023:
Several hundred property owners from Chattooga County attended a meeting at the Chattooga High School Cafeteria on Tuesday evening to hear about appealing their property tax assessments.
On Tuesday, Maisha Ludy was presented with the “Friend of the Community Award” by the City of Summerville. The awards are being presented as part of Friendship Week in Summerville, in advance of the Friendship Festival coming up this weekend.
To provide a closer look at the new GHC@Night Associate of Science in Business Administration (ASBA) degree option, Georgia Highlands College (GHC) will host an open house at its Cartersville Site, 5441 Hwy. 20 NE, Cartersville, on Tuesday, August 1.
