The Chattooga County Board of Education will be holding a public meeting tomorrow (Thursday, June 8, 2023).  The purpose of the meeting is for public input on the school system’s 2023-2024 Fiscal Year Budget.  The meeting will be held at 11 AM at the Chattooga County Education Center, located at 206 Penn Street in Summerville.  The school system is facing a budget shortfall this year of around $1.1 million.  A copy of the tentative budget is available HERE.

Three Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC) students from the Whitfield Murray Campus (WMC) in Dalton have received The Governor Nathan Deal Technical Education Scholarship in recognition of their academic achievement in an industrial program.

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A Chattooga County deputy was on routine patrol last Friday morning shortly after 2 AM when he noticed a car that had hit a power pole.  The power pole was snapped near the base and was only held up by the power lines, according to an incident report from the sheriff’s office.  The deputy could not find anyone in the vehicle and concluded that the driver had left the scene.  The Chrysler Corisca was registered to a person in LaFayette, but had a tag on it belonging to a 2005 Ford Escape, registered to Thomas Reynolds of a Rose Circle, Trion address. Inside, the deputy found the title to the vehicle, which had been signed over to Reynolds.  The vehicle was impounded by the sheriff’s department.  At the time of the report, the sheriff’s office had not been able to contact Reynolds.

The City of Summerville has posted recent budget presentations online.  The two presentations were given at the 2023 Summerville City Council Budget Hearing.

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Tomorrow, June 7th at 11:00 AM, Trion Mayor Lanny Thomas will be reading to children at the Trion Public Library. He will be reading Jane Yolen & Mark Teague’s How do Dinosaurs Learn to be Kind? and Marla Frazee’s In Every Life.

Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Tuesday, June 6, 2023:

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The Northwest Georgia Regional Commission is accepting bids for a new vehicle to be used by the commission’s executive director.  According to a bid notice, bids are being accepted on a new Chevrolet Traverse SUV.  The bid notice says that the vehicle should be with the RS trim package, or higher.  Bids are being accepted until June 8, 2023.  You can find out all the details HERE. The Northwest Georgia Regional Commission serves the following counties: Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Fannin, Floyd, Gilmer, Gordon, Haralson, Murray, Paulding, Pickens, Polk, Walker, and Whitfield.