The Chattooga Board of Education will be having a budget meeting next Thursday, June 1, 2023.  The BOE is facing a budget shortfall of about $1.1 million.  Chattooga County School Supt. Jared Hosmer says that state mandated pay raises are part of the reason for the shortfall in the budget.  The BOE will have to decide whether they want to dip into savings or raise property taxes to meet the budget shortfall.  Next Thursday’s meeting is open to the public and takes place at 1 PM.  There will be a 5 PM public hearing.  Both meetings will take place at the Chattooga BOE board room at the Chattooga Education Building on Penn Street in Summerville.

The Town of Trion will be hosting a Memorial Day celebration coming up tomorrow, May 27, 2023.  The ceremony will be held at the Trion Veterans Memorial at 210 Simmons Street. The program will get underway at 1 PM.  Retired Master Gunnery Sgt. USMC Kevin McNeese will be the keynote speaker.  The program will also feature dedication of new pavers at the memorial, and remembering Trion veterans.

Chattooga High School has released the livestream link for Friday night’s graduation exercises:  Click Here 

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From the Summerville Water Department:

Judith Ann Neelley was denied parole on Thursday morning, according to Chattooga County Sheriff Mark Schrader.  Neelley was serving a life sentence in Alabama for the death of a Rome teenager.  She was also facing a life-sentence that was handed down in Chattooga County Superior Court.  Sheriff Schrader had said that if the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles released Neelley, he would be waiting to pick her up when she was released from prison in Alabama to bring her back to Georgia and serve her life sentence here.  Alabama Governor Kay Ivey had written the pardons and parole board on Wednesday, imploring them to keep Neelley incarcerated.

Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Thursday, May 25, 2023:

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A twenty-two-year-old Summerville man was arrested shorty after midnight on Wednesday, just across the state line in Cherokee County, Alabama near Cloudland.  Cherokee County Sheriff’s Deputies said that they attempted to stop Jackson Lowenburg who was observed traveling at a high rate of speed.  Lowenburg sped away in an attempt to elude the deputy and lost control of his vehicle on County Road 72.  Lowenburg crashed his vehicle and was arrested on charges of DUI and attempting to elude.  EMS checked out Lowenburg and he was then transported to the Cherokee County Detention Center.  Lownburg was released on bond yesterday morning at 11 AM.

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Summerville Police responded to a call on Monday regarding a domestic situation and spoke with the victim, twenty-four-year-old Xavier Reece. 

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A forty-five-year-old woman was arrested by Chattooga County deputies last Thursday for disturbing the peace.  According to a report released this week, officers responded to a call about a domestic altercation on Violet Lane in Summerville.  When they arrived on the scene, Sandy Wilson was standing across the street on a porch “screaming and causing a breach of peace while doing a funny dance”.  Witnesses said that Wilson had told them she would “kill them” if they called the law.  Wilson was arrested and taken to the Chattooga County Jail on two felony charges of making terroristic threats and acts, disorderly conduct, trespass and simple assault.