Summerville Mayor Harry Harvey was chosen to serve on a committee that is investigating a Rome City Commissioner in response to ethics violation accusations.
Photo Credit: Rome News Tribune via WRGA
Rome Firefighters battled a structure fire Monday night at the top of the hill on Ross Street.
The annual Memories of Mayberry Festival returns to Valley Head, Alabama on Saturday, May 6, 2023. The event brings the charm of The Andy Griffith Show to downtown Valley Head with character impersonators, live entertainment, an array of food, pie-baking contest, pickle-making contest, antique car show, and much more. All proceeds from the festival support the Valley Head Volunteer Fire Department.
Thirteen years ago today, Chattooga County was dealing with the aftermath of a tornado the wreaked havoc in Northeast Alabama before crossing over Lookout Mountain and striking Chattooga County.
A woman told a Chattooga County Sheriff’s deputy that her vehicle was truck by another while she was driving on Highway 27 last week near Truck Town. The complainant told a responding deputy that she was in heavy traffic near Dot Johnson Drive at the time of the accident on April 19th. The area gets congested due to school traffic going to Leroy Massey Elementary School. The complainant said that someone in another vehicle struck her vehicle on the right-side passenger door. The woman was not able to give a description of the vehicle that struck her. The sheriff’s department filed a report for insurance for the complainant and was checking with Truck Town to see if they could obtain video surveillance of the accident.
Tennessee Valley Federal Credit Union plans a hiring fair this Thursday from 9 AM to 1 PM at the BX – Brainerd Baptist Church’s multi-use meeting facility, 4011 Austin St., in Chattanooga where the credit union will try to fill a wide range of jobs ranging from entry-level positions to branch managers.
A fifty-five-year-old woman was arrested at Walmart last week after she attempted to steal cosmetics and meat. According to a report released yesterday by the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office, loss prevention at Walmart called the sheriff’s department after Alicia Hudgins was seen putting the makeup and meat in her pocketbook. Walmart employees stopped Hudgins after she attempted to exit the store without paying. The total value of the items was $150.91. Hudgins was booked into the Chattooga County Jail on charges of shoplifting.
The City of Summerville will be celebrating “Georgia Cities Week” April 23-29. The theme of this year’s Georgia Cities Week is “Lighting the Way.”
We’re very proud of our city and the services we provide to make it attractive to residents and visitors,” said Mayor Harry Harvey. “Cities provide the services and infrastructure to help businesses grow and set the stage for events where families and individuals can gather as a community.”
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Tuesday, April 25, 2023:
On April 18th, Summerville Police responded to the Circle K on Commerce Street to speak with the driver of a vehicle that said his vehicle rolled out of the gas station parking lot, across the road and into the parking lot of the Fit Pit where several people were set up selling yard sale items. Police say that by the time they arrived, two people had already been transported to the hospital. The vehicle also damaged two other vehicles and yard sale merchandise. The driver of the vehicle was identified in a police report as seventy-nine-year-old David Mott of Lyerly. Mott told police he failed to put his vehicle in park before going inside the store. The two people struck by the vehicle were identified in the report as Lisa Tucker and Frankie Wade. Their condition and injuries were not noted in the report that was released on Monday, April 24th.