A forty-nine-year-old Centre, Alabama man was arrested in Northwest Georgia over the weekend after he was accused of motor vehicle theft.  Floyd County Police say that Janssen Layne Jordan took a U-Haul truck from U-Haul on Shorter Avenue in Rome and failed to return it.  Jordan was supposed to have returned the truck on April 4th, but had not returned it by April 9th, when the U-Haul store reported the truck stolen.  Jordan was booked into the Floyd County Jail on Sunday and charged with theft by taking a motor vehicle.

Summerville Police arrested a sixty-year-old woman and a thirty-seven-year-old man for fighting near the intersection of Highway 48 and Martin Street in Summerville last Friday night.  Sandra Patten and Buddy Allen Rooker were engaged in a fight when police arrived on the scene.  Police say that the two fighting was “causing a danger to the safety of the public”.  Both Patten and Rooker were charged with disorderly conduct and were booked into the Chattooga County Jail.

State Representative Katie Dempsey (R-Rome), chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Human Resources, commends Governor Brian Kemp for signing Senate Bill 45, A.J.’s Law, on Thursday, April 13, 2023, in Savannah. Sponsored in the House by Rep. Dempsey, SB 45 seeks to provide better care to students who have a seizure at school through personalized seizure action plans.

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Paradise Garden, home of the epic art and music festival Finster Fest, also presents a growing annual arts festival, May Artist Market, coming Saturday, May 6, 2023. Hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Chattooga High School has released a list of the members of the Class of 2023 that are named Honor Graduates. Congratulations to these students.

Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Monday, April 17, 2023:

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Here are the health inspection scores for the first half of April, 2023 from the Chattooga County Environmental Health Department:

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Work is moving forward on the new public works facility for the City of Summerville.  The city is planning the new public works building and has started preparing for a new building to be in place later this year.  The downtown building that housed the public works department was badly damaged during the Labor Day Weekend flood of 2022.  The city says that the old building will still be used for storage, and possible overflow office space.  The city received $100,000 in insurance settlements from the flooding that damaged the building last year. The balance of the funds for the new facility will come from the city’s special local option sales tax fund.  The new building will be located on city-owned property off Vitality Lane near the Summerville Industrial Park.