According to a report released this week by the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office, deputies stopped a vehicle late last week near Greeson Street in Trion.  While speaking with the driver of the vehicle, the deputy suspected that the driver was under the influence.  The driver admitted to “smoking a blunt” before getting behind the wheel.  The driver allowed deputies to search the vehicle and they found a small bag of marijuana and the blunt that the man had admitted to smoking.  Thirty-five-year-old Justin Lopez Foster was arrested and booked into the Chattooga County Jail on charges of driving under the influence of drugs.

On Sunday, the Chattooga County Sheriff’s office took a report about a wheel that had been stolen off a Chevrolet Impala.  The car was in the yard of the complainant, located off Highway 114 in Summerville.  The complainant had a video that she showed the responding officer and named a possible suspect.  According to the report, there was not a clear image of the suspect in the video.  The complainant said that the wheel was valued at $305.  The responding deputy told the woman to come to the sheriff’s office the next day with the video and to talk to an investigator about the incident.

Earlier this week, the Summerville Police Department was called to a domestic incident on Third Street.  When they arrived they spoke with thirty-six-year-old William Green who said that he was breaking up with his significant other, and was leaving, and wanted to take a handgun with him but she wouldn’t let him have it. 

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Georgia’s Lt. Governor Burt Jones’ mobile constituent office will be making a stop in Northwest Georgia next week.  The Lt. Governor’s mobile office is traveling to various parts of the state during the last half of the month to hear Georgian’s concerns following the close of the 2023 General Assembly’s legislative session.  The Lt. Governor’s mobile office will be in Dade County next Thursday, April 20th.  The mobile office will be set up at 102 Court Street in Trenton from Noon until 2 PM.

U.S Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene spoke to a crowd of around 200 people on Tuesday evening at LaFayette High School.  The controversial 14th Congressional District Republican spoke on several topics, including her opposition to the war in Ukraine and her fears about transgender rights.  Greene told the crowd there is a transgender ideology that is a danger to the nation’s children, and she said she is working to pass legislation that would ban gender-affirming treatment for minors.  When asked by a constituent why she is so angry, Greene asked the crowd if they were angry, and most raised their hands that they were angry at the direction of the nation.  In closing, Rep. Greene told the crowd that she “thanks God, Georgia isn’t like New York City”, referring to her recent trip to New York to support embattled former President Donald Trump.

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The Coosa River Basin Initiative is celebrating its 30^th anniversary in 2023. The local 501c3 grassroots environmental organization has been on a mission to protect, preserve, and restore the biologically diverse upper Coosa River basin throughout the past three decades.

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Crews will be in a neighborhood between the rivers Friday filming a Netflix production, and there will be some road closings on East Third Street and East Fourth Avenue as a result.

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Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Wednesday, April 12, 2023:

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April is nationally recognized as Child Abuse Prevention Month as well as Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Traditionally the local child abuse and neglect prevention agencies kick the month off with the planting of a pinwheel garden. Why pinwheels? By its very nature, the pinwheel connotes playfulness, joy, and childhood. It has come to serve as a physical reminder of the great childhoods we want for all children.  The Chattooga Family Connection and Chattooga County DFCS invites the public to the annual ceremony, which will be held at Dowdy Park in Summerville on Thursday, April 13 at 11 AM.

The Chattooga County Chamber of Commerce will be hosting graduation for the Leadership Chattooga – Junior Edition today at noon at Sweet P’s at the Tavern in Trion.  Chamber Director Cindy Rivers-McGraw told WZQZ News that there will be 13 students graduating from the program.

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