The Teloga Volunteer Fire Department, along with the Trion Fire Department, responded to a residential structure fire in the area of Railey Road and Highway 337 overnight. WZQZ News will have more on the fire as information becomes available.
Next Monday, September 23, 2024, all Texas Roadhouse restaurant locations in Georgia will be donating 100% of their proceeds to Apalachee High School. The restaurant chain confirmed to WZQZ News on Tuesday night that the notice circulating on social media is accurate. Texas Roadhouse in Rome is open on Monday from 3 PM – 10 PM.
The Salvation Army is pleased to announce that the registration dates for the 2024 Angel Tree program are set for residents of Chattooga County.
Yesterday, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed an executive order that effectively allows the state’s universities and colleges to pay students directly for the use of their name, image and likeness. Kemp’s order specifically prohibits the NCAA or any collegiate athletic conference from punishing Georgia schools for “offering compensation, or compensating an intercollegiate student-athlete for the use of such student-athlete’s NIL.”
Every summer, Georgia has a burn ban in place for fifty-four counties, including Chattooga and surrounding counties in Northwest Georgia. The Georgia EPD says that the ban is necessary to protect air quality in the Atlanta metro area.
Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC) has awarded approximately 1,200 certificates through the National Coalition of Certification Centers (NC3), an organization established to train and educate future skilled workers for productive careers.
A Chattooga County man with a long history of drug arrests was sentenced to thirty years in prison last month in Chattooga County Superior Court. Larry Joe Dooley, a five-time convicted felon, received the sentence from Superior Court Judge Kristina Cook Graham. The sentence is to be served with parole. The Lookout Mountain District Attorney’s office issued the following press release about Dooley’s sentencing yesterday:
Howard Finster’s Paradise Garden hosts its annual two-day art festival, Finster Fest, on September 21 & 22 in historic Paradise Garden in the Pennville Community in Chattooga County.
A LaFayette man was booked into the Floyd County Jail Friday on multiple charges including an outstanding warrant from Tennessee.
WHAT: Weather permitting, crews will be resurfacing a portion of I-75 overnight Wednesday and Thursday. The work will close the two left northbound lanes. Motorists should expect traffic delays during the resurfacing.
WHEN: Wednesday and Thursday, September 18 and 19, from 7 p.m. until 4 a.m. each night
WHERE: The left two northbound lanes of I-75 will be closed between mileposts between 325 and 327. The exit and entrance ramps will remain open.