Dr. Phil Williams, Supt. of Trion City Schools confirmed that tonight’s graduation exercise will be held outdoors at Sam R. McCain Stadium / Clarence Blevins Field. 96 Trion Seniors are scheduled to receive their diplomas this evening. Graduation gets underway at 8 PM.
Memorial Day is coming up on Monday and the Town of Trion Veterans Committee will hold a Memorial Day service on Saturday. Originally, the plans were to have the service at the Trion Veterans Memorial, but due to the chance of rain on Saturday, the decision has been made to move the service to the Trion Recreation Department. The public is invited to attend the 2024 Trion Memorial Day Service at 1 PM on Saturday at the Trion Rec.
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Friday, May 24, 2024:
Trion Mayor Lanny Thomas has been elected Vice-President of the District One of the Georgia Municipal Association.
Graduation will be held this evening for the Class of 2024 at both Chattooga High School and Trion High School. There are 145 Chattooga seniors that will be graduating this evening and 96 Trion seniors will receive their diplomas.
A forty-three-year-old Chattooga County man was arrested this week for failing to register properly as a sex offender. Michael Luke Shedd was sentenced to prison in 2019 after he sexually assaulted a male acquaintance who was passed out from drinking. Shedd admitted to the assault and during the investigation into the incident, child pornography was found on Shedd’s cell phone. The GBI assisted local authorities in that investigation. Shedd was sentenced in Chattooga County Superior Court to five years in prison and was recently released. He is currently on probation for twenty years as part of his sentencing from 2019. Shedd was arrested on Wednesday afternoon and booked into the Chattooga County Jail on the current charges.
With Memorial Day Weekend being the unofficial kickoff to summer, Georgia law enforcement officials have a message: Don’t risk it! Click seat belts and life jackets every time. The Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS), Georgia State Patrol, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, and GOHS Traffic Enforcement Networks are asking everyone at the start of summer to buckle their seat belts before every trip and to wear a life jacket when boating or swimming.
Georgia Labor Commissioner Bruce Thompson said on Thursday that the unemployment rate in the Northwest Georgia Region is down over the previous month. Numbers from April were released yesterday by the Georgia Department of Labor.
Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC) and Floyd County Prison have partnered to offer offenders training as Class B commercial truck drivers and welders, aiding their employment prospects post-release.
Menlo water customers were under a boil water advisory last weekend after a trace amount of fecal contamination was found at one of the city’s water sources – the Alpine Well. City Mayor Allen Keen says that there was never any real danger to any water customers because the water is chlorinated and the sample came from pre-treated water at the well. However, the state does mandate the boil water advisory that was issued. The city disinfected the well over the weekend and by Tuesday, the city notified WZQZ News that the boil water advisory had been lifted. The cause of the fecal contamination at the well has not been determined.
