There will be a BBQ sack-lunch fundraiser for the Chattooga Senior Center coming up this Friday, May 17th from 10 AM until 2 PM at the Fit Pit Parking lot in Summerville. The lunch will consist of a BBQ sandwich, bag of chips, pickle and a drink. The cost is $8 and all of the money raised goes to support the activities at the Chattooga Senior Center. If you have questions, you may contact the Chattooga Senior Center at 706-857-5001.
Each year, Chattooga Young Farmers have a Vidalia Onion fundraiser. Orders are taken earlier in the year for the Georgia-grown onions. Chattooga County Young Farmers headed down to Georgia’s onion country yesterday to pick up the onions and they will be distributed today and tomorrow to those who placed orders.
Red Lobster has announced that they are closing many locations nationwide as the company looks to avoid bankruptcy. Three Red Lobster locations in Georgia were on the list and were closed as of Monday of this week.
A thirty-one-year-old woman was charged with DUI for drugs after deputies noticed her vehicle without a tag in the drive through at the Summerville McDonald’s.
One person was shot in a domestic altercation in the Spring Creek area on Tuesday night. Chattooga County Sheriff Mark Schrader confirmed to WZQZ News that the person who was shot is in stable condition. More details will be released and the investigation continues into the shooting incident. WZQZ will have more updates as they become available.
Due to expected bad weather on Friday, the Chattooga High School Football scrimmage game at SE Whitfield has been moved to Thursday May 16th at 7:30 PM.
Summerville City Manager Andrea Surratt announced her resignation at Monday night’s Summerville City Council meeting. Surratt has only been on the job for eighteen months.
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Tuesday, May 14, 2024:
A thirty-one-year-old Chattooga County man was killed in a crash at a Florida bike rally days before his wedding, according to his fiancé. Rodney Grizzle of Summerville, was at the Thunder Beach Motorcycle Rally in Panama City Beach on May 4 when he and his fiancé, Mai Smith, were involved in an accident.
Last week, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp vetoed a two-year pause in a sales tax exemption the state gives for building and equipping computer data centers, after an intensive lobbying effort to preserve the tax break.
