Trenton News

Upon looking back at headlines and stories, 2009 has been a difficult year in Dade County as it has been throughout the country with several hardships related to problems with the nation's economy.

As many as two thousand people found themselves without power on Christmas Eve according to Georgia Power.

A Dade County couple has been charged with spray painting graffiti along a stretch in Wildwood, including a church.

Last week the city of Trenton held their December city commission meeting and it was stated that revenues were down and so the city was showing a deficit of $16,000 on paper only.

Last week, the city council of Lookout Mountain, Ga., voted to accept an agreement with Dade County Water Authority and Covenant College whereby the town will take over a small sewer system that Dade and Covenant have been juggling between them for decades.

Firefighters with the Southside Fire Department rarely get to put a face to the families they help.

Looking at the year's financial balance, the city does not look in as good a shape as it normally does, but Trenton Mayor Barton Harris and City Clerk Lucretia Houts say that the $16,000 shortfall only looks that way on paper.

Thinking about Vietnam still makes Marshall Tripp mad. From the way he got sucked into the U.S. Army to the way he was treated when it spat him out, there's not much in the story that doesn't make Tripp see red.

Mountain on a forced entry burglary. After the deputies processed the scene, a suspect vehicle was developed and a lookout was given for the vehicle.

The Dade County Emergency Management with assistants from the Dade County School System has recently updated its account with Emergency Communications Network, providers of the CodeRED high-speed notification solution and the CodeRED Weather Warning service.

TRENTON, Ga. - A local man who saved a 4-year-old from burning to death in a house fire now is an acknowledged hero.

A Trenton, Ga. woman wanted on warrants in Jackson County was apprehended Thursday.

Freshman guard Jasmine James scored 25 points and Ashley Houts added 21 for No. 16 Georgia in a 74-57 win over Chattanooga on Thursday night.

At his tax appeal Nov. 5, Robert "Smokey" Russell read solemnly from a Dade County Sentinel article detailing tax valuation reductions made by the county this year in the cases of Shaw Industries, the Bank of Dade and County Executive Ted Rumley.

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Veterans Day activities kicked off Tuesday morning with the annual program Soldiers in the Classroom.

Voters are apparently happy with the citya s current administration and the vote tally Tuesday evening showed that.

Trenton, GA: The first shipment of injectable H1N1 vaccine has arrived at the Dade County Health Department, according the Health Department Nurse Manager Tammy Franklin.