Chattooga County News

Former Rome restaurateur Andre Rodriguez has worked a couple of short term jobs since giving up The Partridge in Rome over a year ago.

The Mohawk plant in Summerville will get nearly 500 new employees during the next five years as part of a $180 million expansion project unveiled Wednesday.

A company that turns plastic bottles and containers into carpet fiber plans to expand in northwest Georgia, adding about 500 jobs in Summerville over five years.

Note: This is essentially the 11th District seat Reece now holds. It was shifted slightly and renumbered during the redistricting process.

Balloons will fill the sky for the fifth annual Northwest Georgia Hot Air Balloon Festival on June 22-24 in Chattooga County.

This image posted on the Summerville News website shows a black bear seen in Chattooga County around 8 p.m. Thursday.

Over 130 members of the community showed up the school board meeting Tuesday night to learn the fate of various programs and staff positions or speak out regarding cuts Around 130 members of the community showed up to the regular session school board meeting Tuesday night anxious to learn the fate of various school programs and jobs as the district ... (more)

Francis B. Wells said she was only 13 years old the first time she met folk art legend Howard Finster, yet 71 years later she still holds on to the newspaper clipping he gave her that day - and article telling some of his own story.

American folk artist Howard Finster, 1916-2001. The annual Finster Folk Art and Music Festival moves back to its original location at Dowdy Park in Summerville, Ga., this weekend.

"Best thing in the world," Lenderman said. "There's a lot of positives that have come out of it we weren't expecting." Those unexpected benefits include reduced teacher and student absenteeism, fewer disciplinary "write-ups," improved test scores and a savings of almost $800,000 annually, he said.

The Rev. Howard Finster is still helping call the roll up yonder, but in a development virtually no one expected, his Paradise Garden is springing back to life.