Residents Encouraged To Apply For Dislocated Workers Grant
By REBECCA HAZEN News Editor Northwest Georgia Regional Commission (NWGRC) and Work Source Georgia continue to offer a Disaster Dislocated Worker National Emergency Grant through its Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. The Disaster Dislocated Worker National Emergency Grant provides temporary employment opportunities for individuals impacted by Covid-19 throughout the 15 county northwest Georgia region. Dade…
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Many Events Happening This Month At The Public Library
By REBECCA HAZEN News Editor Dade County Public Library Manager Mindy Haworth and Youth Education Coordinator Spencer Pennington have worked hard to develop community relationships and offer a wide range of new programming at the library throughout the month of April. This month, students from Dade County Schools will have the opportunity to visit the…
Read MoreTrack Team Takes First At Invitational
By EDDY GIFFORD Sports Writer The Dade County High School track team recently took first place in the Dade County Invitational with 218 points. They were followed by Providence with 117, Conerstone with 104 and Chattooga with 61. Below are the results for Dade County athletes in each event. High Jump: Girls – Stella Henry…
Read MoreLocal Agencies Arrest Guffey On Drug Charges
Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Drug Task Force agents, along with Dade County Investigations and the Department of Community Supervision, conducted a follow-up investigation on Monday, March 28, in reference to information received that a subject was selling narcotics at a residence on Stephens Drive. During the course of the investigation, law enforcement located methamphetamine, fentanyl,…
Read MoreDade Ends Weekly County Updates
By REBECCA HAZEN News Editor Dade County’s weekly updates have ended as of Thursday, March 31. The weekly updates, which were broadcast on Facebook and YouTube each week on Thursdays at 3 p.m., first started during the beginning of the pandemic in Spring 2020, to share COVID-19 related news. Citizens who are still interested in…
Read MoreObituaries — April 6 issue
THEORA ROGERS Theora Bowling Rogers, 90, of Trenton, passed away Saturday, April 2, 2022. Mrs. Rogers was born Oct. 3, 1931, in Geraldine, Ala., to Terry and Ola “Minnie” Bowling. She married her husband John on May 18, 1947. They started their lives together in Ider, Ala. Mrs. Rogers moved to Miami, Fla., in 1969,…
Read MoreWolverines Sweep Chattooga’s Indians
By EDDY GIFFORD Sports Writer The Dade County High School Wolverine baseball team traveled to Summerville on Tuesday, March 29 to face the Chattooga County Indians in a Region 7-AA match–up, the first game of a three-game series. The Indians took the early lead, scoring a run in the bottom of the first inning to…
Read MoreSchools Implementing “Say Something” Program
By REBECCA HAZEN News Editor James Fahrney, Jr., Principal of Dade County High School, spoke to the Dade County Board of Education about implementation of the “Say Something” program during the Monday, March 28 meeting. Say Something is a no-cost program created by the Sandy Hook Promise Foundation, founded by family, and loved ones of…
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