Area News

Two Summerville residents are accused of credit card fraud and one of them was also found with methamphetamine, according to police reports. Officers traveled to 130 Lee Street to arrest Barbara Brock and Tanya Caldwell for financial card fraud yesterday. As officers searched Brock’s purse, they found a clear plastic bag containing suspected meth. Both…

Chattooga County Schools will make up the day missed because of bad weather. The makeup day is on Monday, February 11. All schools will operate and buses will pick-up children up at the normal time.

The U.S. News and World Report magazine featured the Cloudland tiny house community in a Jan. 3 article. The Little River Escape development between Menlo and Mentone (near Lake Lahusage), was one of six communities featured. “We were the only community in the Southeast,” developer Ed Watters said. The Cloudland site features homes that are between…

A repossession company came looking for a vehicle that a Subligna-area couple did not own, according to Chattooga County Sheriff reports. Chris Byrnes, of Dry Creek Road, said a man from a repossession company came to his house around 3 p.m. on Jan. 18 looking for a 2013 Hyundai Tuscon with plate 6YSL292, according to…

The kindness exhibited by two local cops ended with the arrest of a Trion man Monday afternoon, according to Summerville Police records. Their act of kindness began with a 911 call from an elderly Seventh Street resident. The elderly female told dispatchers that a man knocked over her garbage can and pulled a sign out…