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Floyd’s Boot Camp for New Dads is aimed at helping dads become comfortable, competent and compassionate parents. While childbirth and childcare classes for moms and couples are available, Floyd realized that new dads could use some extra guidance. The Boot Camp for New Dads workshop is interactive. Men spend time in small groups with veteran…

A milk truck snagged utility lines at the Chattooga Headstart facility at 262 Congress Street, around 11:27 p.m. Oct. 16, according to Summerville Police reports. “Officers observed that a Borden Milk truck had torn down what appeared to be a low hanging utility line belonging to Windstream Communications,” Officer Lt. Tim Fulmer stated. Windstream was…

After volunteering on the Summerville Fire Department for the last 19 years, Dee Windle is retiring. The Summerville City Council honored Windle during its regular council meeting on Monday evening. “On behalf of the Summerville Fire Department, it’s been an honor for me to serve with you. I’ve been with Dee for 12 years. It…

Debra McGuire, of Trion, was staying with a boyfriend in Summerville when someone she knew kept riding by the house on Oct. 16. She called the Summerville Police and they arrived to witness the person driving by also. Officer Roy Williams stopped the man and informed him that he needed to move along and not…

Summerville Mayor Harry Harvey is reminding local city dwellers to only put household garbage into approved Wright Sanitation cans and only put limbs and brush on the right-of-way. Do not place mattresses, sofas and other furniture and large items on the city roadsides.

The Chattooga County Sheriff’s Department is raising money to distribute gift baskets to residents in the nursing home and other locations this Christmas. The department is raffling Scentsy products valued at more than $140. Tickets are $5 each or three for $10. You can purchase tickets at the sheriff’s department. The drawing is Dec. 6. 

A pit bulldog is terrorizing a section of Summerville and it also tried biting children and adults, according to police reports. Trina Johnson, of Fourth Street, called cops after a pit bulldog acted aggressively toward her and others on Tuesday. “She advised that the residence at the end of the street on the left had…

Dreamer’s Outreach Inc., is hosting a free cookout for the public in celebration of cancer survivors on Oct. 26 a Kuzzins, 150 Hemlock Street, in Summerville. Dreamer’s will give away at least $1,000 to the Cancer Navigators of Rome as part of the outreach’s one-year anniversary, according to organizer Maurice Martin. “Wear your pink,” Martin…