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By GENE ESPY Editor Mountain View resident John Martin really enjoys his hobby of carving with a chain saw when he can get the time to do it. Martin has been carving for 20 years and still loves doing his artwork and makes a little money on the side as well. “If I charged by…

Joseph Eleam, of Summerville, said a local businessman was harassing him and a female friend who lives on Elm Street too, according to Summerville Police reports. “Mr. Eleam stated that [this businessman] had followed them from his work and made several trips up and down the roadway in front of the residence,” Officer Lebron Jackson…

A multi-county methamphetamine operation has been halted, according to Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Drug Task Force Commander DeWayne Brown. Danny Kerdell Smith, of Rossville, and 12 others were arrested yesterday by drug agents. The drug network included people in Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd and Walker counties, according to Brown. It was part of a three-month…

Chattooga County Tax Commissioner Joy Hampton said the 2019 property tax bills will begin arriving in local mailboxes starting today. The due date is Dec. 1, according to Hampton.

Quick reacting drug agents stopped people from flushing evidence at 192 Stevens Street on Sept. 11, according to Summerville Detective Ty Hutchins. Police and the Lookout Mountain Joint Drug Task Force suspected that drugs and guns were being stored for a gang out of California. An anonymous source pinpointed the culprits as Jahari “Jack” McCutchins…

Watch for a two-vehicle crash on Lyerly Dam Road. Emergency vehicles are responding to that area. There is no indication of the crash’s severity.

UPDATE: All lanes of Hwy. 27 in Trion at the Benny’s #1 gas station fire are open. Travel northbound and southbound is back to normal. From  Chattooga County Sheriff Mark Schrader:Highway 27 at the Selman Drive Entrance is still blocked. No traffic is allowed through because of fire hoses across the highway still may be…