Healthy Foundations will hold a Zoom meeting Wednesday, Jan. 20, at 5:30 p.m. Leaders from the organization will be discussing the types of positions that will be hired and how the positions will be phased in over time.
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Battlefield Elementary School students Tate Adkins and Aarushi Patel celebrate their good behavior on the bus. Students in Catoosa County receive bus bucks for positive behavior.
The Catoosa County Health Department, an affiliate of the Georgia Department of Public Health, announced the suspension of its drive-through COVID-19 testing program so that resources can be committed to scheduling, preparing, and providing COVID-19 vaccinations.
Gov. Brian Kemp asked state lawmakers Thursday, Jan. 14, to give businesses more help dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, double down on investment in rural Georgia and build on last year’s criminal justice reforms.
Gov. Brian Kemp Thursday, Jan. 14, called for increasing funds to Georgia public schools by more than $1.2 billion to help offset cuts to education the General Assembly imposed last year.
Georgia public schools are set to receive about $1.7 billion in federal COVID-19 aid as part of a second round of relief spending Congress passed in December.
By the end of December 2020, the Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC) Foundation raised approximately $250,000 in support of students from private donations, corporate gifts, grants, planned giving and establishment of an endowed fund.
Most people normally stay home for a presidential inauguration -- or at least stay in their home state.
“The Walker County Health Department,” says the county’s website, “has asked that we share the following information for those trying to schedule a COVID-19 vaccination appointment.”
“The demand for the COVID-19 vaccine is high in Catoosa County,” says Catoosa County Commission Chairman Steven Henry. “It’s been a challenge.”
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House for a historic second time Wednesday, charged with “incitement of insurrection” over the deadly mob siege of the Capitol in a swift and stunning collapse of his final days in office.
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Rural broadband, pandemic recovery and election battles to come in Georgia’s legislative session highlighted the annual “Eggs and Issues” program held Wednesday, Jan. 13, by the Georgia Chamber of Commerce.
Rural broadband, pandemic recovery and election battles to come in Georgia’s legislative session highlighted the annual “Eggs and Issues” program held Wednesday by the Georgia Chamber of Commerce.
Local providers are struggling to administer COVID-19 vaccines in Georgia as health clinics have been swamped with requests for doses since Gov. Brian Kemp expanded eligibility to those 65-years and older.
ATLANTA — University System of Georgia Chancellor Steve Wrigley Tuesday, Jan. 12, announced plans to retire on July 1 after 36 years in public service.
Democratic lawmakers in the Georgia Senate kicked off the 2021 legislative session with a resolution condemning the riot by supporters of President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol.
Two institutions in the University System of Georgia are launching degree programs focused on two of the state’s top industries.
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The following statement, issued Jan. 11, is from the Georgia Department of Public Health Northwest Health District, which includes Walker and Catoosa counties:
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COVID-19 and last week’s storming of the U.S. Capitol loomed large in the Georgia General Assembly Monday as lawmakers were sworn in to begin the 2021 legislative session.
Gov. Brian Kemp asked Georgians for patience Friday, Jan. 8, as state officials push to distribute around 11,500 doses per day of the slow-arriving COVID-19 vaccine to health-care workers, nursing homes and people aged 65 and older in some parts of the state.
Colbie Wilson was selected as Battlefield Elementary School’s Educator of the Month. This award is given monthly by faculty and staff.
Kennady Hindman was the winner of the PS5 at Westside Elementary School for the cookie dough fundraiser. She is pictured with Principal Robert Mountjoy.
The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) is launching a COVID vaccine locator on the DPH website at https://dph.georgia.gov. The tool allows users to search by county for a vaccine provider in their community, and provides location and contact information for the provider. This is not a…
The Cherokee Regional Library System, which includes three libraries in Walker County and one in Dade County, has been named Library of the Year by Georgia Public Library Service.
Georgia lawmakers will begin the 2021 General Assembly session on Monday, Jan. 11, fresh off some positive news.
It should be no surprise that Republican Senate candidates Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue won by a landslide in Catoosa County. But in the end, statewide, it was Democrat candidates Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff who took the seats, with 50.9% and 50.46% of the vote, respectively.
Catoosa County administrators and staff have been recognized for their outstanding accomplishments following a year-long leadership development program.
ATLANTA — Legislative leaders are promising to tackle two issues that dominated the news in Georgia and across the nation as the 2021 General Assembly session kicks off.
Newly-elected Catoosa County District 3 Commissioner Vanita Hullander took her seat on the board for the first meeting of her term on Tuesday, Jan. 5, a day after being sworn into office.
ATLANTA — Georgia Chief Justice Harold Melton Friday extended the statewide judicial emergency that has been in effect since the coronavirus pandemic took hold across the state in mid-March.
Democrats captured both of Georgia’s seats in the U.S. Senate for the first time in nearly 20 years, a momentous feat that gives the party control of Congress and the White House.
It should be no surprise that Republican Senate candidates Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue won by a landslide in Walker County. But in the end, statewide, it was Democrat candidates Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff who took the seats, with 50.9% and 50.46% of the vote, respectively.
Despite a meager and sporadic supply of COVID-19 vaccine, Northwest Georgia county health departments have been immunizing local healthcare workers and EMS personnel for the past couple of weeks, according to Dr. Gary Voccio, health director for the 10-county Georgia Department of Public Hea…
Georgia’s most powerful state lawmaker threw cold water Thursday, Jan. 7, on calls by some top Republican officials to eliminate no-excuse absentee voting after the 2020 election cycle.
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Times-Journal, Inc., parent company of the Walker County Messenger and Catoosa County News, has purchased the Morgan County Citizen weekly newspaper in Madison, Ga., it was announced Jan. 6 by owners of the two publishing companies.
Gov. Brian Kemp readied the Georgia National Guard Wednesday, Jan. 6, in response to riots at the U.S. Capitol by President Donald Trump’s supporters protesting the Electoral College vote.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Democrats won both Georgia Senate seats — and with them, the U.S. Senate majority — as final votes were counted Wednesday, serving President Donald Trump a stunning defeat in his turbulent final days in office while dramatically improving the fate of President-elect Joe Biden’…
It was bill-wrangling season in the state legislature, and Gov. Brian Kemp was visiting Germany to talk economic ties when word came that the virus spreading from China into Europe could pose a serious threat for Georgia.
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Rev. Raphael Warnock is poised to defeat Republican U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler in Tuesday’s runoff election, handing Democrats a Senate seat in Georgia for the first time in nearly 20 years.
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Walker and Catoosa counties’ preliminary totals for the U.S. Senate runoffs gave — as expected — large margins to incumbent Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler.
West Side Elementary School in Catoosa County announced Tuesday, Jan. 5, the school has been certified and named as a Leader in Me Lighthouse School by FranklinCovey Education.
Blake Hodge, Walker County fire chief and emergency management director, received his first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday, Jan. 5, along with 46 other medical first responders in Walker County.
Georgia has its first case of COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7, the same variant discovered in the U.K. and in several other countries and U.S. states, the state Department of Public Health said Tuesday, Jan. 5.
A Tennessee man has been arrested in connection with a shooting in the Graysville community that appears to be the result of an illegal narcotics transaction, Catoosa County Sheriff Gary Sisk said Tuesday, Jan. 5.
The first meeting of the Walker County Board of Commissioners was a special called one on Monday, Jan. 4. There were two items on the agenda: choose a vice chair and decide when and where regular commission meetings would be held.
It was bill-wrangling season in the state legislature, and Gov. Brian Kemp was visiting Germany to talk economic ties when word came that the virus spreading from China into Europe could pose a serious threat for Georgia.
They both stepped into office as the 14th Congressional District’s representative looking to make waves, but as Marjorie Greene steps into his former seat, Tom Graves said one of the accomplishments he was most proud of was heading up a committee to promote bipartisan solutions in Congress.
COVID-19 immunizations have begun in Northwest Georgia, but public health’s vaccine supply remains very limited.
Gov. Brian Kemp Thursday, Dec. 31, named four returning members of the Georgia House of Representatives and three new state senators to his roster of floor leaders for the 2021-2022 General Assembly term.
At 2:30 the afternoon of Dec. 30, Probate Judge Christy Anderson swore in the members of the new Walker County Board of Commissioners at the courthouse in LaFayette. The meeting was not open to the public but is posted on Facebook.
