Grants to bolster fire departments with personnel and equipment are more helpful and plentiful in the years since Sept. 11, 2001, but competition for the funds is more intense, region officials said.
DALTON, Ga. — Independence Day events here will be highlighted today by the dedication of the new Veterans Memorial Park and Wall on Veterans Drive.
Catoosa commissioners will consider in a special meeting Tuesday two offers that came out of a mediation session seeking to settle the legal dispute over fire services in the county.
Catoosa County officials are asking the Georgia Department of Transportation to approve the transfer of $115,000 in three state grants to complete the Catoosa Citizens and Veterans Memorial at Benton Place.
Four Republicans are seeking the nomination for Catoosa County Commission chairman in the July 15 primary election.
RINGGOLD, Ga. — Tracy Breon, the new Colonnade director for Catoosa County, served three years as events coordinator for the civic center and is familiar with its operations.
RINGGOLD, Ga. — James Cutler and Charles “Bud” Shadwick are vying for the Republican nomination on July 15 to face Democrat George Duncan for the District 3 Catoosa County Commission seat in November.
The first election in many years to select a Superior Court judge in the Lookout Mountain Judicial District has drawn Chris Arnt, Mike Giglio, Brian House, Bill Rhyne Jr. and Larry Stagg as candidates.
Incumbent Ken Marks and Barbara Wilson, a retired construction company vice president, are vying for the Republican nomination for the District 1 seat on the Catoosa County Commission.
Former deputy state librarian Diana Pope will become interim Catoosa County librarian starting July 1 and stay until a permanent librarian is chosen.
Motorists and residents along Mack Smith Road are marking their independence a few days early this year, celebrating freedom from six months of roadblocks and detours.
Government officials in Northwest Georgia and Southeast Tennessee said figuring a fuel budget is “a shot in the dark” these days, but the certainty of high prices has many devising programs to reduce fuel use.
The home construction market and new industrial expansion have slowed in Northwest Georgia as part of an overall national trend, but infrastructure development continues in preparation for future growth, officials said.
Catoosa Public Works Authority members expressed concern with continued costs to deal with methane at the old county landfill, and delayed a request to seek proposals on a system to keep water out of the well system.
Fort Oglethorpe is closer to having its eighth — or seventh — city manager since 2000 after council members worked in executive session Tuesday to select three finalists for city manager.
Charles Nichols assumed duties a month ago as the first full-time, paid Catoosa County fire chief.
The city council and mayor of Fort Oglethorpe will hold a called meeting Tuesday to narrow a list of city manager applicants to three finalists, and to discuss the streetscape project on LaFayette Road.
The Fort Oglethorpe Council on Wednesday avoided the potential loss of $2.1 million in special purpose sales tax funds by unanimously approving a government agreement it first considered Monday.
The failure of the Fort Oglethorpe City Council to approve anl agreement with Catoosa County on a special purpose local option sales tax could cost the city more than $2 million.
Fort Oglethorpe councilmen registered their displeasure with the county’s proposed distribution of special purpose sales tax projects and funds by declining to approve an intergovernmental agreement Monday night.
Fort Oglethorpe Councilman Louis Hamm became a plumber, pastor and politician in that order, but while he enjoys helping city residents his religious beliefs and standards come first.
Members of the 6th U.S. Cavalry Association reunite this weekend, renewing military friendships as well as memories of the sounds of horses and sights of prisoners of war at the former Fort Oglethorpe Army base.
RINGGOLD, Ga. — Rumors a temporary closure of Mineral Avenue at Cloud Springs Road might become permanent had one concerned resident going to the Catoosa County Commission for help.
Work to reopen a section of Mack Smith Road near North Avenue should begin Wednesday and be completed by the end of this week, Catoosa Manager Mike Helton said.
Before Catoosa commissioners can vote on the final list of special purpose local option sales tax projects, city councils in Ringgold and Fort Oglethorpe must approve an intergovernmental agreement on the tax, officials said.
Gov. Sonny Perdue on Monday halted a scheduled 2.9 cents per gallon jump in the state gasoline tax, saying Georgia should not be taking advantage of a tax windfall driven by spiking prices at the pump. Diesel taxes would have gone up 4.2 cents per gallon.
A downtown public parking lot that could figure into expansion plans by one of Cleveland’s oldest churches is underused, a city official said.
The steady increase in General Educational Development students at the Catoosa Learning Center is recognition of the importance of a degree, but so is a $500,000 state grant, officials said.
Fort Oglethorpe and Catoosa County, ordered into mediation to settle their dispute over fire service in the county, are no closer to resolving their standoff.
Fort Oglethorpe Councilman Steve Brandon said he will oppose Catoosa County’s special purpose sales tax on Sept. 16, and will recommend other residents vote “no” on the referendum, too.
Not all the small cities near Hamilton County offer a public swimming pool, but officials of those that do agree the summer recreation attractions are a service to residents.
Catoosa County has taken over business management of the Colonnade from the Catoosa Foundation for the Performing Arts to Catoosa County.
RINGGOLD, Ga. — Residents of Catoosa County and the cities of Ringgold and Fort Oglethorpe may get a look on Thursday at a new flood insurance study using digital technology maps.
RINGGOLD, Ga. — The chairwoman of the Northwest Georgia Regional Library Board said she wanted to clarify figures cited by some county officials when she supported the Catoosa County Library’s break from the regional system.
RINGGOLD, Ga. — Health, education, banking, governments, printing operations and the Battlefield Golf Club competed for attention from residents visiting the Catoosa Business Expo ’08 last week at the Colonnade.
RINGGOLD, Ga. — Catoosa County commissioners agree the capital projects listed on the $56 million special purpose local option sales tax (SPLOST) referendum will not cover all the county’s needs.
RINGGOLD, Ga. — Thousands of people will pack the streets downtown here today for the city’s 33rd annual 1890s Day Jamboree of music, dancing, a parade, food, fireworks, beauty pageants and a car show.
Catoosa County, Fort Oglethorpe and Post Volunteer Fire must enter formal mediation and try to reach a fire service delivery strategy within two months, a judge ordered Wednesday.
RINGGOLD, Ga. — A Superior Court judge today ordered Catoosa County and Fort Oglethorpe to enter formal mediation to try and come to an agreement on how to provide fire protection services for the county.
Residents and motorists who used Mack Smith Road between East Ridge and Cloud Springs before about 300 feet of the road was closed are still on hold.
The new Fort Oglethorpe swimming pool was dedicated Friday and named the Arlene Crye Municipal Pool in honor of the operator of pools for the city for the past 35 years.
The Fort Oglethorpe City Council approved a proposal from the North Georgia Family YMCA to partner with the city for aquatic services at the new Fort Oglethorpe swimming pool.
Fort Oglethorpe has rejected Catoosa County’s fire service delivery strategy.
Three region counties continue to look for ways to attain air quality that meets federal standards, but officials worry they have little control and more stringent regulations are on the way.<
Not long before Charles “Chuck” Nichols was appointed as Catoosa County’s first full-time fire chief, it was not clear if the county’s force of paid and volunteer firefighters was going to stay together.
A day after Catoosa County commissioners approved a new fire services plan, County Manager Mike Helton announced that Charles “Chuck” Nichols, 49, is the county’s first full-time fire chief.
RINGGOLD, Ga. — Charles “Chuck” E. Nichols, 49, a former assistant fire chief with the Tactical Services Division of the Chattanooga Fire Department where he worked for 28 years, has been named Catoosa County’s fire chief.
Catoosa County Fire-Rescue will provide fire protection services to all unincorporated areas of the county and to Ringgold under a service plan county commissioners unanimously approved Tuesday.
Catoosa County is near agreement with Fort Oglethorpe to let the city’s inspector approve the rest of construction on the West Chickamauga basin sewer project, county officials said.
The Georgia Winery on Battlefield Parkway, started as a hobby by Dr. Maurice Rawlings Sr. 25 years ago as the state’s first farm winery, has grown into a booming business, owner Patty Prouty said.
