Skeletal human remains were found in the yard of a Walker County homeowner late last Thursday. An animal apparently brought the remains to the yard. The remains have tentatively been identified as missing a 23-year-old Alabama woman named Timaya Williams. Officials say she had been missing from Montgomery since June 2024. Walker County law enforcement officials, the Rhea County, Tennessee, Sheriff’s Office, and K-9’s found the remaining human skeleton in a nearby wooded area on Friday morning. The human remains have been sent to the G.B.I. crime lab for an autopsy. The car Williams was driving was left abandoned on Highway 193 and found in early June 2024.
Walker County Animal Control officers are asking for the public’s help as they try to find out more about two dogs that were found left on the side of the roadway inside wire crates in the pouring rain late last week. A Walker County animal control officer was responding to a call on South Washington Street off Park City Road when he located one of the dogs running loose in the roadway. Upon further investigation, he located the second dog still inside a wire crate. Anyone with information regarding the dogs and/or the owner of the dogs is asked to contact Animal Control at 706-375-2100 Ext. 1. All tips can remain anonymous.
Just a reminder…the Walker County Landfill will be closed to all customers for a ten-day period beginning January 6th. A number of necessary repairs and renovations will take. Some of the work scheduled to take place includes replacing several structural columns, building panel and the concrete floor at the transfer station. There will also be work done on the scalehouse retaining wall. Those who have residential garbage service will see no change in their service. Paine Gily, landfill director, says residents without commercial garbage service will be able to visit the Catoosa County, Dade County or Trion transfer stations to dispose of their trash. Gily said if the work is completed early, they will re-open before January 16th.
The City of LaFayette will be closed on Wednesday of this week in observance of the New Year Holiday. As for garbage service, Wednesday’s pick-up will be on Thursday along with Thursday’s regular pick-up.
Former United States President Jimmy Carter passed away on Sunday in his hometown of Plains, Georgia. After serving a single term in the White House, Carter became one of the most durable figures in modern American politics. Upon leaving the White House at age 56, he held the status of former president longer than anyone in U.S. history, surpassing George H. W. Bush as the nation’s oldest living former president in 2019. Well into his 90s, Carter continued working as an observer of elections in developing countries, building houses through the nonprofit Habitat for Humanity and teaching Sunday School at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, 22 years after he left the White House. President Carter was 100 years old.