A community meeting is scheduled for next Tuesday. Walker County and Terracon Consultants will host the event. The discussion will center around the county’s Brownfield Grant program. There will be an update on properties in the program. That includes the Peerless Woolen Mill in Rossville and the Crystal Springs Print Works Mill in Chickamauga. Information will also be shared for other property owners who wish to get involved. The program is set for 6:30pm next Tuesday at the Walker County Civic Center on Highway 27 in Rock Spring.
Walker County Fire and Rescue battled a brush fire last night in Flintstone. The fire was put out with no one injured.
A Georgia judge has ruled county election officials must certify election results by the deadline set in law and cannot exclude any group of votes from certification even if they suspect error or fraud. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ruled that “no election superintendent (or member of a board of elections and registration) may refuse to certify or abstain from certifying election results under any circumstance.” While they have the right to inspect the conduct of an election and to review related documents, he wrote, “any delay in receiving such information is not a basis for refusing to certify the election results or abstaining from doing so.” Georgia law says county election superintendents, which are multimember boards in most counties, “shall” certify election results by 5 p.m. on the Monday after an election — or the Tuesday if Monday is a holiday as it is this year.
The LaFayette High School girls softball team will be hosting the 1st round of the GHSA State Playoffs on Friday. The Ramblers face Long County. Game 1 and 2 will be played at 4pm and 6pm. If a game 3 is necessary, it will be played Saturday at noon.
