Tunnel Hill News

The metropolitan Dalton area has an unemployment rate of 12.4 percent, well above the national rate of 9.5 percent.

Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to attend special programs commemorating the anniversary of the Battles for Chattanooga the weekend of Nov.

A* Nathan Daniel Franklin, 33, 140 Campbell Road, Tunnel Hill, was charged Monday by the Whitfield County Sheriff's Office with simple battery and terroristic threats and acts.

Blue Bell Creameries honored Tunnel Hill Elementary School on Friday with a school-wide ice cream party to celebrate the school's being named a 2009 No Child Left Behind-Blue Ribbon School.

The Whitfield County Address Project is entering its final phase as 2,500 to 3,000 city of Dalton residents were notified of their new addresses in a mail-out this week.

* Johnny Lee Jeffery Mills, 36, 4881 Cleveland Highway, Cohutta, was charged Tuesday by the Whitfield County Sheriff's Office with being a fugitive from justice .

Dona t miss the new peacock painting on the barn at the Pratera s Mill Country Fair on October 10 and 11 near Dalton, GA.

The Whitfield-Murray Historical Society is seeking the drawings, cartoons and caricatures of the late Jim Westbrook for their headquarters at the Crown Gardens and Archives at 715 Chattanooga Ave.

You could say Rebecca and Daniel Hardin met in 1864. Both were participating in the annual Battle of Tunnel Hill Re-enactment - he as a soldier and she as a civilian - when their paths first crossed 12 years ago at the event's ball.

It's been almost a year since Whitfield County held a groundbreaking for a park on Landfill Road in Westside.

* Heather Leighann Beavers, 35, 507 Stone St., Dalton, was charged Friday by the Georgia State Patrol with DUI.

WHITFIELD COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS WORK SESSION OCTOBER 5, 2009 AT 6:00 PM ADMINISTRATIVE BUILDING #2, 214 W. KING STREET THE WORK SESSION IS CALLED TO ORDER BY THE CHAIRMAN Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag Proclamation - National 4-H Week of October 4-10, 2009 Census Brief Resolution to name Tunnel Hill Park Building Permit Fee Tables ...

* Derek James Griffin, 21, 190 Catalina Isle Drive, Merritt Island, Fla., was charged Thursday by the Whitfield County Sheriff's Office with probation violation.

* Tara Leanne Lewis, 30, 215 Woodland Drive, Dayton, Tenn., was charged Wednesday by the Whitfield County Sheriff's Office with probation violation.

* Ronald Weslee Biddy, 28, 23 Falcon Circle, Eton, was charged Thursday by the Murray County Sheriff's Office with theft by taking and theft by deception.

More than 1,100 schoolchildren from Whitfield County and Bradley County, Tenn., stared wide-eyed at Civil War re-enactors as guns cracked around them Friday.

Charles Sanford walks quickly to the battle beside his fellow soldiers in the 35th Tennessee infantry.

A family member of the Whitfield County school bus driver whose bus was hit by a logging truck on Tuesday said his injuries are serious but he is "stable." Larry Satcher, 60, of Cohutta, was reported to be in "good condition" by a spokeswoman at Hamilton Medical Center on Tuesday after the wreck, which stopped traffic on Highway 201 between Tunnel ...

Editor's note: For the complete agenda for Monday night's City Council meeting, search for "agenda" in our search box.

Travelers visiting historic sites spend more money and stay longer than other types of tourists, says Melanie Suggs, interim executive director of the Dalton Area Convention and Visitors Bureau.