Whitfield County News

Third-graders in all 13 Whitfield County elementary schools will come home this coming school year with detailed report cards with grades on a scale of 1 to 4 rather than the use of percentages.

North Georgia Regional Development Center officials are challenging a state law that seeks to merge the NGRDC with the Coosa Valley RDC in a regional commission for northwest Georgia, a state official said.

Submitted by Bill Mitchell on July 1, 2009 - 10:09am. Whitfield County News A A A A A Whitfield county woman was killed Tuesday morning after her car and a dump truck collided on a rural road.

A woman was killed Tuesday after the car she was driving crossed the center line on Highway 201 in western Whitfield County and crashed into a dump truck head-on, said an operator with the Georgia State Patrol.

Submitted by Bill Mitchell on June 29, 2009 - 12:51pm. News Whitfield County News They are still cleaning up the mess after a dozen railcars went off the tracks & overturned Sunday.

Emergency workers look at where a section of a train carrying lumber and cotton seed derailed Sunday evening near Old Chattanooga Road in Rocky Face.

* Randall Dewayne Wingfield, 46, 4061 Loftis St., Chattanooga, Tenn., was charged Sunday by the Dalton Police Department with DUI, failure to maintain lane, following too closely and open container of alcohol.

The city of Dalton will leave the North Georgia Regional Development Center and become part of the Northwest Georgia Regional Commission, Mayor David Pennington said Monday.

Joining the city of Dalton and Whitfield County building, planning and zoning departments took another step forward on Monday.

The 10 boxes of bids for Whitfield County's ambulance service had to be wheeled into Administrative Building No.

One eastbound lane of Walnut Avenue will be closed on Thursday from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. for work by Whitfield County on paving Rosedale Drive.

* Rockie Lee Turnquist, 39, 4702 Chamblee-Tucker Road, Tucker, was charged Friday by the Murray County Sheriff's Office with sale of marijuana.

Submitted by WDEF on June 22, 2009 - 11:51am. Whitfield County News For the past 40 years, Trammell Suddeth has had a front-row seat to the economic progress of Whitfield County.

A Knoxville man has been arrested in Whitfield County, Georgia on child sex charges.

Around $500,000 in federal economic stimulus funds are available to the United Way of Northwest Georgia to meet needs in Whitfield and Murray counties, but on Thursday the agency's board of directors voted not to accept the money because of some of the requirements that go along with it.

A Knoxville, Tenn., man was arrested in Whitfield County today on state charges of criminal attempted child exploitation.

Local author Aimee Stinson released her second childrena s book, a oeThe Bearless City,a on June 16.

A trend away from traditional, letter-grade report cards is taking a hold in Georgia as schools seek better ways to inform parents on students' skills.

Dalton Utilities board members on Monday held off action again on a plan to extend sewers to Tunnel Hill.

Steve Jackson took a hunter safety course in October, and began thinking about getting a permit to carry a handgun about that time.