The Paulding Rotary Club welcomed Caroline Gransbo, an international student from Sweden who is currently attending West Georgia University. Caroline is in the Georgia Rotary student program (GRSP).

Paulding County, GA. Detectives with the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division and Agents with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) have been conducting an investigation into what was originally dispatched as a vehicle fire.

The Dallas Board of Elections voted unanimously to disqualify Narda Konchel and to remove her from this year’s Mayoral ballot, upholding a challenge by Mayor Boyd Austin. Mayor Austin filed a challenge stating that Konchel had not met the requirements of the City Charter because she could not prove that she had been a city resident for at least one year prior to application.

CareLink Health Center in Dallas is actively seeking more staff volunteers to help meet a growing number of requests for care. Located at 625 W. Memorial Dr. in Dallas, CareLink of Northwest Georgia officially opened last year and has just passed its 10th month of being open for business.

Congratulations to the Stinger Battalion Cadet of The Month Winner for Aug 2019: Cadet Private Matthew Wix and NCO of the month Cadet Sergeant First Class Madison Bowles! Each month cadets from each of the three companies are selected by their leadership to represent their company.

Additional support is now available for Chattahoochee Tech students who have experienced foster care thanks to a $30,000 grant awarded to the Chattahoochee Tech Foundation by the J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development, a unit of Public Service and Outreach at the University of Georgia.

On Wednesday, September 11, 2019, the Paulding County Sheriff's Office and the Paulding County Fire Department will hold a ceremony at Mt. Tabor Park (at the 9-11 memorial site) honoring the men and women who gave their lives to help others on one unforgettable day, 9/11/2001.

Hiram High School Career and Technical Instruction (CTI) student organization elected officers for the 2019-20 school year. The officers are Daniel Hamilton, President; Alondra Perez-Bonilla, Vice President; and Abby Buice, Secretary.

Brown and Caldwell’s Kelly Comstock, a managing consultant on Paulding’s Richland Creek Reservoir (RCR) project, updated the Paulding Board of Commissioners last week on RCR progress, which will begin this month to prepare the reservoir basin for the intake of water.