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.

Paulding County’s Board of Commissioners last week awarded an Airport Hangar renovation contract to Striker Contracting, LLC, and also approved a separate agenda item to submit a request to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to release approximately 2.964 acres from federal obligations to be the site of the new Aviation Academy.

Thank you to the Dallas Rotary Club for proving dictionaries to all the 3rd graders in our county.

This month the Dallas Concert Series started an hour earlier to accommodate additional musical guests including Community Church of South Paulding, The Will Sam Band, and West Ridge Church. A new record number of attendees filled the available seating area to enjoy the presentation. As scheduled Crowder took the stage at approximately 8 o'clock to greet over 2200 audience members and fans.