Charles Oliver

1 week ago | daltoncitizen.com | Charles Oliver |Victor Miller

Published 8:15 am Wednesday, April 16, 2025 The Whitfield County Board of Commissioners voted 3-0 Monday to purchase 14 new portable emergency radios from Motorola for $95,487. The radios will be used by school resource officers (SROs). Commissioner Robby Staten was absent and board Chairman Jevin Jensen typically votes only when there is a tie.

2 months ago | dailycitizen.news | Charles Oliver

A second man has been arrested in connection with August 2024 shootings that left four people dead at Pleasant Grove Park. Andres Jared Guzman, 18, of 11 E. Creekview Drive S.W. in Rome, was charged Tuesday by the Whitfield County Sheriff's Office with murder (non-family, gun). In a press release Wednesday, the sheriff's office said Guzman was arrested in connection with the shootings.

2 months ago | dailycitizen.news | Charles Oliver

Last fall, the Whitfield Remembrance Project held an event at the unmarked grave of Lon McCamy to bring attention to the last man believed to be lynched in Whitfield County. On Saturday, the group, which was formed to promote racial reconciliation, will further honor McCamy's memory when they travel by chartered bus to the Equal Justice Initiative's Legacy Sites in Montgomery, Alabama, to deliver soil from the site of McCamy's lynching.

2 months ago | dailycitizen.news | Charles Oliver

Expect to see Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts busy in neighborhoods across the Greater Dalton area on Saturday. For the past 40 years, Scouting America, formerly the Boy Scouts of America, has organized Scouting for Food, an effort to gather food for local food banks across the nation. Locally, Scouting America is partnering with the Kiwanis Club of Dalton in the effort to collect nonperishable food items, such as canned and boxed goods, as well as hygiene products such as toothpaste. On Saturday, Feb.

2 months ago | dailycitizen.news | Charles Oliver

A Whitfield County man has been charged with the Saturday murder of a man on Princeton Way. J. Mayelo Puentes, 28, of 105 Princeton Way, Dalton, is charged with murder (non-family gun) and possession of a firearm/knife during the commission of a felony for the death of Ulysis Garcia, 38. According to a statement from Sheriff Darren Pierce, deputies received a call around 7:23 a.m. regarding a shooting on Princeton Way.