Daily News

With more than $20,000 in unpaid sewer fees from Commercial customers receiving water from the County the Hiawassee City Council, in a special called meeting Monday, approved a sewer service moratorium on new Commercial customers outside the city limits until a solution can be negotiated. McCaysville Mayor Thomas Seabolt made a mistake and it cost the city $341,000. The city’s request for payment through a Department of Community Affairs grant was denied because the project, completed by Holloway Trenching, was not bid out as required for all projects over $100,000.Blairsville Police officers responded to Copeland Restaurant located at 17 Merchants Walk in response to a 911 report of a female in the restaurant with a gun. Dispatch further advised that other patrons had disarmed the female. Upon our arrival Officers observed a female, later identified as Rebecca Rice of Blairsville, being detained by several people. Rice was taken into custody by Officers of the Blairsville Police Department without further incident. The investigation is ongoing.