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Porterdale puts shelter suit on hold
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The city of Porterdale has decided to wait and see how events unfold at Monday night's Covington City Council meeting before continuing with legal action against the Rainbow Covenant Ministries homeless shelter. At a status conference Friday morning before Newton County Superior Court Judge Horace Johnson Jr., city of Porterdale Attorney Tim Chambers said the city would wait and see if the shelter would be able to voluntarily relocate to Covington before it would proceed with its lawsuit against the shelter. Chambers said Porterdale would be closely following the outcome of Monday night's