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'The Worst Type Of Evil': Life Sentence For November 2022 Murder
Aaron Davis had just aced the GCSE exam and called his parents to let them know how excited he was and that he was going to visit his best friend in Rome before going to see his girlfriend in Alabama. He was infamous for his loud shirts, had a flair for making people feel good and a love for his family that didn’t know any bounds. Teaching was a profession that the recent graduate was excited about, although he was still considering a career in...
Rome To Consider 'Small Bar' Concept
The Rome City Commission is scheduled to set the city and school property tax rates on Monday and get a first look at several changes recommended by the Alcohol Control Commission. A final public hearing on the proposed millage rates is scheduled just before the vote during the board’s 6:30 p.m. meeting at City Hall, 601 Broad St. Plans are for a slight decrease, to a combined rate of 26.25...
Arrest reports for July 21
Inmate accused of trying to smuggle drugs into prison. A Lilburn man is accused of conspiring with three other inmates to smuggle contraband into the Floyd County Prison in July of 2022. According to the arrest warrants:. 49-year-old Isaac Azriel Ross and the others used the prison phone system to...
Patriot and pastor: Union soldier and clergy member buried on Calhoun's campus
Jul. 20—While cleaning Oakland Cemetery, John Gaines and his history students looked across Airport Road and noticed a single headstone standing beneath pine trees on Calhoun Community College's campus. The engraving on the 129-year-old stone was worn. Examining the stone, Gaines could decipher the name Hiram Matthews. Through research, Gaines and other local historians learned about the man ...
Getting Ready For The Big Show: Meet The Contestants For RCDC
Rome is buzzing with excitement for the upcoming Rome Celebrity Dance Challenge on Aug. 3. The competition is a fundraising event held by the Sexual Assault Center of Northwest Georgia. Proceeds from the event go towards funding the center and the work it does throughout the community. Ten teams will perform and a panel of four judges will give out first and second place People’s Choice Awards and Judges’ Choice...
Darroll Freeman
Mr. Darroll Fred Freeman of Cedartown, Georgia passed on Friday, July 19, 2024, at the age of 94. Mr. Freeman was born November 16, 1929 in Sugar Hill, Georgia to Hinton and Avie Freeman. Mr. Freeman was raised in Sugar Hill, Georgia and a member of the champion Sugar Hill basketball team. He married Virginia […] The post Darroll Freeman appeared first on Polk Today.
Around Town: Rome Speedway Seeks Green Flag for Switch to Manufacturing Site. Atrium Pays $17.6M for Kindred Building.
On select summer evenings off U.S. 411 and Chulio Road, you can easily hear the roar in the air. It has nothing to do with the cicadas; instead it signals another gathering of racing enthusiasts at Rome Speedway. But those events have slowed in recent years, for health and other reasons, and now much broader changes are proposed. The Swims family purchased the speedway in 1968 and staged their first...
Elderly Woman Charged with Hitting Pedestrian in Walmart Parking Lot
An eighty-five-year-old Trion woman was charged after video footage showed her vehicle hitting a pedestrian in the parking lot of Walmart in Trion. According to a report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office, the pedestrian was walking into the store with her family and moved to the side to get out of the path of the vehicle driven by Mamie Hartline. The sheriff’s department maintains that video footage from Walmart surveillance shows Hartline swerving toward the family and striking a young female with the mirror of her vehicle. After striking the pedestrian, the footage shows Hartline’s vehicle slowing down, and words were exchanged between the victim’s family members. Hartline then parked the car, went inside, and started grocery shopping.
Rockmart Umpire Cheered At Rome Emperors Appearance
It’s rare for baseball fans to cheer for the umpire, but that was the scene earlier this month at a Rome Emperors game. Rockmart’s John Poulin was behind the plate for the Braves’ minor league affiliate’s July 10 game against the Greenville Drive at AdventHealth Stadium in Rome.
New Arrivals for the Wednesday, July 24, 2024 Edition of the Standard Journal
The following birth announcements were submitted by Atrium Floyd Medical Center on July 18, 2024. Congratulations go out to these new parents in the Standard Journal reading area. Noah Salvador Sebastian was born on July 16, 2024, to Setphanie Andrade and Ponciano Sebastian Osorio of Cedartown.
Parents reminded of changes for Rome City Schools
Sunday, July 21, 2024–5:13 p.m. The Rome City School Board is reminding parents about two important changes as they get ready for the 2024-2025 school year. Rome City Schools is switching from PowerSchool to Infinite Campus for their student information system and all students will be required to register for school this year by filling out a paper registration packet.
Beyond End of Watch Coming to Cedar Bluff Police Department in Honor of Sgt. Chris Vaughn
Cedar Bluff Police Chief Jeremy Stepps told WEIS Radio today that Beyond End of Watch will be at the Cedar Bluff Police Department on Saturday, July 20th. The time will be at 8: 30 am in honor of Cedar Bluff Police Officer Sgt. Chris Vaughn.
Football Preseason Officially Gets Underway Monday
With summer workout and conditioning programs now in the rear-view mirror, prep football teams will officially start the preseason Monday with their first of the GHSA’s mandated acclimation-day practices. In a rule adopted several years ago, the GHSA requires teams to hold five days of non-padded practices to acclimate to the heat before putting on the full pads. Several local teams will have a full week of those non-padded sessions,...
Women's Golf Introduces New Class
MOUNT BERRY, Ga. - Head Golf Coach, Brian Farrer as announced his newest additions to the Women's Golf Team. Emery is from Jasper, Georgia, and is a graduate of Pickens High School where she was a Beta Club member and team captain of the golf team. She won the Ledford Pruitt Dedication Award and was a Top 30 qualifier for golf three year in a row.
Central Region Senior Future Games: Preview
The next edition of the Prep Baseball Future Games will return to LakePoint Sports in Emerson, Ga., from Wednesday, July 24 through Sunday, July 28. Since the event’s inception in 2011, the Prep Baseball Future Games has evolved into the biggest college scouting event in the country, with more than 375 college coaches in attendance each of the last two years.
Summerville man charged with cruelty to children
Chattooga County Deputies were called out to Lake Wanda Reita Road in Summerville last week due to a complaint from a woman who said a child had wandered into her yard unaccompanied by an adult. The woman said that she knew the child lived next door and that she was between the ages of 2 and 3.
Global outage of Crowdstrike causing headaches aplenty; City of Cedartown among those experiencing issues
UPDATE: The Georgia Department of Driver Services went down due to the Crowdstrike outage, per the Associated Press this morning. They are experiencing outages at around 60 local offices statewide, per their reporting. Additionally, Atrium Health Floyd Polk Medical Center posted earlier this morning they were monitoring the situation, and if any individual patient’s appointment […] The post Global outage of Crowdstrike causing headaches aplenty; City of Cedartown among those experiencing issues appeared first on Polk Today.
5th annual Back to School event coming to Rockmart next weekend
Mark those calendars for next Saturday, July 27 as organizers provide a day of fun – and much needed supplies – for local youth and their families getting ready for the start of the new school year. The event held in memory of Dadrian “Wade” Cummings will give kids a chance to grab some free […] The post 5th annual Back to School event coming to Rockmart next weekend appeared first on Polk Today.
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