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Engineers rate Georgia "C+" in infrastructure
The condition of Georgia’s infrastructure received a decidedly mediocre grade of “C+” Monday in a report released by the Georgia section of the American Society of Civil Engineers. “This is a wakeup call,” Tim Echols, vice chairman of the Georgia Public Service Commission, said during a news conference at the state Capitol. “We need to get better.” Georgia ports achieved the highest score — “B+ — among 14 categories the...
AdventHealth Celebrates Anniversary Of Clinic Reopening
CEDARTOWN — AdventHealth Medical Group Family and Internal Medicine at Cedartown is celebrating its first year since reopening in 2023. In 2021, Hospital Corporation of America shuttered the Redmond Family Care Clinic, which had served Cedartown since 2015 at the 1168 N. Main St. location and for several decades before at other locations. Following AdventHealth’s acquisition of Redmond Regional Medical Center in the fall of 2021, AdventHealth prioritized its footprint...
Will Rome's Property Tax Rate Change? Here's What We Know
The Rome City Commission is slated to decide Monday if it will keep the city’s property tax rate the same for 2024 or follow a committee’s recommendation to lower it. Commissioners will meet at 5 p.m. for a caucus that includes a presentation from the United Way of Rome & Floyd County. Their regular meeting — including a public hearing on the tax rate — starts at 6:30 p.m. Both sessions are in City Hall, 601 Broad St. ...
Floyd Considering Tax Rate Increase. Here's the Latest.
The Floyd County Commission is scheduled to hold a public hearing Tuesday on the proposed property tax rate for 2024. The board is advertising a return to 9.414 mills, following a slight decrease last year. Commissioners agreed to advertise an increase of 0.75 mills, up 8.7% from 2023, although they could opt to set a lower rate when the time comes to vote. Officials said a shortfall in tax collections...
Fake therapist fooled hundreds online until she died, state records say
Hundreds of Americans may have unknowingly received therapy from an untrained impostor who masqueraded as an online therapist, possibly for as long as two years, and the deception crumbled only when she died, according to state health department records. Peggy A. Randolph, a social worker who was licensed in Florida and Tennessee and formerly worked for Brightside Health, a nationwide online therapy company, is accused of helping her wife impersonate her in online sessions, according to an investigation report from the Florida Department of Health. ...
Artificial intelligence to affect broad range of public services
Georgia lawmakers may or may not develop legislation this summer and fall to establish state standards for regulating emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technology. But one certainty that became clear from the inaugural hearing of a state Senate study committee late last month is that AI will dramatically affect a wide range of government policy areas, from economic development to health care, education, public safety and transportation. “It’s going to impact...
Energy Company Eyes Gordon Co. Farm Property For New Plant
CALHOUN — An energy component company that recently gained a foothold in nearby Adairsville now has its sights set on a parcel in Gordon County. Representatives of Sunmax Tech are seeking annexation and zoning of the 155-acre former Payne Farm property just south of the Tom B. David Airport runway to develop a manufacturing facility. Annexation and zoning application documents filed with the City of Calhoun state that the Gordon...
Search for Cedartown Man Ends in Tragedy
A Cedartown man experiencing a mental episode killed himself Friday evening after police were searching for him off Riverside Parkway, according to police. Assistant Police Chief Rodney Bailey confirmed that Ryan Scott McCrickard shot himself as police and GSP were searching for him near the area of the ECO Center off Riverside Parkway. A couple hours earlier, police had shut down a part of Riverside Parkway and alerted the public...
Middle Georgia Man Gets Stiff Prison Sentence After Standoff With Police
A Warner Robins man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for shooting at federal and local law enforcement officers trying to take him into custody on felony warrants. Renaldo Smith, 33, had previously pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer and one count of using a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. Smith was wanted on state felony warrants when...
Dog Days Turn to Football Season Quickly
The Fourth of July, the GHSA’s mandatory dead week for high school sports programs and the sometimes unbearable heat have all arrived, and that means we’ve hit the dog days of summer. But there is hope, my friends. Those things mean we are right around a month away from high school fall sports. Yes, that’s right. We’re on the downhill slide to football season. ...
Infant Drowns In Pool At Floyd County Home
A 1-year-old infant drowned during a Fourth of July party at a home on Berkshire Lane on Thursday afternoon, according to the Rome Police Department. According to RPD Assistant Chief Rodney Bailey, party goers noticed the infant was missing and found her in the pool under a floating toy after a brief search. Several people were at the home and in the pool at the time of the drowning. Emergency...
Rome City Schools To Consider Speed Camera At West Central
On Tuesday, the Rome Board of Education will consider installing a speed camera at West Central Elementary following parent and citizen complaints of speeding on Lavender Drive. This isn’t the first time police have suggested placing a RedSpeed camera outside of the elementary school. Rome Police Department Chief Denise Downer-McKinney said the company conducted a traffic study in 2023 and provided the department with the results. The study showed that...
Teen Remains Hospitalized After Losing Legs in Train Incident
A North Rome teen who lost both his legs after being run over by a train early Thursday morning in North Rome remained in critical condition Friday. Police were initially called about a teenager passed out on the train tracks near Callahan Street early Thursday morning. Floyd County and Rome police were the first on the scene and administered first aid until emergency services arrived. Both the teen’s legs were severed by the train. The teen was transported to Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center in critical condition. Floyd County and Rome and briefed the Norfolk Southern Railroad investigator and turned the scene over to the company to complete an investigation regarding the incident.
Alvin Ridley, Ringgold Man Acquitted of Wife's Death 25 years ago, Dies at Age 82
Alvin Eugene Ridley, a man once considered something of an outcast in Ringgold, then a murder suspect, and finally a quirky and loved icon, passed away on July 2 at 82 years old. Ridley was born March 3, 1942. He served in the U.S. Army and later had a Zenith shop in Ringgold where he sold and repaired television sets. Ridley lived much of his life suspicious of the world...
Expansion For Two Rome City Elementary Schools Completed
Expansions for West End and East Central Elementary schools were finished over the summer in time for the 2024-25 school year. Rome City Schools started these expansion projects in the spring of 2023 and were projected to be finished in time for the start of the 2024-25 school year. The expansion of East Central Elementary created five new classrooms in a single-story building and a new playground. ...
Police Revisiting Unsolved 2017 South Rome Shooting Death
Rome police are revisiting an investigation of the June 14, 2017, shooting death of James Edward Parks. The incident took place around 9:34 p.m. on a Wednesday. Initial reports indicated that words and gunfire were exchanged by at least two parties and when police arrived on the scene they found Parks with a gunshot wound to the head in the roadway on Grover Street. “It appears that there were at...
Around Town: Stores, Fast Food Underway Near Baseball Stadium. D.C. Condo for MTG.
A lot of eyes are on the project going up adjacent to Lumina Coffee and Rocket Wash. It turns out to be a previously discussed multiuse site. Huck Corp. of Alpharetta is doing the project and a spokesman says to look for 11,000 square feet under roof overall, including a “nationally branded convenience store” as well as a liquor store and a fast-food “component.” No word yet on what type of restaurant is expected but it will be small. ...
As COVID cases rise, CDC recommends everyone get an updated shot this fall
With a summer wave of COVID-19 infections underway in Georgia and across the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are recommending everyone 6 months and older take one of the newly updated covid vaccines when they become available this fall. At a Thursday meeting at the CDC in Atlanta, infectious disease experts unanimously recommended the updated vaccines for Americans age 6 months and older. The CDC director signed off on the recommendation later in the day. The shots are expected to become available...
Annual Patriotic Party in the Park Draws Crowds Despite the Heat
Families, friends and neighbors gathered at Ridge Ferry Park on Thursday, braving the heat to celebrate Independence Day and demonstrating the strength of Rome’s community. The Caldwells were among those who traveled from out of town for the Patriotic Party in the Park. Thomas Caldwell was born in Rome and he and his wife came to the event to connect with family members for the day while having fun in one of their favorite parks. ...
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