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Vanessa Stansell (from left), Kim Prater and Diane Hudgins look through an album full of old photos and news clippings featuring Fosters Mill Store on Sunday during the grand opening. (Jeremy Stewart / Rome News-Tribune)
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Fosters Mill Store celebrates rebirth with community
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A window of sunshine and no rain allowed the celebration of a Floyd County landmark to go on as planned. Ken and Jody Jones, owners of the Fosters Mill Store , located at the corner of Black’s Bluff Road and Fosters Mill Road, had a grand opening Sunday. Families and neighbors sat around tables and shot the breeze on the front porch, all were...
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Floyd County Jail report May 20, 8 a.m.
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The Floyd County Sheriff's Office releases its jail intake report twice daily -- at 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. In this report: Males: 7 Females: 0 Total: 7 Oldest: 65 Youngest: 20 Average: 37
Vanessa Stansell (from left), Kim Prater and Diane Hudgins look through an album full of old photos and news clippings featuring Fosters Mill Store on Sunday during the grand opening. (Jeremy Stewart / Rome News-Tribune)
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Fosters Mill Store celebrates rebirth with community
by Jeremy Stewart, staff writer
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A window of sunshine and no rain allowed the celebration of a Floyd County landmark to go on as planned. Ken and Jody Jones, owners of the Fosters Mill Store , located at the corner of Black’s B...
Storms rumble through Floyd County; flooding causes problems on local roads
by Jeremy Stewart, staff writer
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Two rounds of strong thunderstorms Sunday brought heavy rains and wind down on Rome and Floyd County. Nearly two and a half inches of rain fell as of 10 p.m. as flooding along smaller creeks and st...
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama’s policies are working
by Charles R. Shiflett, Rome
May 17, 2013 | 30 30 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
Obama’s policies are working President Obama has been elected twice by the American people. That included winning the Jewish vote. The Obama Administration has the best Middle Eastern foreign poli...
Silver Creek woman using bare hands to build house with rocks
by The Associated Press
May 17, 2013 | 25 25 comments | 19 19 recommendations | email to a friend
SILVER CREEK — A woman is using her bare hands to build a house in the woods by stacking large rocks on top of each other, one rock at a time. After a posting on the Rome Georgia Yard Sale Faceboo...
UPDATE: Deal orders return of Bibles to rooms at parks
by AP, Staff reports
May 15, 2013 | 14 14 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Gov. Nathan Deal today instructed the state Department of Natural Resources to return Bibles to cabins and lodge rooms at state parks. Out of an abundance of caution to avoid potential litigation, ...
Coomer: U.S. 411 a ‘national flashpoint’
by Doug Walker, Associate Editor
May 16, 2013 | 4 4 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
The debate over the U.S. 411 Connector to Interstate 75 has become a “national flashpoint issue,” according to state Rep. Christian Coomer, R-Cartersville. Coomer and the other Floyd County delega...
Traffic is expected to be tied up in some areas Thursday during filming for Dreamworks’ new movie “Need for Speed”
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Rome will become the backdrop for a movie this week as a Dreamworks motion picture, “Need for Speed,” begins filming here Thursday. The work, which runs through Sunday, will lead to some road c...
Tourist chief proposes SPLOST projects to Exchange Club
by Doug Walker, Associate Editor
May 18, 2013 | 7 7 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
The tourism industry brought more than $117.2 million dollars into Floyd County in 2011, according to Greater Rome Convention and Visitors Bureau Executive Director Lisa Smith. And her wish li...
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by Alan Riquelmy, staff writer
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The state Charter Committee said Friday it will postpone a decision on whether Floyd County schools violated its charter agreement by failing to include local input in its decision making process. ...
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