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by Brianna Mitchell, a fifth-grader at Johnson Elementary School.
April 2013 Young Artists
Every day, a different young artist's artwork is featured on the front page of the Rome News-Tribune. Here is a gallery of young artist images from April's front pages. To submit your own local yo...
May 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Ted Edwards, Rome-Floyd Planning Department intern, talks to Rome Middle School students about zoning. (Doug Walker, RN-T.com)
Students focus on historic Avenue A ; middle schoolers learn about caring for elderly and the environment
Rome Middle School students took advantage of a break in the rain Tuesday to get out of the classroom and into their community. The Keep Rome-Floyd Beautiful Neighborhood Focus program int...
May 08, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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Christopher Ortiz plays an elephant and Lilly Lary plays an elephant trainer at West End Elementary’s Kindergarten circus. (Lauren Jones/Rome News-Tribune)
West End has Kindergarten Circus
The ring leader’s voice boomed throughout the dark, crowded auditorium and the audience cheered, engrossed in the gypsies, the pirates and mermaids, the jaw-dropping magician and his lovely assista...
Apr 30, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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St. Mary's School students were inducted into the Junior Beta Club. (contributed photo)
St. Mary's School students inducted into Junior Beta Club
Twenty-fifth fifth grade students and two sixth grade students were inducted into the Saint Mary’s School Junior Beta Club this week. The National Beta Club is an organization for 5th through 12th ...
Apr 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Hunter Hays, a Model Middle School eighth grader, wrote an award-winning essay about America’s economic struggles. Hays is a student in Brandi Couey’s (pictured in the background) gifted class.
Student essay: Freedom is not free
It was a sign advertising free government cell phones that started turning the wheels of Hunter Hay’s mind. With an enormous amount of logic at a young age, Hunter began pondering hot political iss...
Apr 09, 2013 | 26 26 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
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Unity Christian School second-grader Taeleigh Jenkins accepted donations for Pet Connection instead of presents for herself on her 8th birthday. Taeleigh donated $300.58. She is the daughter of Sarah McCain and James Cato of Rome and Taekil Jenkins of Armuchee. (Photo contributed by Sarah McCain)
Local girl turns 8th birthday into fundraiser
Unity Christian School second-grader Taeleigh Jenkins accepted donations for Pet Connection instead of presents for herself on her 8th birthday. Taeleigh donated $300.58. She is the daughter of Sar...
Apr 08, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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by Yuridia Bautista, a student at Alto Park.
March 2013 Young Artists
Every day, a different young artist's artwork is featured on the front page of the Rome News-Tribune. Here is a gallery of young artist images from March's front pages. To submit your own local yo...
Apr 05, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Safe Kids to have dodgeball fundraiser Saturday
Floyd County public safety agencies will get a chance to show how fast they can move during a dodgeball tournament sponsored by Safe Kids of Floyd County on Saturday. The tournament begins at ...
Mar 29, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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PHS students get interview experience
by Lauren Jones
Mar 14, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
It takes a bit more to ace a job interview than just dressing nicely. In order to impress a potential employer, top notch communication skills, a clean resume, eye contact and a firm handshake coul...
February 2013 Young Artists
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Every day, a different young artist's artwork is featured on the front page of the Rome News-Tribune. Here is a gallery of young artist images from February's front pages. To submit your own local...
Darlington student teaches guitar classes
by Lauren Jones
Feb 12, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
The soft, amateur strumming of strings producing the sounds of a G chord can be heard wafting from the band room of Darlington Middle School on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. It isn’t so surprisi...
January 2013 Young Artists
Feb 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Every day, a different young artist's artwork is featured on the front page of the Rome News-Tribune. Here is a gallery of young artist images from January's front pages. To submit your own local ...
B&N donates books for kids
by By Lauren Jones
Jan 29, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
Scrambling toward tables that were thickly laden with children’s books, nearly 140 kids from the Rebecca Blaylock Child Development Center had a belated Christmas present last week. Barnes & Noble ...
Online votes could win $15,000 for Garden Lakes music program
Jan 01, 2013 | 2 2 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
Garden Lakes Elementary School music specialist Emily Threkeld is hoping the community can pull together and cast some votes to help her school win $15,000 for new musical instruments. Her first g...
Young Roman flyer goes for solo flight
by By Kent Whitaker
Jan 01, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Steven Hudson of Rome is a sixteen year old student at Rome High School and a cadet in the school’s Air Force ROTC. He is taking his dream of flight and turning it into a reality. “Ever since I ha...
Live history: Kids play presidential roles
by Lauren Jones, staff writer
Dec 18, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 15 15 recommendations | email to a friend
Franklin D. Roosevelt was perfectly still as he sat in his wheelchair, a blanket draped over his legs, with a small group of students waiting patiently. Attached to his coat was a button that read ...
Justin Bieber's monkey 'Mally' to become German property

The customs authority will formally transfer ownership of the animal to the German state on Tuesday.

Tue May 21 04:04:00 UTC 2013
Founding member of The Doors dies at 74, publicist says

Ray Manzarek, a founding member of The Doors whose versatile and often haunting keyboards complimented Jim Morrison's gloomy baritone and helped set the mood for some of rock's most enduring songs, has died. He was 74.

Mon May 20 19:43:55 UTC 2013
David Beckham announces retirement, who will take his place as sexiest athlete?

Which sports star is the hottest?

Mon May 20 15:01:09 UTC 2013
Charismatic Las Vegas mob lawyer mayor pens memoir
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Oscar Goodman ran Las Vegas for 12 years with a showgirl on his arm and a martini in his fist.
Tue May 21 03:26:45 UTC 2013
Justin Bieber's monkey to become German property

FILE - In this April 2, 2013 file picture, Capuchin monkey "Mally" sits on the head of an employee in an animal shelter in Munich, Germany. Justin Bieber's pet monkey is set to become the property of Germany. Mally the Monkey was seized by German customs March 28 when Bieber failed to produce required vaccination and import papers for the animal after landing in Munich. He said the customs authority will formally transfer ownership of the animal to the German state on Tuesday May 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)BERLIN (AP) — Justin Bieber's pet monkey is set to become the property of Germany.


Tue May 21 05:36:32 UTC 2013
Toby Keith says Okla. hometown is 'strong'

A tornado moves past homes in Moore, Okla. on Monday, May 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Country music performer Toby Keith says he grew up in the area near Oklahoma City that was hit by a devastating tornado.


Mon May 20 23:10:39 UTC 2013