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Category Archives: Local News

[VIDEO] 2024 Coosa Valley Fair here through Saturday

[VIDEO] 2024 Coosa Valley Fair here through Saturday

Ocotober 3rd, 2024 – 3:00 PM Ethan Garrett – Digital News Editor & Video Reporter – For 75 years, the Coosa Valley Fair has signaled the start of fall for Northwest Georgia and Northeast Alabama residents. Known as “fall’s finest festival,” the fair has been proudly sponsored by the Exchange Club of Rome since its…read more

Traffic alert for Lindale on Friday as J.D. Vance visits

Traffic alert for Lindale on Friday as J.D. Vance visits

Thursday, October 3, 2024–12:30 p.m. -Staff reports- We have this traffic alert for anyone who will be driving in the Lindale area on Friday. Vice-presidential nominee JD Vance will be at the Lindale Mill for a campaign event at 1 p.m. Motorists can expect heavy traffic and delays in Lindale and on surface roads leading…read more

Stacy Thomson named Floyd County Teacher of the Year

Stacy Thomson named Floyd County Teacher of the Year

Thursday, October 3, 2024–12:15 p.m. -News Release- Floyd County Schools (FCS) is proud to announce that Stacy Thompson, a dedicated 7th Grade Science teacher at Pepperell Middle School, has been named the District Teacher of the Year (TOTY). Additionally, Tim Reynolds, a committed Special Education Paraprofessional at Model Middle School, has been honored as the…read more

Applications for Rome Christmas Parade begin October 15

Applications for Rome Christmas Parade begin October 15

Thursday, October 3, 2024–12:15 p.m. -Staff reports- If you want to enter this year’s Rome Christmas Parade, you can register starting on October 15. The deadline to enter will be November 1. Late entries will not be accepted this year. Registration will take place online at www.romechristmasparade.com. The theme for this year’s parade, which will…read more

Arrest reports for October 3

Thursday, October 3, 2024–12:10 p.m. -Floyd County Jail records- Report: Man bit police officer A Cedar Bluff, Alabama man is accused of biting a Cave Spring Police Officer. According to Floyd County Jail records: 39-year-old John Edwin Terry Jr. was pounding on the side of a parked camper trailer on Gadsden Road. Terry got belligerent…read more

Rome Water and Sewer Department submits 2025 capital wishlist

Thursday, October 3, 2024–12:02 p.m. -David Crowder, WRGA News- The Rome Water and Sewer Committee got their first look at the 2025 capital budget requests on Thursday. The requests include equipment and projects, totaling just over $73 million. According to Rome City Manager Sammy Rich that sounds like a lot of money, but in the…read more

Two-vehicle crash shut down all lanes on Shorter Avenue near Lowes Wednesday

Two-vehicle crash shut down all lanes on Shorter Avenue near Lowes Wednesday

October 2nd, 2024 – 3:25 PM Ethan Garrett – WRGA Digital News Editor & Video Reporter – A two-vehicle wreck on Shorter Avenue near Zaxby’s and Lowe’s temporarily shut down all lanes of traffic Wednesday afternoon. The accident resulted in a power pole being struck and broken with a line across the roadway. Floyd 911…read more

City and county leaders mulling parks and rec. facilities list

City and county leaders mulling parks and rec. facilities list

Wednesday, October 2, 2024–11:45 a.m. -David Crowder, WRGA News- Rome City Manager Sammy Rich and Floyd County Manager Jamie McCord have been meeting to work on a facilities list for Rome-Floyd Parks and Recreation. On Tuesday, members of the Rome-Floyd Joint Services Committee got an update on those conversations which revolve around the facilities that…read more

Committee discusses public safety communications system

Wednesday, October 2, 2024–11:40 a.m. -David Crowder, WRGA News- In 2013, Rome and Floyd County switched to a new 800 MHz communications system, which includes ten towers and 98 percent coverage anywhere in the county—from the Pocket to Cave Spring. Floyd County Manager Jamie McCord told the Rome-Floyd Joint Services Committee on Tuesday, it is…read more

Teen accused of making threat, firing gun

Teen accused of making threat, firing gun

Wednesday, October 2, 2024–11:10 a.m. -Floyd County Jail records- A Cave Spring teen was arrested Tuesday on charges of terroristic threats and reckless conduct following an incident at his residence on Gadsden Road. According to Floyd County Jail records: 19-year-old Dillan Cole Jones threatened to shoot the victim during a verbal altercation. He then walked…read more