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Trails for Recreation and Economic Development helps raise money for Redmond Trail
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TRED is building bridges. Or trails, to be more exact. The group Trails for Recreation and Economic Development has been raising money through private donations to help fund the Redmond Trail. It’s now seeking thousands of dollars in grant money for the trail, and is looking to local government and businesses for their support. It’s not matc...
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by Alan Riquelmy, Rome News-Tribune Staff Writer
Trails for Recreation and Economic Development helps raise money for Redmond Trail
by Alan Riquelmy, Rome News-Tribune Staff Writer
May 19, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
TRED is building bridges. Or trails, to be more exact. The group Trails for Recreation and Economic Development has been raising money through private donations to help fund the Redmond Trail. ...
Police still looking for leads 5 months since Slack’s death
by John Bailey, Staff Writer
May 19, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
On New Year’s Eve a neighbor found the body of 56-year-old Willie Terry Slack on the small front porch of a Kingston Road residence at 10:25 p.m. He had been fatally shot and was leaning against th...
Rome man charged with felony burglary for January break in
by Jeremy Stewart, Staff Writer
May 19, 2013 | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
A Rome man was arrested Saturday and charged with felony burglary, according to Floyd County Jail reports. According to the reports: Matthew Dewayne Maner, 33, of 60 Paris Lane, was arrested on a w...
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Jockey Gary Stevens (right) celebrates aboard Oxbow after winning the 138th Preakness Stakes. (AP)
Horse Racing: No Triple Crown for Orb; Oxbow wins Preakness Stakes
BALTIMORE — Oxbow put D. Wayne Lukas in the record books again with an upset of Orb in the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, giving the Hall of Fame trainer his 14th win in a Triple Crown race. Kentuck...
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Gordon Central High senior Deisy Najarro (seated, center) signed a soccer scholarship on Monday with Tennessee Temple (Chattanooga, Tenn.).
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For the Pepperell baseball team, it’s almost go time.
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CARROLLTON - With a state title on the line, two very evenly matched teams battled for almost the entire length of regulation on Saturday at West Georgia’s University Stadium.
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The Gordon Lee Trojans have not lost back-to-back games this season, and that trend continued on Saturday in Folkston.
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Silver Creek woman using bare hands to build house with rocks
by The Associated Press
May 17, 2013 | 25 25 comments | 18 18 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...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama’s policies are working
by Charles R. Shiflett, Rome
May 17, 2013 | 18 18 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...
UPDATE: Deal orders return of Bibles to rooms at parks
by AP, Staff reports
May 15, 2013 | 14 14 comments | 9 9 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, ...
Traffic is expected to be tied up in some areas Thursday during filming for Dreamworks’ new movie “Need for Speed”
by Staff reports
May 15, 2013 | 13 13 comments | 33 33 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Update: Berry College issues statement about Tennessee lawsuit
by AP, staff reports
May 15, 2013 | 6 6 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
Berry College is suing Tennessee’s higher education commission in a dispute over billboard advertising. Berry College says in the federal lawsuit that the Tennessee agency has threatened to su...
3 jail inmates charged with felony after flooding incident
by Alan Riquelmy, staff writer
May 14, 2013 | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
Floyd County Jail officials are tabulating the cost of repairs after they say three inmates flooded their cells during the weekend by overflowing toilets. Gregory Lee Causey, 33, of 1137 Stinso...
Tourist chief proposes SPLOST projects to Exchange Club
by Doug Walker, Associate Editor
May 18, 2013 | 6 6 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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