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The Rome Exchange Club donated a new rocking chair to the Neo-Natal Intensive Care unit at Floyd Medical Center on Friday. Chip Nimmons (from left), made the presentation to Bridgette Dingle, Konda Dizons, Dr. Jack Owens along with Meredith Brown. (Doug Walker, RN-T.com)
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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 list has key projects for a special purpose local option sales tax package in November that could bring even more folks into the City of Seven Hills.
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The Rome Exchange Club donated a new rocking chair to the Neo-Natal Intensive Care unit at Floyd Medical Center on Friday. Chip Nimmons (from left), made the presentation to Bridgette Dingle, Konda Dizons, Dr. Jack Owens along with Meredith Brown. (Doug Walker, RN-T.com)
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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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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.
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Gov. Nathan Deal today instructed the state Department of Natural Resources to return Bibles to cabins and lodge rooms at state parks.
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