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(From left) 2012 Georgia Public Health Association President and Chatham County Environmental Health Manager Todd Jones; Georgia First Lady Sandra Deal; Environmental Health Manager for Chattooga and Dade Counties Shaun Brand and Georgia Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald. (contributed photo)
Roman garners top state environmental health award
Shaun Brand, environmental health manager for both the Chattooga and Dade county health departments in northwest Georgia, was honored at the recent 2012 Georgia Public Health Association annual mee...
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Timothy Ryan Cunningham stands with his parents, Tim and Cindy Cunningham of Rome. (Contributed photo)
Model Student to march for UGA's Red Coats Marching Band
Timothy Ryan Cunningham, a senior at Model High School, has been chosen to be a member of the Red Coat Marching Band at the University of Georgia in his freshman year next fall. Ryan has always had...
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Caroline Young (left) and Bo Crick placed in a speech contest sponsored by Modern Woodmen of America. (Contributed photo)
Students win speech awards
Area students competed in a county/district speech contest sponsored by Modern Woodmen of America, a fraternal financial services organization. Prior to this contest, the students already had won...
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Fries earns SCAD degree
Colleen Fries of Silver Creek, recently graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Fries earned a BFA degree in photography.
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(Doug Walker / Rome News-Tribune)
Old dorm items help charities
Berry College’s Green Team has worked, for the third year in a row, with Habitat for Humanity of Rome-Floyd County , More Space Storage Solutions and the Hospitality House for Women to colle...
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Rome native wins Japan Studies fellowship
Rome native Brian Burnes has been awarded a Japan Studies Institute Fellowship by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities in support of his participation in the JSI scheduled at...
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Floyd County graduates at the May 1st ceremony included Skyler Akins, Executive Director of the Cave Spring Downtown Development Authority; Michael Hackett, Assistant Division Director of the Rome Water and Sewer Division and Steven McDowell, Rome Downtown Development Authority.
Floyd County public servants graduate from Georgia Academy for Economic Development
The Georgia Academy for Economic Development announced this week that 3 of Floyd County's own have graduated from their multi-day training program. Graduates from the May 1 ceremony included Skyl...
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Berry College theater students honored for recent production
Berry College Theatre Company students and faculty have been honored by the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival adjudicator for their contributions to the recent production of “The Las...
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Silver creek native wins student award
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Nicholas Godfrey, a student at Armstrong Atlantic State University from Silver Creek, was honored during Armstrong’s spring 2012 student awards ceremony. Godfrey received the Wesleyan Scholarship A...
Berry College student earns prestigious Goldwater Scholarship
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Berry College junior Aaron Ostrander has been awarded the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship for his work in physics and mathematics. Congress established the Goldwater Scholarship in 1986 to hono...
Rome High gets Earth Day donation
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A native dogwood tree was presented by the Rome Noon Optimist Club, Junior Optimists and Three Rivers Nursery to Rome High to commemorate Earth Day. Pictured are Tygar Evans (from left), Katie Ches...
Roman wins service Distinguished Service Award
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Ezekiel “Zeke” McDaniel Sr. of Rome was recently awarded a Distinguished Service Award recently by President Mark McCall of the Mason-Dixon Committee of the Georgia Association for the Deaf. McDa...
Gingrey announces Congressional art competition winners
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Congressman Phil Gingrey announced the winners of the annual Congressional Art Competition during a recent ceremony at the Rome Area History Museum. First and second place winners came from Darli...
Floyd Rome Retired Education Association announces scholarship winners
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The Floyd Rome Retired Education Association recently announced its 2012 scholarship winners. Daphnie Morrison, chairperson of scholarships presented the scholarships to Aimee Renshaw, senior at Be...
Unity student wins state award
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Barrett William Irmscher, a seventh-grader from Unity Christian School, was selected as the winner of the DAR American Essay Contest sponsored by the Xavier DAR Chapter of Rome. He has also been ...
Mary Holcomb is Educator of Distinction
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Teacher Mary Holcomb of Rome High School was selected as a Claes Nobel Educator of Distinction by The National Society of High School Scholars. Holcomb was nominated by Christopher Lamont Bell fo...
'Baywatch' star Gena Lee Nolin debilitated by weight gain, hair loss, heart palpitations

Behind the 'Baywatch' scenes, Nolin felt anything but strong and sexy.


Wed May 16 09:27:51 UTC 2012
Michael Caine found himself trapped in attic dressing room after quick snooze, report says

British film star Sir Michael Caine spent the night trapped in an attic dressing room while filming in New Orleans.


Wed May 16 09:13:30 UTC 2012
John Doe #1 in John Travolta sex assault suit hires Glora Allred to represent him

On Friday, the mystery masseuse was dropped by his first lawyer.


Wed May 16 08:22:28 UTC 2012
Make way for the camel: Cannes film festival opens

Actor Sacha Baron Cohen poses with a a camel during a photo call for The Dictator at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)The extravaganza named Cannes got under way Wednesday with Wes Anderson's carefully composed whimsy and Sacha Baron Cohen's theatrics.


Wed May 16 08:43:16 UTC 2012
'The Dictator' takes his camel out in Cannes

Actor Sacha Baron Cohen, left, falls off a camel during a photo call for The Dictator at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)"The Dictator" knows how to make a scene.


Wed May 16 08:35:31 UTC 2012
Appreciating Mexican author Carlos Fuentes

FILE.- In this Friday, June 10, 1983 file photo Mexican diplomat and author Carlos Fuentes addresses Harvard University's graduates during Commencement Exercises, in Cambridge, Mass. Whatever they may have thought of his politics, anyone lucky enough to have conversed with Carlos Fuentes couldn't help but be taken by his patrician good looks and his love affair with language. Fuentes died in Mexico City Tuesday at the age of 83.(AP Photo/Sean Kardon, File )Whatever they may have thought of his politics, anyone lucky enough to have conversed with author Carlos Fuentes couldn't help but be taken by his patrician good looks and his love affair with language.


Wed May 16 09:25:41 UTC 2012