#hometowncalendar Monday Rome City Commission meets at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall. There will be public hearings for three rezoning requests as well as recognition of years of service for City employees. Agenda Calhoun City Council: The Mayor and Council meet at 7:00 p.m. at the Depot Community Room, 109 South King Street. Agenda read more Read more
#hometownsports COLLEGES Berry College sports updates. Berry / Men’s and Women’s Basketball at Rhodes today. Women at 2 p.m., Men at 4 p.m. Shorter University sports updates. Shorter /Basketball: Women fall to Union, 56-55. Men also lost to Union, 109-96. Georgia Northwestern Technical College sports updates. / Georgia Highlands sports reports. Chargers / The GHC basketball games originally… Read more
#hometownweather Here are the latest snowfall totals from the National Weather Service. Officially, Rome recorded four tenths of an inch; Cave Spring, a half inch (as seen in the above photo of the Cave Spring cave from Rhonda Steed); and Cartersville, one inch. PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 1213 PM EST SAT… Read more
Northwest Georgia saw anywhere from a half inch to more than an inch of snow between Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. Please send us your snow pictures to [email protected]. From Scott and Leanna Miller, off U.S. 411 near Cartersville. read more Read more
#hometownweather Gordon County Sheriff Mitch Ralston reports that at approximately 5:30 p.m. Friday, deputy sheriffs and other county public safety personnel responded to the report of an older man, believed to be suffering from dementia, who’d wandered away from his residence in the Dews Pond community during the onset of the winter storm. Deputies scoured… Read more
Former U.S. Treasurer Bay Buchanan will be coming to Rome for a free event at Unity Christian School on Feb. 22 at 8 a.m. The event, which is open to the community, is sponsored by Unity Christian School’s Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chapter in partnership with the national youth conservative organization, Young America’s Foundation.… Read more
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#hometowndining Floyd County No reports. Bartow County No reports. Gordon County No reports. Polk County No reports. Chattooga County No reports. Read more
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#hometownsports HIGH SCHOOLS All Floyd County athletics events are canceled for today. Rome High at Woodland basketball games have been rescheduled for Monday at 6 and 7:30. Cedartown High School Basketball games for Saturday have been cancelled. (from WGAA) Cass High Basketball: All school activities are cancelled for Saturday. We play at home Tuesday against Creekview. read… Read more
#hometownheadlines Ware Mechanical weather: The latest on our forecast, watches and warnings. Forecast Snow reports from the weather service: 0.4 of an inch in Rome, half inch in Cave Spring, inch in Cartersville. Local roads: Traffic updates: Several problems around noon in Gordon County. Roads read more Read more
Here are the latest closing or cancellations for Saturday. If you have any to report, please send to [email protected]. Closings around metro Atlanta. Click WSB TV SCHOOLS Floyd County Schools: All activities, athletic events and practices involving Floyd County Schools for Saturday have been canceled. read more Read more
NOON UPDATE From Georgia DOT: Ga. 53 closed at the Pickens/Gordon county line because of a jackknifed truck. Ice report on U.S. 41 southbound near Woodland Circle near Calhoun: Georgia DOT reports all lanes blocked at this time but clean-up is projected for 12:15 p.m. Saturday. Get the latest here. read more Read more
#hometownweather As of 1 p.m. Saturday, we had not received any notices of delayed church or other services on Sunday. We will post those here as we receive them. Please send just a quick note (church, city and brief update) to [email protected]. Deadline: 9 p.m. Saturday. read more Read more
#hometownweather The situation: Only the wind advisory remains in effect until 7 tonight. The other watches and warnings are expired. The National Weather Service cautions motorists to look out for black ice, especially overnight and into Sunday morning. Temperatures as of 2 p.m. Rome airport: 34 degrees, with 28-degree wind chill. Winds of 18 mph.… Read more