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Smile Report: Darlington’s DarBots team takes state title, heading to Texas next for regional showdown

Posted on February 17, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

Media release: Darlington’s DarBots robotics team took first place in the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) state tournament on Saturday after outperforming 34 other Georgia groups. The team was also awarded the Rockwell Collins Design Award, the tournament’s top engineering prize, by a panel of professional engineers. In the semi-final round, members of Darlington’s robotics team… Read more

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Smile Report: Two Darlington seniors selected for GADA Scholarship Award Competition

Posted on February 16, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

From Darlington: Seniors Natalie Collins and John Goldin have been selected to represent Darlington in the 2015 High School Female/Male Scholarship Award Competition, sponsored by the Georgia Athletic Directors Association (GADA). The program recognizes seniors who have represented their respective sports well both in performance and in leadership. Two winners will be chosen from… Read more

Smile Report: West End wins sixth-grade math competition at Berry; Unity’s Clay Crawford takes individual honors

Posted on February 14, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

Media release: The Spring 2015 Sixth Grade Berry College Mathematics Contest was held on campus Thursday, Feb. 12. Twelve sixth-grade teams competed. The top three teams were: First, West End Elementary School (Rome); second, Armuchee Middle School (Floyd County), and third, Gilmer Middle School. read more

Smile Report: Zac Mitchell, an eighth-grader at Coosa Middle School, takes county spelling title

Posted on February 11, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

Media release: Zac Mitchell, an eighth-grader at Coosa Middle School, used his theater experience to control his nerves and confidently spell “haiku” and “expertise” to take the spelling championship at the 2015 Floyd County Schools Spelling Bee. The system’s annual spell-off was held on Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 9 a.m. at the Floyd County… Read more

Smile Report: East Central earns Proudly We Hail Award from Exchange Club’s Americanism Committee. More honors.

Posted on February 11, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

Members of the Americanism Committee of the Exchange Club of Rome visited East Central Elementary School’s 571 students on Monday morning, Feb. 9, to make a special presentation to the students, faculty and staff. East Central was named one of three schools to receive the Proudly We Hail Award given by the Exchange Club of Rome… Read more

Smile Report: Big weekend for Rome Aerials gymnastics team

Posted on February 3, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

Media release: The Rome Aerials gymnastics team seems to be hitting their mid-season stride in 2015. This past weekend, the Aerials competed at the “Paws for a Cause Invitational” at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. The weekend started off with Levels 3,4,5 taking home 57 medals total with Lori Pendleton (Level 5) taking… Read more

Smile Report: Floyd 4-H earns 40 honors in youth public speaking event

Posted on February 2, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

Media release: On Saturday, Jan. 31,Floyd County 4-H hosted, the county’s largest youth public speaking event, Northwest Georgia Cloverleaf District Project Achievement, held at Georgia Highlands College. The day started out with a welcome from Georgia Highlands President Dr. Don Green. Students then presented speeches on various topics that they had a special interest in. … Read more

Smile Report: Coosa High wins opening round of WSB’s High Q; to broadcast Saturday at 12:30 p.m.

Posted on January 29, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

Media release: Coosa High’s soaring IQ was on display as a team from the school won their first round match Wednesday night for WSB-TV’s High Q program. High Q is a television game show formatted public affairs program that pits high school teams against one another. The teens match wits in a fast-paced barrage of… Read more

Smile Report: Armuchee Middle’s Kayla Hutcherson wins Floyd County Schools Gifted Oratorical Contest.

Posted on January 23, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

Media release: Kayla Hutcherson, an eighth-grader at Armuchee Middle School, has won the 2015 Floyd County Schools Gifted Oratorical Contest. The event was started in 2009 to allow gifted students to display their academic skill and connect with other gifted students. “Just as athletes showcase their talents, we want our academically gifted students to… Read more

Smile Report: Georgia Highlands announces president’s, dean’s lists for fall 2014

Posted on January 22, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

Media release: Georgia Highlands College has announced students named to the 2014 fall President’s List and Dean’s List. To achieve President’s List status, students must earn a 4.0 grade point average and attain a minimum of nine semester hours of credit. To make Dean’s List students must complete a minimum of nine semester hours and… Read more

Smile Report: East Central’s Students of the Month and PE Students of the Month

Posted on January 21, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

Meet the top performs of the month of December from East Central Elementary School off Dean Avenue in East Rome.

Smile Report: The Kiwanis Club of Rome celebrates 100 years

Posted on January 20, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

Media release: The Kiwanis Club of Rome celebrated this centennial anniversary at their weekly meeting Jan. 19. In attendance were local club members as well as Lt. Gov. Division 11 Jack Deaton and his wife Shelley. Festivities included reviewing historical photos from 1915 (the first Kiwanis club was chartered Jan. 21, 1915) and the announcement… Read more

Smile Report: Pepperell High wins Floyd County Schools’ Academic Decathlon

Posted on January 15, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

Media release:The Pepperell High Academic Decathlon team was crowned champions in the Floyd County Schools Academic Decathlon competition held at the Board of Education central office on Wednesday, January 14, 2015. Pepperell pulled away in the competition to outpace the traditionally strong Coosa High team. Coosa has won 21 of the last 26 competitions. Daniel Lovell… Read more

Smile Report: Darlington’s Chris Mauer selected for Georgia Music Educators Association District 7 Middle School Honor Jazz Band.

Posted on January 14, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

Media release: Darlington eighth-grade student Chris Mauer has been chosen to represent the school at the Georgia Music Educators Association District 7 Middle School Honor Jazz Band. He will join other top jazz students from the district at a musician clinic and performance in Cartersville, Jan. 16-17. Over the weekend, Mauer will audition and rehearse… Read more

Smile Report: Saint Mary’s Cameron Pickens earns second place in North Georgia contest honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Posted on January 13, 2015 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

Media release: Cameron Pickens, a third grade student at Saint Mary’s Catholic School, won second place overall in an archdiocesan-wide elementary school contest honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The Archdiocese of Atlanta includes 15 elementary schools in Atlanta and North Georgia. The 2015 theme for the annual contest was a gospel verse from the… Read more