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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

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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 of… 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

Smile Report: Rockmart’s Brandy Singleton converts GED from GNTC into booming photography business

Posted on December 29, 2014 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

Media release: Brandy Singleton’s current career path in photography began at home when she was young. “It’s always been in our family; my twin brother actually works in photography and my father works in television,” said Singleton. “It’s always been in the back of my head that it was what I wanted to do for… Read more

Smile Report: Floyd’s College and Career Academy robotics team qualify for state tournament

Posted on December 19, 2014 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

Media release: The Floyd County Schools College and Career Academy robotics team participated in their first competition of the year at North Forsyth High School this week. From a field of 41 robotics teams, the two College and Career Academy teams finished in third and fifth places to automatically qualify for the state tournament. The… Read more

Smile Report: Floyd alums (two of whom teach here) take graduation to yet another destination

Posted on December 19, 2014 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

Media release: Destination Graduation does not always end with high school graduation or even college graduation with a bachelors degree. Robbie Vincent, Linda Franklin and Kerry Martin recently graduated with their doctorate degrees from Lincoln Memorial University. The three are Floyd County graduates and all are now educators. Vincent and Franklin teach at Pepperell Elementary School… Read more

Smile Report: Rome Noon Optimist Club’s Middle School Students of the Semester; East Central’s Students of the Month

Posted on December 11, 2014 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

Here are the Rome Noon Optimist Club’s Middle School Student of the Semester. From left to right are: Rebecca Wilson, Armuchee; Zoe Rodin, Berry; Clayton Tibbetts, Coosa; Carolyn Nida, Darlington; Zariah Clay, Georgia School for the Deaf; Ethan Temples, Model; Camron Miles, Pepperell; Josie Cole, Rome; Clayton S. Tillery, St. Mary’s; and Emma Grace Risler,… Read more

Smile Report: Sheriff’s Zombieland raises $10,000 for Cancer Navigators

Posted on December 10, 2014 by hometownheadlines • 0 Comments

Media release: Sheriff Tim Burkhalter and the Floyd County Sheriff’s Office would like to issue a special thanks to all of our friends and ZOMBIE buddies that made ZOMBIELAND, The Resurrection 2014 a huge success. All of the proceeds go to the Sheriff’s Youth Initiative Fund that supports local youth programs in Floyd County. Through the generosity… Read more