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