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GDOT crews will be mowing on Rockmart highway as weather allows
Wed, 22 May 2013 06:17:26 -0700
Georgia DOT’s maintenance crews will be mowing the roadsides of SR 61 and SR 140 in Bartow County; roadsides of SR 20 and SR 140 in Cherokee County; roadsides of SR 101 and SR 1 Loop in Floyd Count...
Deaths & Funerals
Wed, 22 May 2013 14:01:41 -0700
ATLANTABeth F. Wright, 84, died Tuesday. Memorial service, 11 a.m. Friday, Johnson Ferry Baptist Church.
Plans for new LakePoint Sporting Community roads emerge
Mon, 06 May 2013 07:10:34 -0700
With funding from a Georgia Department of Transportation grant program that allows local governments to decide on projects, Bartow County is set to build two new roads to accommodate LakePoint Spor...
Local jail populations decreasing; numbers from the Ga. Department of Community Affairs also show fewer inmates are ...
Sun, 12 May 2013 07:50:44 -0700
Numbers from the Georgia Department of Community Affairs show that county jails are less full than they were this time last year, and fewer inmates who have been sentenced are waiting to be mov...
Former Braves pitcher Rick Camp dead at 60
Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:13:06 -0700
RYDAL, Ga. -- Former Atlanta Braves pitcher Rick Camp has died in northwestern Georgia. Bartow County Coroner Joel Guyton said 60-year-old Camp was found dead Thursday morning at his home in Rydal, about 55 miles northwest of downtown Atlanta. The cause of death wasn't immediately known.
Suspect caught after setting fire to neighbor's house for not mowing lawn
Thu, 16 May 2013 09:15:37 -0700
The man accused of burning down a neighbor's house over his long grass was captured in North Carolina and returned to Bartow County.
Murder suspect turns himself into Cartersville police
Tue, 14 May 2013 11:45:38 -0700
The second suspect wanted for a December murder turned himself into the Bartow County Jail on Tuesday.
Former Braves pitcher, Trion native Rick Camp dead at 60
Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:21:26 -0700
Former Atlanta Braves pitcher Rick Camp has died in northwest Georgia.
Red Cross thanks all community partners and donors who gave assistance after the January tornado
Fri, 10 May 2013 10:35:52 -0700
The American Red Cross would like to recognize and thank all of the community partners and major donors in Northwest Georgia who responded to the needs of the Gordon and Bartow County communities a...
Rick Camp dies; former Braves pitcher was 60
Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:34:12 -0700
RYDAL, Ga. — Former Atlanta Braves pitcher Rick Camp has died in northwest Georgia. Bartow County Coroner Joel Guyton says 60-year-old Camp was found dead Thursday morning at his home in Rydal, about 55 miles northwest of downtown Atlanta. Camp's cause of death wasn't immediately known. ...