Media release: Floyd Emergency Medical Services (EMS) will become Chattooga County’s official emergency medical service provider beginning in August. County Commissioner Blake Elsberry announced the agreement Thursday, just weeks after Atrium Health Floyd gained approval from the Georgia Department of Community Health to build a freestanding emergency department in the county ..read more

The Northside Swim Center is set to open on Tuesday, May 31. Due to a nationwide lifeguard shortage, the pool’s hours and days of operation, as well as rental dates and times and pool capacity has changed for the 2022 summer swim season. The pool will be open for ..read more

Pam Powers-Smith has been busy since moving to Rome in March 2021. She first joined the Rome-Floyd Chamber as Director of Business and Industry Services after leading the Opelika Chamber of Commerce in Alabama. In December, Powers-Smith was named president and chief executive office of the Rome Chamber. Come July ..read more

Just add signs at Dunkin doughnuts in West Rome: They’ve done a quick and gorgeous job with the new Dunkin doughnuts and beverages shop at 2101 Shorter Ave. in West Rome. So far, the only official word on progress is “coming soon” but our guess is it is about a month away at the most ..read more

About this page: Updates from the Floyd County Jail three times a day: 4 and 8 a.m., and 8 p.m. The latest each day from the Bartow County Jail. Reports from the Polk County Jail (weekdays). Updates from Cartersville Police and Bartow County Fire and Emergency Services. Plus: Safety, crime-fighting tips ..read more

The school year ended with extra police patrols in Rome, Cartersville, Floyd County and Polk County. At a faith leaders meeting called by One Community United on Wednesday morning to respond to other recent attacks, the carnage at Uvalde dominated comments from area religious leaders weary of inaction by lawmakers ..read more

Truett’s Chick-fli-A, 264 Shorter Ave., 6 a.m.-9 p.m. self-serve, dining room, drive-through until 10 p.m., curbside, Door Dash. Mount Berry Mall, 7 a.m. curbside breakfast; 9 a.m. inside; open until 8:30 p.m. Shipping Container, 6 a.m.-10 p.m. All Monday-Saturday. The home opener is Tuesday, April 12, vs. Hudson Valley ..read more

A program of study at Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC) is training students to guard sensitive information in a world where hackers are getting smarter every day. “Cybersecurity is both protecting the computers of the world and finding security holes; it’s learning how to setup our networks and computers to protect them from threat agents who want to steal or destroy our information,” said Dwight Watt, instructor of Computer Information Systems Technology, adding that the technology also protects financial information ..read more

Two sites that almost have legacy status in the development community won needed rezoning to move another step closer courtesy of the Rome-Floyd Planning Commission on Thursday. The more familiar one was a proposal for 34 acres off Dodd Boulevard between U.S. 411 and Callier Springs Road. Randall Shields and ..read more

In context: Rome-based Big Dan’s Car Wash continues to grow, both “organically” with new sites and now another purchase in the Tampa Bay area. The first Rome location at 18 Shorter Ave. opened last fall and new sites are due in Acworth, Kennesaw and Woodstock in addition to other Georgia and Southeast locations ..read more