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An elderly couple that has ties to Cedartown has been the subject of a Mattie’s Call as authorities are still trying to locate them. Floyd County Police say 83-year-old Willie Pearl Billiot and 77-year-old Demetrius Billiot of Port Sulfer, Louisiana were last seen in northeastern Floyd County on Friday. TheyContinue Reading
KINGS BAY, Ga. – A 2007 Rockmart High School graduate and Rockmart, Ga. native is serving in the U.S. Navy as part of a crew working aboard one of the world’s most advanced ballistic missile submarines, USS West Virginia (SSBN 736). Petty Officer 2nd Class Steven Swan is a machinistContinue Reading
PRESS RELEASE According to Sheriff Clark Millsap, just after 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014, the Bartow County 911 Center began to receive calls of a man shooting persons at a home on Brent Circle. Deputies and investigators responded with rescue personnel to the scene and as they didContinue Reading
The football season may not officially begin until August 29, but the Cedartown High School Bulldogs will be headed down to Douglas County to take on New Manchester in a pre-season scrimmage game. Cedartown finished the 2013 season with a 9-2 record, one of them a pivotal game against thenContinue Reading
It’s happened again. Another woman is reporting an attack on a Georgia trail. The latest attack was in Atlanta, after the one on the Silver Comet Trail in Paulding County and the other on the Iron Hill Trail at Red Top Mountain Park in Bartow County. Law enforcement do not believeContinue Reading
Cedartown High School students were forced to eat food elsewhere following the discovery of what Polk School District officials called a roach infestation in the cafeteria kitchen. However, since that time, extensive work by pest control services and the school district maintenance personnel, the problem has now been eliminated, accordingContinue Reading
ATLANTA – The Georgia Department of Labor announced today that Georgia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for July was 7.8 percent, up four-tenths of a percentage point from 7.4 percent in June. The rate in July of last year was 8.3 percent. “The July rate increase is primarily due to temporaryContinue Reading
Motorists headed back to Cedartown from the Rome area Thursday afternoon were delayed for almost an hour after a two-vehicle accident on Highway 27 near Booger Hollow Road in Floyd County. According to Floyd County 911, a number of emergency units were sent to the wreck where two vehicles ranContinue Reading
Polk County students return to the classroom Thursday as the 2014-2015 school year begins all across the Polk School District. With the increase in traffic expected around schools and in school bus zones, Cedartown Police Chief Jamie Newsome urges drivers to take some extra precautions in their commute during peakContinue Reading
Authorities in Bartow County continue to investigate a shooting where two people are dead and three others were injured. According to WSB-TV, three people were shot at a home on Brent Circle near Euharlee. Bartow County Sheriff Clark Milsap said one was pronounced dead at the scene and two othersContinue Reading
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