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Dinner and show fundraiser to benefit DeSoto Theatre restoration
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The Historic DeSoto Theatre Foundation will host a dinner and a show fundraiser on Saturday, March 27, starting at 6 pm with wine and cheese at the DeSoto. At 6:30 p.m., guests will take a few st...
Berry senior wins prestigious marketing award
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Berry College senior Megan Moffatt is one of four Georgia college students chosen to receive a new award being presented by the Atlanta chapter of the American Marketing Association. Ken Bernhard...
Rome native directs 'Frankly, My Dear' at Nashville theater
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Described as "hilarious, irreverent and mostly true," Frankly, My Dear - which purportedly tells what happened when David O. Selznick demanded a new script for Gone With the Wind - opens at Chaffin...
Study: Young adults less affiliated with religion
by Athens Banner Herald
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Is faith losing its grip on the young? That would be one way to read a new report by the respected Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, which found that more than one-quarter of Americans age 18 ...
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Study: Young adults less affiliated with religion
by Athens Banner Herald
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Is faith losing its grip on the young? That would be one way to read a new report by the respected Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, which found that more than one-quarter of Americans age 18 ...
Small Cave Spring youth group has lots of heart
by Kevin Myrick
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The youth at Grace Fellowship Baptist Church might be a small group — only 10 seventh-grade to college-aged students are in the program — but they make up for it with great enthusiasm. Youth orga...
Forgiveness is the road to peace
by Robert V. Ozment
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All of us could be better than we are. Only a few people reach their potential. We must learn to respect and forgive others. God made us to be like him. There is nothing more devastating to a human...
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Megan Moffatt Berry senior wins prestigious marketing award
Berry College senior Megan Moffatt is one of four Georgia college students chosen to receive a new award being presented by the Atlanta chapter of the American Marketing Association. Ken Bernhard...
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Rome native directs 'Frankly, My Dear' at Nashville theater
Described as “hilarious, irreverent and mostly true,” Frankly, My Dear – which purportedly tells what happened when David O. Selznick demanded a new script for Gone With the Wind...
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High school seniors eligible for Blood Assurance scholarship
The Blood Assurance Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2010 Crystal Green Memorial Scholarship. Applications for the one-time $1,500 scholarship must be postmarked no later than Marc...
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KneckDown to perform benefit for Sexual Assault Center
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. On April 3, the Sexual Assault Center of Northwest Georgia will hold a benefit concert with KneckDown at 7 p.m. at the Rome City Auditorium. Tickets are $...
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Home & Living
10127_B82_rgb3.jpg Fire sprinkler systems soon to be required in your new home
Fire sprinkler systems have been proven to save lives. National statistics show that having a fire sprinkler system in your home can actually double your chances of escaping a fire and minimizing ...
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9917_B189_rgb3.jpg Calling all moms: eliminate morning madness
Every mom knows that the only thing to expect in the morning is the unexpected. Between finding time for a shower, getting the kids’ teeth brushed and keeping the dog from drinking out of th...
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10125_B1_rgb3.jpg Gambling on college sports can have consequences
The NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament tips off March 18. And while the 64 qualifying teams hope to make the Final Four, the rest of the country will follow the tournament through brackets i...
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Roman Life
Martin s Five Generations Five Generations
Above are members of Ava and Eli Martin’s family tree. Seated, from left, are: 97 year-old Mae Booth (great-great-grandmother) holding Eli Martin, and LaRae Martin (grandmother) holding Ava Martin...
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Ruth Brewer is a volunteer at Heyman Hospice Care. (Ryan Smith, RN-T.com) Hospice: Giving comfort to the living while caring for the dying
“I don’t look at it as caring for the dying. Death is just one moment. I care for the living. There’s hope and comfort in that. And when the moment comes for someone to leave, then we also try to ...
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100 Years Ago
As presented in the Fifty Years Ago column in the Monday, March 7, 1960 edition of the Rome News-Tribune March 1910 came in like a lamb, and the most lamb-like thing in Rome at the time was the ...
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50 Years Ago In Rome News-Tribune
24 persons seek refuge in home at Cedar Bluff CEDAR BLUFF – As many as 24 persons found refuge in the Russell Early home as Northeast Alabama’s most vicious ice storm hit Cedar Bluff. Accord...
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Friday, 12, 2010
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Berry College’s Campbe... 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Berry College’s Campbell School of Busines...
Rome-Floyd Parks and R... 12:00 AM to 12:00 AM
Register for the Rome-Floyd Parks and Recr...
The Shorter College Of... 6:00 PM to 8:00 AM
The Shorter College Office of Financial Ai...
Floyd Co Animal Contro... 12:00 AM
Passionate Volunteers are needed to help t...
The Home School Days p... 10:00 AM
The Home School Days program sessions will...
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High school seniors can apply for scholarship from Blood Assurance
The Blood Assurance Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2010 Crystal Green Memorial Scholarship. Applications for the one-time $1,500 scholarship must be postmarked no later than Marc...
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Each local high school chose a student and teacher to honor in the STAR recognition. Armuchee: Student Lauren Michelle Collins and teacher Leigh Burnham Area STAR Students, Teachers To Be Celebrated
Rome and Floyd County’s top SAT takers will be honored this week at a lunch banquet during the Exchange Club of Rome’s weekly meeting. The Student Teacher Achievement Recognition program recogn...
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Midway Primary School students Hannah Grace Nash (left) and Kinsey Pyles sort through sock donations. Midway Primary Students Collect More Than 1,200 Pairs Of Socks
Students at Midway Primary were thinking about their fellow man recently when they donated more than 1,200 pairs of socks for the children in Haiti who survived the earthquake. Even though this ...
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Artwork Wanted For Endangered Species Day
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Endangered Species Coalition, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art/ University of New Orleans are organizing an art co...
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