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Jamie Barton
Opera singer to perform benefit concert at First Baptist Church
Opera star and Grammy nominee Jamie Barton will be featured in a benefit performance at First Baptist Church on May 30. Barton, a Rome native, is representing the United States at the premier inter...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Tickets on sale for Battle of the Bands competition
Seven local bands and musicians are competing in the fourth annual State Mutual Insurance Battle of the Bands competition in June. Rome residents can now get their tickets to see the competition li...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Marsha Mathews
Poetry Night returns to downtown Rome
The Summer Poetry Series returns with a May 30 reading at Schroeder’s New Deli. Rome audiences who miss the cool evening breeze as local and regional poets and authors read excerpts from their work...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Former Shorter University President Harold E. Newman shares a laugh with professor Terry Morris (left) and provost Craig Shull (right) before the ceremony. (Contributed photo by Aimee Madden)
Terry Morris, professor of history at Shorter, to speak at Exchange Club on Friday
Terry Morris, Professor of History at Shorter University, will be the guest speaker at the Exchange Club of Rome on Friday, May 24. Morris was born in Atlanta and attended Campbell high. He has bee...
May 22, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Johnny Pledger holds two of his finished dulcimers. (Summerville News photo)
Chattooga Co. finds a hobby after retirement - making medieval musical instruments
Johnny Pledger retired two years ago in May and around six months ago he decided that he wanted to try his hand at making dulcimers. That decision has led the Trion-area man to making eight of the ...
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Berry Angus Beef sale Saturday
ROME, Ga. – The Berry Farms Angus Beef will have a sale from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday (May 25) at Lavender Mountain Hardware in Rome. Berry Farms Angus Beef is 100 percent all natural Black ...
May 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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”Dixie Times,” starring Stacey Turner and Ken Wheeler, will be shown twice Saturday at the Hearn Academy building in Rolater Park in Cave Spring at 5:30 and 7:45 p.m.
Movie to be shown at Hearn Academy building in Cave Spring
A story about moonshine in small-town Alabama is coming to a Cave Spring theater near you. “Dixie Times,” a movie filmed mostly in Cave Spring, will be shown twice this Saturday at 5:30 and 7:45 p....
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150 years ago in May 1863: The Civil War Years
Rome Area History Museum volunteer Dennis Nordeman is compiling notable local news items related to the Civil War in commemoration of the war's sesquicentennial to be shared each week: Week en...
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NYers furious over photos taken through windows
by JAKE PEARSON,Associated Press
May 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
NEW YORK (AP) — In one photo, a woman is on all fours, presumably picking something up, her posterior pressed against a glass window. Another photo shows a couple in bathrobes, their feet touching ...
‘Need for Speed’ rolls film at Myrtle Hill Cemetery
by Lauren Jones, Staff Writer
May 17, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
Shouts of “Rolling sound!” followed by crew members scurrying to get out of the camera shot before the call of “Action!” interrupted the solemn atmosphere of Myrtle Hill Cemetery on Thursday during...
Breaking down the Savage Race - 7 miles of shocks, ice and mud
by Severo Avila, Features Editor
May 16, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
On May 11, a handful of foolhardy Rome residents willingly subjected themselves to a series of painful activities all in the name of fun and fitness. From dunking themselves in ice-filled water and...
Local Author Profile: Gary Towers and Genevieve Frazier
May 16, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Authors : Gary Towers and Genevieve Frazier Book : The Catcher About the authors : Towers and Frazier, married and living in Kingston, come to the world of literature from different fields...
Bluegrass Festival returns to Armuchee
May 16, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
The sweet sounds of Bluegrass music will fill the Armuchee air Memorial Day weekend when the 30th Annual Armuchee Bluegrass Festival returns to Rome. This year’s event will feature music by The Ton...
Traffic is expected to be tied up in some areas Thursday during filming for Dreamworks’ new movie “Need for Speed”
by Staff reports
May 15, 2013 | 13 13 comments | 36 36 recommendations | email to a friend
Rome will become the backdrop for a movie this week as a Dreamworks motion picture, “Need for Speed,” begins filming here Thursday. The work, which runs through Sunday, will lead to some road c...
UGA cheerleaders to appear on 'Today'
May 13, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — The University of Georgia's cheerleaders are visiting New York for an appearance on early morning TV. The Georgia cheerleading squad will appear on NBC's "Today Show" on Monday. ...
Chefs compete for best tasting butts and ribs
by Kim S. Jarrett, staff writer
May 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Barbecue chefs came from all over to prove that their ribs or butts tasted better and braved a drizzly Friday night to compete in the fourth Roman Roast on the River at Ridge Ferry Park. Fifty-five...

Police say actress Amanda Bynes has been arrested in midtown Manhattan after she heaved a marijuana bong out of a window.

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The 75-year-old star struggled to keep his eyes open during an early-morning interview.

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Which wholesome leading lady stole your heart as a bad girl?

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Director Roman Polanski speaks during a press conference for Venus in Fur at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)CANNES, France (AP) — Roman Polanski says the birth control pill has had a "masculinizing" effect on women and that the leveling of the sexes is "idiotic"


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CANNES, France (AP) — An autobiographical French-Cambodian film, "The Missing Picture," which explores the bloody history of Pol Pot's dictatorship in late 1970s Cambodia, has won the "Un Certain Regard" prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
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From left, director James Gray, actors Marion Cotillard and Jeremy Renner arrive for the screening of The Immigrant at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Friday, May 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)CANNES, France (AP) — After two weeks, 20 films and parade after parade down the red carpet, the Cannes Film Festival has not produced a clear-cut frontrunner for the Palme d'Or.


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