Young Romans
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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UCS Student Gets Second in Spelling Bee
Katie White (center), a student at Unity Christian School, placed second recently in the Independent Schools Regional Spelling Bee held at Excel Christian Academy in Cartersville.
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Area Lunch Menus, March 9-15
FLOYD Tuesday: Mandarin orange salad, peanut butter & jelly un-crustable, pizza, chicken and dumplings, whole kernel corn, garden salad, black-eyed peas, tropical fruit salad, fruity punch, ...
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Local students nominated for Dooley awards
Students at Darlington, Pepperell and Coosa high schools have been nominated to receive the Vincent J. Dooley Award presented by Athletes for a Better World and the Georgia High School Association...
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A Cat in the Hat doll sits next to a birthday cake for Dr. Seuss at the Rome-Floyd Library. (contributed) Library has birthday celebration for Dr. Seuss
The children’s department at the Rome-Floyd County Library held a birthday celebration for beloved author Dr. Seuss today, complete with a birthday cake. Seuss, born Theodor Seuss Geisel on ...
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Scouts Earn Arrow Of Light Awards
Members of Cub Scout Pack 305 recently received their “Arrow of Light” awards, the highest award a Cub Scout can earn. Pictured (front row, from left) are: Nicolas Magana, Kevin Bishop and Trevor ...
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Rome Rotary Gives Out Terrific Student Awards
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The Rome Rotary Club named their Terrific Student Awards for February recently. All are eighth-graders at Rome Middle School. Pictured (from left) are: Daniel Ramos, Ricky Rivera, Kylie Copeland an...
Alto Park Wins Its Third Quiz Bowl In a Row
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Alto Park Elementary took top honors for the third year in a row at the 2010 Academic Quiz Bowl in the elementary division for Floyd County Schools. The elementary competition was started nine...
Armuchee Middle Wins Quiz Bowl
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Armuchee Middle School is the 2010 Academic Quiz Bowl middle school champions for Floyd County Schools. Armuchee Middle won two of the three middle school grade level competitions to take the middl...
32 St. Mary’s Students Qualify For Duke TIP
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Thirty-two fourth and fifth grade students at Saint Mary’s Catholic School qualified to participate in the Duke Talent Identification program. The students became eligible by scoring at the 95th...
RHS Junior Attends National Youth Leadership Forum
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This spring outstanding high school students from across the United States took part in a unique career development program in our nation’s capital, and Rome High School junior Deric Hunter Duke-D...
Darlington Announces Seniors’ Scholarships Through Feb. 1
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Darlington recently announced student scholarships through Feb. 1: Hunter Brooks has earned a $6,000 Spirit Foundation Legacy Scholarship to Auburn University. He is the son of Allison and Jeff Br...
Main Elementary students celebrate trees
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Main Elementary pre-K students and second grade students celebrated Arbor Day recently at their school by planting a bald cypress tree on the playground. The city of Rome donated the tree from the...
Shorter takes Monopoly to Alto Park Elementary
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The Shorter College Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) visited Alto Park Elementary School recently and conducted an educational unit on monopolies and budgets. The SIFE team donated four Monopoly ...
'Mission: Impossible' Star Peter Graves Dead at 83

Publicist Sandy Brokaw says Peter Graves died at his Los Angeles home just after returning home from brunch with his family.

Sun Mar 14 20:37:24 -0500 2010
'Tiger Woods' Makes 'South Park' Appearance

'South Park' creators have written Tiger Woods into the opening of the show's 14th season.

Sun Mar 14 08:46:27 -0500 2010
Lady Gaga's Bloody Nun Outfit Debut, Video Causes Uproar

Lady Gaga debuts her latest quirky costume, a bloody latex nun outfit, at her concert in New Zealand.

Sun Mar 14 08:07:38 -0500 2010
'Mission: Impossible' star Peter Graves dies in LA (AP)

FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2009 file photo, Peter Graves poses during dedication ceremonies for his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. His movie career spanned classics such as 'Stalag 17' to comedies such as 'Airplane!', but he is best remembered by many as the head of the 'Mission: Impossible' force in the 1960s and 70s. According to a publicist, Graves has died in Los Angeles. He was 83. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)AP - Peter Graves, the tall, stalwart actor likely best known for his portrayal of Jim Phelps, leader of a gang of special agents who battled evil conspirators in the long-running television series "Mission: Impossible," died Sunday.


Sun Mar 14 21:03:44 -0500 2010
'Alice' extends her No. 1 stay with $62 million (AP)

An image of Johnny Depp, as the Mad Hatter in the new 'Alice in Wonderland' film, stares down through the plastic tent covering the red carpet outside the Kodak Theatre as preparations continue for Sunday's Academy Awards in Los Angeles, on Saturday, March 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)AP - Alice is still ruling the movie palace.


Sun Mar 14 14:15:42 -0500 2010
ABC, Lifetime among winners of GLAAD Media Awards (AP)

Honoree Cynthia Nixon attends the 21st annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York, on Saturday, March 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer)AP - Joy Behar, Cynthia Nixon and the ABC drama series "Brothers & Sisters" are among this year's recipients of media awards from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.


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