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Sleet and snow possible tonight, Tuesday; National Weather Service issues winter weather advisory
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The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory from 10 p.m. tonight until noon Tuesday for Floyd County and most of North Georgia. While little or no snow or sleet accumulation is expected in Floyd County, extreme north Georgia could see some accumulation, according to the weather service. Some area schools let students out ...
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Savings and opportunities in Tuesday’s Rome News-Tribune
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Save money by taking advantage of these offers from Rome News-Tribune advertisers. Pick up Tuesday’s paper for details. Inserts: West Rome IGA, Little Caesar's Berry College Child Developme...
Sleet and snow possible tonight, Tuesday; National Weather Service issues winter weather advisory
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The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory from 10 p.m. tonight until noon Tuesday for Floyd County and most of North Georgia. While little or no snow or sleet accumulation ...
EMA to host storm spotter class at Forum
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The Floyd County Emergency Management Agency will hold a SKYWARN storm spotter class at The Forum Monday, Feb. 22, at 6 pm. In the past two years, more than 250 people have attended the class spo...
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    The ran began at the yellow square on the left and ended at the yellow square on the right.
    The ran began at the yellow square on the left and ended at the yellow square on the right.
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    Daniel Bell: New shoes carried me 23.6 miles in week 9
    by Daniel Bell, staff writer
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    Today is Monday, Feb. 8, and I am feeling a little sore; not limping, whining, asking-for-sympathy sore, but sore nonetheless. Yesterday I ran an oddly specific 23.6 miles. I know the distance be...
    Saints win Super Bowl, 31-17 over Colts
    by The Associated Press
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    MIAMI, Fla. — Who Dat won the Super Bowl? The New Orleans Saints, that’s who. Ain’t kidding. Put away those paper bags forever: Drew Brees and the Saints are NFL champions, rallying to upse...
    Shockey leaves a mark on Super Bowl this time
    by The Associated Press
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    MIAMI — Jeremy Shockey wasn’t in a suite for this Super Bowl. Instead, he was part of the New Orleans Saints’ sweetest victory. Shockey hauled in a touchdown catch for the go-ahead score Sund...
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    Margaret Crider's Dolls
    Margaret Crider and three of her hand-made dolls at her home on Horseleg Creek Road, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. Gallery is for a story about the 95-year-old doll maker in Sunday s Roman Life section. (Lindy D. Cordell, RN-T.com)
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    St. Mary's Auction and Dinner
    St. Mary s held an auction and dinner at The Forum.(Ken Caruthers/RN-T.com)
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    Middle School Basketball Championship
    Darlington s Jeremiah McClure takes a shot over Rockmart s Bryant Middlebrooks and Demarcus Lenior during their game on Saturday. (Ryan Smith, RN-T.com)
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    8 arrested on drug charges after police respond to 911 hangup call
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    The Floyd County Police Department arrested eight people Wednesday night on 14 felony and 12 misdemeanor charges after responding to a 911 hang-up call at 3184 Rockmart Highway, lot 17, and smellin...
    Two jailed on aggravated child molestation warrants
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    Floyd County Sheriff’s deputies took two Rome men into custody Tuesday on warrants alleging aggravated child molestation, reports stated. According to warrants from the Floyd County Jail: Police...
    Full house creates post-concert traffic jam
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    Apparently the only person who got help leaving The Forum after Friday night’s Willie Nelson concert was the “red-headed stranger” himself. The still new Third Avenue parking deck was completely f...
    Where are they now? A look back at some high-profile criminal cases
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    Northwest Georgia has been the home to many notorious crimes over the years, and many of the people who perpetrated those crimes are still alive and residing in various prison systems, while all th...
    Rogers signs with Tenn.; other local signings on Prep Central
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    Calhoun High football star Da'Rick Rogers signed with Tennessee this morning. Rogers had verbally committed to Georgia last summer and had not formally announced his intention to go to Tennessee un...
    To change, Obama must listen to the right people
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    The letter writer of Jan. 24, could have stepped back to the first year of President Reagan’s term, just after taking over from the disastrous Jimmy Carter years, to see a similarity of how much Ob...
    Perdue: Teachers support merit pay, leaders should listen to rank and file
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    ATLANTA -- Quoting results of a survey completed by 20,000 Georgia teachers in December, Gov. Sonny Perdue said Monday that teachers overwhelmingly support his proposal for performance pay and that...
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    Recent Comments
    « Montezuma wrote on Monday, Feb 08 at 07:27 PM »
    wish2020: If Governor Purdue never did anything to benefit any of the citizens of the State of Georgia, then he would have never been re-elected. Now, he may have never done anything to benefit you personally, but he has done something to make the majority of Georgia citizens happy. It would be pretty difficult to be elected to political office if you always did something to upset the voting majority.

    Voter: Ruining? He has already ruined the educational system in Georgia and this only adds to the troubles. His faulty logic on switching two year colleges to the "Technical College" system is abhorrent. I re-started my college education at a two year college, so I really dislike that the State is looking to hurt college students. You also have this mess. What could be next to push Georgia to the educational standards below some "third-world" countries?

    I elected to obtain my graduate degree outside of Georgia because of the faulty educational system in Georgia. That is not to say that the educators are not good, but the other aspects of state colleges in Georgia are the problem. Hopefully the education system in Georgia can be fixed before it become too much of an issue.

    I personally see all sorts of issues with this plan. They are playing "king of the hill" with teacher's salaries. Instead of placing a standard set of metrics by which teachers should use to education(which is highly difficult, in and of itself), the State is going to pay the "top-tier" teachers. In order to be on top, someone must be on bottom. Since the State cannot rewrite physics, then I forsee this bring undue burden on teachers, students, and others.

    This will end up enticing some educators to "cook the books", instead of actually teaching children. While I am all for paying teachers a reasonable salary, there are others in government work(law enforcement, firefighters, 911 operators, utility workers, etc) that deserve good pay as much a teachers do.