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Rome bands pile up superior ratings all year
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The bands of Rome City School system have had a superior year at all performances. According to a Rome High press release: Each performing group that has been rated in a marching group, Jazz ens...
Zoo-like Cannes opens with Anderson's 'Moonrise'
by JAKE COYLE,AP Entertainment Writer
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CANNES, France (AP) — The sunbaked Cannes Film Festival got under way with Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom," whose carefully composed whimsy stood in stark contrast to the zoo-like atmosphere at t...
Harris completes Marine Corps boot camp
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Pfc. David A. Harris Jr., 21, of Cave Spring, son of David and Teresa Harris, graduated from U.S. Marine Corps boot camp. Harris successfully completed 13 weeks of intensive basic training at Par...
Georgia "Toddlers and Tiaras" standout gets own reality show
by Atlanta Business Chronicle
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Six-year-old Alana Thompson, of McIntyre, Ga., has snagged her own reality TV show on TLC, reports CBS Atlanta. Thompson, who is known as “Honey Boo Boo Child,” gained national media attention foll...
Local family creates website to help preserve United Methodist Church history
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A family effort has helped preserve a bit of Rome’s religious history. A web site – http://secondavenuechurchwindows.weebly.com –has captured a brief history of Rome’s Second Avenue United Met...
Call your mother and tell her you love her!
by Pastor Robert V. Ozment, Guest Columnist
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A.B. White said, “If the time should ever come when women are not Christians and houses are not homes, then we shall have lost the chief cornerstones upon which civilization rests.” Bovee reminds...
OZMENT: If you do the right thing victory is just around the corner
by Robert V. Ozment, columnist
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Recently I have been overwhelmed by so much to do and so little time to get it done. That is frustrating. A wise man once said, “I have no time to worry. In the daytime I am too busy to worry and a...
Harris completes Marine Corps boot camp
Pfc. David A. Harris Jr., 21, of Cave Spring, son of David and Teresa Harris, graduated from U.S. Marine Corps boot camp. Harris successfully completed 13 weeks of intensive basic training at Par...
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Roman garners top state environmental health award
Shaun Brand, environmental health manager for both the Chattooga and Dade county health departments in northwest Georgia, was honored at the recent 2012 Georgia Public Health Association annual mee...
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Model Student to march for UGA's Red Coats Marching Band
Timothy Ryan Cunningham, a senior at Model High School, has been chosen to be a member of the Red Coat Marching Band at the University of Georgia in his freshman year next fall. Ryan has always had...
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Students win speech awards
Area students competed in a county/district speech contest sponsored by Modern Woodmen of America, a fraternal financial services organization. Prior to this contest, the students already had won...
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Keep kids injury free while playing their favorite sports this summer
Summer vacation gives children a break from schoolwork, but for many, their participation in sports will continue in warm weather months. Parents, coaches and players need to keep injury prevention...
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Great gifts to make this Father's Day one to remember
What do you get the man who's done everything for you - from spending sleepless nights changing dirty diapers to trading in his muscle car for a minivan - but asked nothing in return? This year, st...
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Summer games in the garden
The sun is shining, birds are singing, butterflies are darting from colorful flower to colorful flower ... and children across the country are complaining about being bored. Eliminate this by takin...
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100 Years Ago
As reported in the FIFTY YEARS AGO column in the May 17, 1962, edition of the Rome News-Tribune Work commenced this week fifty years ago on Rome’s first apartment house. James H. O’Neill planned...
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50 Years Ago
Sunday, May 13, 1962 Maybe it wasn’t jealousy but ‘Dog Boy’ flees camp “Old Joe,” the Floyd County Public Works Camp prize bloodhound got a lot of publicity several days ago when he refused t...
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100 Years Ago
100 Years Ago As presented in the FIFTY YEARS AGO column in the May 10, 1962, edition of the Rome News-Tribune Wilson M. Hardy was succeeded as business manager of The Tribune-Herald by D.V. Gas...
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Fifty Years Ago
Tuesday, May 8, 1962 Midway students place in Floyd science fair The Floyd County Elementary Science Fair was held Saturday at Celanese School with seventh and eighth grade students participa...
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Rome bands pile up superior ratings all year
The bands of Rome City School system have had a superior year at all performances. According to a Rome High press release: Each performing group that has been rated in a marching group, Jazz ens...
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April 2012 Young Artists
Each day, a different young artist's artwork is featured on the front page of the Rome News-Tribune. Here is a gallery of young artist images from April's front pages. To submit your own local you...
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Rome High junior selected to attend Asian American Journalists Association's program
Rome High junior Sarah Carroll has been selected to attend the annual Asian American Journalists Association’s J-Camp from June 19-24. The journalism camp will be sponsored and held at Loyola Unive...
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Model High student designs event T-shirts
Kayla Milliken, a senior at Model High School, is seeing her art work all over the community these days. Milliken designed the t-shirt for this year’s Special Olympics and for the Cops for Kids an...
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