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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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Armuchee Middle students develop leadership strategies
This year, outstanding students from across the nation will take part in a unique leadership development program being held in 30 cities across the country. Three of these outstanding students ar...
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Elm Street hosts Earth Day celebration
On Earth Day, students at Elm Street Elementary in Rome celebrated with many special guests from around the community. They also participated in some very unique recycling projects in honor of Eart...
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Darlington student helping McHenry make music
A sophomore at Darlington High School has been working with the music teacher at McHenry Primary to raise money for McHenry’s music program. Music has always been a huge influence in the life of ...
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BCEMS student wins independent elementary spelling bee
Berry Elementary and Middle School student Sophia Wilson won the 2012 Independent School Spelling Bee for Elementary students, grades 3, 4, and 5, conducted recently and hosted by Excel Christian A...
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Armuchee student wins national essay contest
Bennett Garland, a junior at Armuchee High School, has won a national essay contest sponsored by the National Society of The Colonial Dames of America. The essay topic Garland addressed in his es...
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March 2012 Young Artists
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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 March's front pages. To submit your own local you...
College and Career Academy senior brings home the gold
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Two high school seniors from Floyd County Schools College and Career Academy came home with medals from the 2012 SkillsUSA competition. The College And Career Academy’s SkillsUSA Chapter attend...
RHS Chorus tops last year’s All State record
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The Rome High School Choral Department is pleased to announce that thirty-six students from Rome High School were selected for the 2011-2012 Georgia Music Educators All-State Chorus. This is the hi...
School lunch menus, March 27-April 2
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FLOYD Tuesday: Grilled chicken salad plate, peanut butter and jelly uncrustable, pizza, chicken pot pie, tossed salad, corn on the cob, pinto beans, blushing pears, fresh fruit, orange juice or fr...
Montessori students show off at science fair
by Morgan Clemones, staff writer
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The Montessori School of Rome conducted its annual science fair last week at the Northwest Georgia Housing Authority gymnasium off Division Street in Rome. The MSOR Science Fair is an annual event...
Armuchee 10th grader composes ‘In Memorium’
by Kim Sloan, staff writer
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A musical composition birthed from sorrow has become a triumph for a young Armuchee composer. Kyle Green wrote “In Memoriam” for his music minister at Armuchee Baptist Church after her father pass...
Darlington students turn to wax for project
by Morgan Clemones, staff writer
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Third graders at Darlington worked hard to put together a wax museum full of historical figures dating back to the ancient Greeks and spanning all the way to the 21st century. “The wax museum was ...
1 Armuchee Odyssey team makes it to state
by Morgan Clemones, staff writer
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Armuchee Elementary School’s Odyssey of the Mind team ended up doing very well at the Regional Competition in Flowery Branch recently. Armuchee Elementary School had two teams compete in the compe...

Chuck Brown, who blended a unique mix of funk, soul and Latin party sounds to create go-go music uniquely identified with Washington, has died at 75 from pneumonia. 


Wed May 16 19:52:56 UTC 2012

From Aaron Sorkin to Ellen DeGeneres to Steve Jobs, let us know: Which celeb made the most inspiring graduation speech?


Wed May 16 16:43:40 UTC 2012

The drummer for the band OneRepublic was arrested in Denver after his girlfriend said he grabbed her head and threw her down during a fight.


Wed May 16 15:22:27 UTC 2012
For one last time, a crowd turned out to watch the goings-on on Wisteria Lane.
Tue May 15 15:10:41 UTC 2012

This image provided by Neal Street Productions shows, from left, Bryony Hannah, Jessica Raine and Helen George in PBS' fall schedule has a definite British accent, courtesy of the returning drama "Upstairs Downstairs" and newcomer "Call the Midwife."


Tue May 15 16:36:43 UTC 2012

FILE - In this May 26, 2010 file photo, Ellen DeGeneres arrives at the Ellen DeGeneres, who broke ground in 1997 as the first lead character on prime-time TV to reveal she was gay, is winning the nation's top humor prize.


Tue May 15 11:57:11 UTC 2012