An estate sale nine months ago by Roger Wade and Pam Bradshaw planted the seed and, come June 1, The City Market, will sprout at 137 E. First St.
Owner Denise Miller bills the business as a blend o...
Ribbon cutting opens new design studio Rome architect Mark Cochran could not have imagined the growth of his firm since going solo three years ago. Cochran and his partners, architect Jessica Hester and interior designer Melissa Craven,...
Former Montgomery Ward building renovations continue Rome entrepreneurs Gregg and Diane Lewis have been renovating the former Montgomery Ward/G.C. Murphy building in the 400 block of Broad Street. The building also serves as home to the Roman Trading...
Groundbreaking for Polk Medical Center set for July 23
While there was no formal discussion of issues surrounding the extension of a new sewer line to the proposed Polk Medical Center during the Hospital Authority of Floyd County meeting Monday night, ...
Rockmart Huddle House closes; workers may move to Rome location The Huddle House, located at 808 West Elm Street, Rockmart, closed on Sunday, May 19, as noted on a sign erected at the site. Jack and Connie Montford have operated the business for the past four y...
Fosters Mill Store celebrates rebirth with community
A window of sunshine and no rain allowed the celebration of a Floyd County landmark to go on as planned. Ken and Jody Jones, owners of the Fosters Mill Store , located at the corner of Black’s B...
The doors were locked Thursday at a local company that helps process payroll funds, and police say the FBI is looking into the issue but has not launched an investigation. Rome police detective Gar...
Rome’s Ira Levy, who has made a career out of recycling, began to restore old properties back in Chicago before he even met wife Libby Levy.
He bought a grey stone home in the DePaul University ne...
Much of downtown Rome’s historic Broad Street properties were built in an age when the telephone wasn’t even imagined. In this new technologically oriented world, change takes place at such a rapid...
The Floyd County manager’s office received 28 applications for projects to be possibly included on a special purpose, local option sales tax package expected to go before voters in November. Fr...
Everything is NOT bigger in Texas. Consider the construction underway at Plant Vogtle near Augusta, which will add the first two nuclear power generation units in the U.S. in more than 30 years...
Rome is looking south for potential solutions to residential and commercial eyesores throughout the community. Community Development specialist Bekki Fox explained on Wednesday the concept of a Bl...
New home sales in Floyd County dipped 8 percent in April and the average sales price took an even larger tumble, falling 18.1 percent from the same month a year ago. But figures from the Georgia M...