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Northwest Georgia Housing Authority wants to add assisted living units
The Northwest Georgia Housing Authority is lobbying for funding to build a 50-bed assisted living unit in High Rise No. 1 on North Fifth Avenue. Public housing residents who eventually need spe...
May 23, 2013 | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Partners at Cevian Design Lab, 401 Broad St., snip the ribbon to ceremonially open the new architecture and interior design studio. Lead architect Mark Cochran (hands on scissors from left), architect Jessica Hester and interior designer Melissa Craven do the honors while Chamber of Commerce ambassadors cheer. (Doug Walker / RN-T.com)
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,...
May 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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In this reader contributed photo, workers continue renovations on La Scala downtown on Tuesday, May 21, 2013.
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...
May 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Floyd Medical Center
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, ...
May 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Rome McDonald's franchises fall somewhere in the middle on the 'Quarter Pounder Index'
Think all Quarter Pounders with cheese are the same? You’d be McWrong. The McDonald’s burger varies in price depending where you go. The “Quarter Pounder Index,” a creation of NerdWallet.com , ran...
May 20, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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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...
May 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Vanessa Stansell (from left), Kim Prater and Diane Hudgins look through an album full of old photos and news clippings featuring Fosters Mill Store on Sunday during the grand opening. (Jeremy Stewart / Rome News-Tribune)
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...
May 20, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jack Money, an expert on travel to Mexico, assists a client on the phone at Magical Travel & Events. (Doug Walker, RN-T.com)
Local travel agents enjoying comeback by offering advantages for vacationers versus what can be found on the Internet
As technology continues to evolve in the form of the Internet coupled with mobile devices, travel agents — who were once considered to be the workplace equivalent of dinosaurs — are enjoying a Laza...
May 19, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Release: Data Processing Services of Ga. working with federal authorities after problem with payroll deposits
by Doug Walker, Associate Editor
May 17, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 40 40 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Levy named Chairman of the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
by Doug Walker, Associate Editor
May 13, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Cities strive to hold on to history, embrace future
by Doug Walker, Associate Editor
May 12, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
County sees influx of SPLOST proposals on final day
by Jeremy Stewart, staff writer
May 11, 2013 | 10 10 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
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...
Demolition beginning on North Broad Street
May 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Click here to read a previous report about plans for the Goo-Goo Express.
Georgia Power’s Todd Terrell tells Rome Rotary Club members Plant Vogtle’s two new units won’t come on line until 2017
by Doug Walker, Associate Editor
May 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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 officials consider ‘blight tax,’ look at ways to encourage maintenance on properties that aren’t owners’ primary residences
by Doug Walker, Associate Editor
May 09, 2013 | 8 8 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend
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 and prices dip in April but local real estate agents are encouraged by overall trend
by Doug Walker, Associate Editor
May 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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...