Business

Roman Record is always on the lookout for local small businesses, nonprofit organizations and now, social clubs, to feature each Monday in print and online. To be placed on our schedule, just click on the appropriate form at left to download, print and complete, then send it to us either by email at RomanRecord@RN-T.com or by mail to: Roman Record, 305 E. Sixth Ave., Rome, GA 30161. A Word document version is also available by request. For a small business, choose Small Business Snapshot, for a nonprofit organization or a social club, the Highlighting Helping Hands and Romans Reach Out form does double duty.

Rome pharmacist Keith Winslette has been doing his best to decipher physicians’ prescriptions to take care of Romans since 1980.

Waters Edge Forge, a local blacksmith business, has opened in Armuchee.

A meeting in Rome on Friday involving nonprofits that feed the hungry will attempt to gain support for expanding a federal tax credit to the state level that would benefit an estimated 1 million Georgia families.

An amended memorandum of understanding between Ledbetter Properties and the city of Rome for a redevelopment plan on Riverside Parkway will go before the full City Commission for a vote on Sept. 26.

Suzanne Gay hopes her decision to step away from Ginger’s Dollings & Cattywags, 247 Broad St., doesn’t mean the store is going away. Gay announced her plans to give up the business, sometime after Christmas, in a Facebook post.

Planners at the Northwest Georgia Regional Commission in Rome have completed a Development of Regional Impact report for a proposed distribution and warehousing facility in Bartow County and determined it is consistent with local and regional plans.

Cycle Therapy will open its new shop in Central Plaza at 10 a.m. this morning.

The first hundred customers to the new Jack’s Family Restaurant on Martha Berry Highway Wednesday morning, Sept. 14, will receive a free sausage biscuit. The new restaurant will open at 5 a.m.

Berry College will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Berry College Chapel Sunday, Sept. 18, at 5 p.m. The public event will be highlighted by the dedication of a new carillon, a gift from the Berry College Class of 1988 and the national Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

The Georgia Department of Transportation has awarded a nearly $56.5 million contract to widen Ga. 140 from Ga. 53 in Floyd County east into Bartow County.

Barnsley Resort welcomes Michelle Pasley to its team as the new spa director at Barnsley Resort.

The Olive garden restaurant, 789 Turner McCall Blvd., will celebrate Labor Day today by feeding firefighters at the downtown station a hot lunch.

Both of the Rome Arby’s restaurants will be getting facelifts over the course of the next two months.

Strange as it may sound, not every business is developed with the idea of huge profits in mind. Sometimes they’re dreamed up by people who see a need in the community.

OTR Wheel Engineering founder Fred Taylor is planning to build a farm retreat for lease on his property off Minshew Road.

Rome City Commissioner Craig McDaniel was heavily involved in economic development efforts before he retired as president of Georgia Northwestern Technical College, operating then as Coosa Valley Technical College.

Rome redeveloper Ira Levy has once again tweaked plans for this mixed-use retail and residential development proposed for the corner of Third Avenue and Broad Street downtown.

Redmond Regional Medical Center is the recipient of a trio of awards from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association for quality stroke, heart attack and heart failure treatment. All three awards were given in recognition of adherence to Get With The Guidelines program, a hospital-based effort to ensure that hospitals offer consistent care for heart and stroke patients using the most up-to-date recommendations.

On any given Sunday, the Rome News-Tribune classified advertising section includes numerous ads for over-the-road truck drivers with their commercial driver’s license. John Smith has stepped in to help meet industry needs with his Big Rig Driving Academy in Dalton.

Leslie Pearson recently joined Toles,Temple & Wright, Inc. as a Realtor.

Roman Record is always on the lookout for local small businesses, nonprofit organizations and now, social clubs, to feature each Monday in print and online. To be placed on our schedule, just click on the appropriate form at left to download, print and complete, then send it to us either by email at RomanRecord@RN-T.com or by mail to: Roman Record, 305 E. Sixth Ave., Rome, GA 30161. A Word document version is also available by request. For a small business, choose Small Business Snapshot, for a nonprofit organization or a social club, the Highlighting Helping Hands and Romans Reach Out form does double duty.

The Georgia Department of Labor announced today that Metro Rome’s unemployment rate for July was 6.6 percent, up four-tenths of a percentage point from 6.2 percent in June. The rate in July 2015 was 7.4 percent.

Engineers at the Georgia Department of Transportation are reviewing four bids for the widening and reconstruction of Ga. 140 between Shannon and Adairsville.