Floyd Medical Center will host a major ethics conference Friday, March 8 to address "Healthcare and the Art of Difficult Discussions." The event will be held at Georgia Northwestern Technical College in Rome from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
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DDA okays grants for five businesses
The Rome City Commission is poised to adopt an ordinance regulating sexually oriented businesses, on the heels of an announcement by The Love Library that it's opening a branch downtown.
Lavender Mountain Hardware and Garden Store Manager LaDrake Holley and Garden Center Manager Rebecca Petracca hold up seedlings. The store on Martha Berry Highway will be giving away Sawtooth Oak and Dogwood seedlings Friday through Sunday in honor of Arbor Day. All trees will be 20 percent …
Floyd Emergency Medical Services expanded its ambulance stations in Cherokee County, Alabama, on Wednesday with the opening of a new one in the Lakeside Plaza shopping center in Cedar Bluff.
Leslie Duke has decided to bite the bullet and shut down the Duke Museum of Military History.
Monthly member meetings will be a new initiative for the Rome Floyd Chamber in 2019 and the first session is set for Thursday at 11 a.m. at the Chamber office building downtown.
River City Bank President and CEO Roger Smith recently announced the promotion of David H. Mullinax to Senior Vice President of Commercial Lending.
Shaw Industries, the largest employer in Bartow County, is growing again. Three years after opening the huge Plant T1 in Adairsville, earthwork is underway for a 500,000-square-foot addition to the plant.
Rome-Floyd Planning Commission members signed off Thursday on Hoyt Hill, an estimated $3.6 million complex of eight upscale townhouses behind City Hall.
“Innovative” and “outstanding” is how the Southeast Regional Administrator for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development described efforts to provide affordable housing in Northwest Georgia.
The Rome-Floyd County Development Authority formally agreed to a plan Monday morning to make it the lead agency for the recruitment of new industry to our area.
Plans are being circulated for a mixed-use retail and residential development dubbed River's Station along Avenue A off North Fifth Avenue.
What is the purpose of your organization/club? Cancer Navigators is a community-based nonprofit organization established in 2006 to serve as a complement to the medical expertise of cancer care providers by guiding those affected by cancer toward a better understanding of diagnosis and care …
A slew of youngsters from Rome and Floyd County performed well at the Cloverleaf District Project Achievement competition held at Georgia Highland College.
Who would have thought that a two-hour wait for dinner at the popular Linde Marie’s in Cave Spring might lead to a significant new business prospect for the city?
Georgia Power submitted a new Integrated Resource Plan to the Georgia Public Service Commission Thursday which calls for the decertification of Plant Hammond west of Rome. The utility has seen the end of Hammond coming for several years and the staff at the plant has dwindled down to just 40.
Expanding offices, renovating and moving some practices around — Harbin Clinic will be make a number of changes to its current locations and which practices reside in those locations in 2019.
Finish Line, a sport shoe apparel firm, has shut down its operations in Mount Berry mall.
River City Bank has announced today that Roger F. Smith will retire as President and Chief Executive Officer effective Feb. 28.
Sharon Baker and the Women's Information Network will be hosting a special Social Health workshop on Thursday, Feb. 7 at the Georgia Northwestern Technical College campus in Rome.
This week Janice Hadaway answers a few questions about Destiny Independence USA.
From textiles, to automotive and advanced technology
The Floyd Medical Center is undertaking projects at the Cherokee Medical Center in Centre which are expected to greatly enhance the quality of care at the hospital in Alabama. Upgrades to the Emergency Room and ER waiting room are in the works along with upgrades to imaging services.
MSP Attorneys is pleased to announce the election of Lee Niedrach as Partner at the firm as of January 1, 2019.
Downtown Rome restaurant pioneer John Schroeder may have retired from day-to-day duties at Schroeder’s New Deli, 406 Broad St., but he won’t be a stranger to staff and customers in the future.
Rome Floyd Chamber Membership Director Jeanne Krueger has been named as Interim Director. Krueger will officially assume her responsibilities from Al Hodge at the 2019 Annual Meeting on Jan. 24. Hodge, who had announced last fall that he would retire in April, has decided to step away from t…
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If getting in better shape, or simply taking better advantage of nature's bounty across Georgia, is a part of your plans for 2019, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources is presenting a series of "Club Challenges."
The Spires at Berry College recently announced updates to their staff.
Experiment station in Floyd County hosts North Georgia heifers
Construction activity will be seen in the coming weeks inside Cedartown’s North Business Park. A 90-acre site in the business park will be prepped for a large-scale relocation and expansion of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 926.
Joe Cook, Coosa River Basin Initiative’s advocacy and communication coordinator and former executive director, is stepping down from his position after nearly two decades of involvement to pursue his work with Georgia River Network.
Rome's Redevelopment Committee has agreed to move forward with an effort to create a redevelopment district in the area of the old Kmart on Hicks Drive.
The United Way Rome and Floyd County is pleased to announce that Allison Mitchell has been named the new Executive Director. Mitchell comes to Rome from Asheville, North Carolina where she served as Executive Director of the American Red Cross Serving Western North Carolina for the past 2 years.
Oglethorpe Power Corp. recently presented a check for $470,031.05 to Floyd County’s Tax Commissioner Office, bringing Oglethorpe’s total 2018 ad valorem tax payment in Floyd County to $3,221,010.98 for the organization’s 75 percent ownership in the Rocky Mountain Pumped-storage Hydroelectric Plant.
The planning process toward a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the first transatlantic flights led by John H. Towers, the Rome native who is regarded the father of Naval Aviation, in May of 1919 is underway in New York.
Hospital pricing supposedly made easier
Redmond Urgent Care, in affiliation with Redmond Regional Medical Center, celebrated the ribbon cutting and community open house on Thursday at their first location in Rome, 601 Shorter Ave. Redmond Urgent Care in West Rome is now officially open to see patients from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on week…
Rome's Gretchen Corbin is expected to continue her winning streak under a new governor.
As Rome flips the calendar from December 2018 into the New Year, business leaders are able to reflect on the completion of a long-awaited hotel project and look forward to completion of another decade-old mixed-use project downtown. A new hotel and mixed-use residential retail project are j…
The annual Polar Bear Paddle, held in early January each year from Dixon Landing on the Etowah River to Heritage Park in downtown Rome, is in limbo this year.
Blonde on Broad recently announced the addition of Shana Harrison to their salon team.
To recognize Black History Month, Chieftains Museum/Major Ridge Home will co-sponsor a workshop to help locals trace their African American roots at the Rome-Floyd County Library from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 2nd.
Lamar Wofford, owner and president, and Aspen Wofford, Vice President of Sales, of Wofford Wood Flooring answer the questions for today’s Small Business Snapshot.
The city of Rome bailed out of an arrangement with retail recruitment consultants NextSite 360 last week, with City Manager Sammy Rich explaining that the $15,000 fee could better be reinvested in some other aspect of economic development.
LakePoint has emerged from bankruptcy in what they describe as a strong financial footing and clear path to sustained and stable growth.
International Paper is once again planning a major re-investment in its Coosa linerboard mill, to the tune of up to $150 million. An inducement resolution for the project was approved by the Rome Floyd County Development Authority Tuesday.
The Blue Ridge Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Board of Directors and staff welcomed their new Executive Director, Caroline Aultman to the organization. Aultman will lead Blue Ridge AHEC’s Northwest Georgia region efforts to increase access to healthcare for rural and underserved populat…
The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis produced prototype county-by-county gross domestic product numbers last week which showed that Floyd County emerged from the recession slowly during the period of time covering 2012 through 2015. The output of local goods and services increased from $3.24…
The Rome Community Development office and city administration are honing plans for a new Citizen Ambassador Program. The project will involve a series of workshops spread out over an eight month period of time, designed to give potential leaders a more thorough understanding of how the city …