Lifestyles

The CounterPoint Music Festival runs April 25-27 at Kingston Downs. Hiphop duo Outkast will headline the event which will feature several other bands including Foster the People, Pretty Lights, Major Lazer and Flux Pavilion. Advanced, VIP and general admission tickets are available for individual days of the festival as well as three-day passes. Visit counterpointfestival.com to purchase tickets and to see a complete list of performers.

Darlington art teacher Jennifer Moore has been selected to participate in the National Gallery of Art's Summer Teacher Institute in Washington, D.C. this summer.

Coming in Wednesday’s Young Romans, we visit Main Elementary School and spend a morning with students learning about “The Great Fire” in Amanda Mayo’s sixth-grade class and get some math tutoring from Mrs. Whitaker’s fourth-grade class.

ROME, Ga. – A Berry College student and winner of the Young Artists Competition will perform with the Rome Symphony Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. April 26 in the Rome City Auditorium.

Georgia Institute of Technology has identified Dillon Weeks of Rome as eligible to join the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. Less than 10 percent of students at Georgia Tech receive this honor each year. This premier honor society invites high-achieving first- and second-year undergraduates.

FirstBank Mortgage Partners has awarded $54,000 in scholarships to customers in Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee as part of the Next Generation Mortgage Scholarship program, including five scholarship awards in Georgia.

This article originally ran in Magnolia Magazine's Winter 2013 edition.

This article originally appeared in Magnolia Magazine's Winter 2013 edition.

As it appeared in the Fifty Years Ago column in the Wednesday, April 15, 1964, edition of the Rome News-Tribune

Wheeling around little wagon stuffed with all kinds of colored plants and herbs, Curtis Gardner of Rome walked around the annual Chieftains Herb and Plant Sale — ready to live up to his name.

Lauren Jessica Lee and William Baxter Rector were married on Nov. 28, 2013 at 4 p.m. during a beachside ceremony at the Valentin Imperial Maya Resort, Riviera Maya, Mexico.

One of the many signs that spring has returned to Rome is the new life blooming and blossoming in gardens across Rome. There are few opportunities to see this awakening of the land better than the Junior Service League’s “Rome in Bloom” garden tour which takes place May 3 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Olympic games have historically been an effective way of bringing people from all corners of the world and all walks of life together. The Earl Brackin Band, a bluegrass group from Dalton, was invited to play at the Sochi Winter Olympics, and after a pit stop in Moscow, performed at the Winter Games this past February. Now back in the U.S., the group will perform a free concert Saturday, April 12, at 7:30 p.m. at Dalton State College in Goodroe Auditorium of Gignilliat Memorial Hall.

DALTON – Hamilton Medical Center’s (HMC) annual “For Her” women’s event will combine varied aspects of health and wellness with some pampering. The event is free.

This story was originally published in Magnolia Magazine's Winter 2013 edition

How far is it from Bethlehem to Calvary? There are many answers to this question, and I am sure that some of you who have been to Jerusalem, to the Church of The Holy Sepulcher, and to Bethlehem have been thinking of that little winding road from Jerusalem to Bethlehem, and you have determined in your mind that it is about five miles. Of course that’s one answer to this question, but on the other hand it is about 30 years of obscurity in the life of Jesus.

Angie Robinson was glad to finally walk alongside her fellow advocates for sexual assault victims.

Cartersville, GA, –During the very early morning hours of Tuesday April 15, a total lunar eclipse will be visible in Georgia.

ROME, Ga. – The Berry College Theatre Company presents “Plays from Provincetown” now through April 27 in the E. H. Young Theatre.

As king of the jungle it is only right to celebrate his birthday. Kal-el turns 7 this weekend and we are having a celebration. Lion talks and party at 1 p.m. on Saturday April 12th and Sunday April 13th.

The Berry College Concert Choir and The Berry Singers will present their annual spring choral concert this Sunday, 3 p.m., at historic Berry College Chapel. The concert will feature Atlanta’s top jazz saxophone soloist, Kenyon Carter, with the choir, as well as premiers by Stan Pethel and Joseph Baber. The concert is conducted by Harry Musselwhite, Senior Lecturer in Music and Director of Choral Activities and features at the piano and organ Steven Wooddell.

ROME, Ga. – The Berry College Fine Arts Department presents the Berry College Symphony Orchestra’s spring concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 14 at Ford Auditorium.

The sounds of pipes, drums and the British Isles will fill The Forum on Saturday as “Across the Big Pond” returns to downtown Rome for the fourteenth year.

Rome residents will have the chance to hear and see some of the best step teams in the South as they compete in Stomp Battle 2014.