December 21, 2023 Georgia Labor Commissioner Bruce Thompson announced today that Georgia's November unemployment rate was 3.4 percent, unchanged from a revised 3.4 percent for the third consecutive month. The unemployment rate was three-tenths lower than the national unemployment rate. “This holiday season, the greatest gift we can give Georgians is a future [read more...]
A Floyd County man involved in a custody dispute threatens to jump from a Bartow bridge. Law enforcement officers were dispatched to an area of Joe Frank Harris Parkway Wednesday, December 13th, just before 9 p.m. for a welfare check. According to the report, while driving on Highway 41 over the Cloverleaf Bridge, the officer [read more...]
According to a press release, Governor Brian P. Kemp announced five appointments to Superior Courts across the state, including Jephson Bendinger to the Coweta County Judicial Circuit vacancy created by HB 243, Joseph Dent to the Dougherty Judicial Circuit vacancy created by HB 77, Alice Benton to the Atlanta Judicial Circuit created by the retirement of [read more...]
CARTERSVILLE, Ga. – The Allatoona Lake Operations Project Management Office will begin accepting unwanted, live Christmas trees for recycling from Dec. 26, 2023 until Jan. 3, 2024, at six drop-off sites around the lake. Artificial trees will not be accepted. Drop-off locations are: 1. Allatoona Operations Project Management Office 2. Victoria Day-Use Parking Area 3. [read more...]
A woman charged with murder receives a 30-year sentence. 30-year-old Cheyenne Denise Snopek of Cartersville was arrested on New Year’s Day 2023. While in the jail, she reportedly gave a female inmate heroin to hold. The woman ingested the drug, which was actually fentanyl. Tiffany Gail Kimbrell later died. Snopek received a 30-year sentence with [read more...]
December 11, 2023 The Cartersville School Board met in regular session on Monday, December 11, 2023. The host for the meeting was Cartersville High School. Stellar Performers The Matthew Hill-Michael Dean HEARTS Employee of the Month for December (School Nutrition) is Isabel Salvidar Hernandez. Isabel is very hardworking, dedicated, goes above and beyond what is [read more...]
Thursday, December 7, 2023 Press Release Office of Public Affairs A Cartersville motel manager was sentenced to 57 months in prison for trafficking a victim with respect to peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude or forced labor and ordered to pay $42,648 in restitution to seven individuals. According to court documents, Shreesh Tiwari, 71, an Indian national [read more...]
12/6/2023 – At approximately 3:22 a.m. Bartow County Fire & Emergency Services were dispatched to 867 Euharlee Five Forks Road SW, Kingston, to a report of a residential structure fire. The caller said the house was on fire and everyone had evacuated. BCFES crews arrived on scene to find a single-family home with heavy fire [read more...]
Speed and alcohol may have played a role in a one-vehicle accident that occurred earlier this week. According to Georgia State Patrol reports, the accident occurred Monday at 4:12 p.m. on Milam Bridge Road. The report states that a 2000 Ducati Monster motorcycle driven by 50-year-old Frank Fernando Henson of Milam Bridge Road traveled too [read more...]
BARTOW COUNTY, Ga. (December 1, 2023) – August 30, 2018, is not a day many people vividly remember, but Cami Abernathy sure does. “My son, Carter, was just three years old at the time,” said Abernathy, a first-grade teacher at White Elementary School. “He was sick with a respiratory illness and then his left arm [read more...]
