Cartersville Police arrested a man after he struck a car and a house with a dump truck and fled on foot. At around 8:30 Sunday night, a dump truck hit four mailboxes and a gray Toyota Camry on Douglas Street between Howard Street and McEver Street, a mailbox on the southwest corner of North Gilmer [read more...]
83-year-old Carl Lewis Tidwell of Cartersville turned himself into the Bartow County Jail on Monday morning for homicide by vehicle in the second degree, driving on the wrong side of the roadway, following too closely, and not using a safety belt in a passenger vehicle. On the morning of September 6th, Tidwell's white GMC Sierra [read more...]
The School of Humanities at Georgia Highlands College (GHC) announces that registration is now open for the seventh annual Highlands Writers Conference. The event, held on the college’s Cartersville campus each spring, allows students and local writers to meet with and attend workshops given by professional writers. This year’s event will be held Saturday, March [read more...]
BARTOW COUNTY, Ga. (February 13, 2024) – Seventeen Bartow County School System students advance in the highly competitive and prestigious Georgia Governor’s Honors Program – the highest number ever recorded in BCSS history. The semifinalists include Adairsville High School juniors Lilith Affolder (Agriculture), Gabriel Greenway (Engineering: Mechanical & Electrical), Skyla Rowland (Visual Arts), and Braden [read more...]
A motorcyclist who died in a collision with a school bus last week was fleeing law enforcement. On January 29th, at around four p.m., two Bartow County deputies patrolled Clubview Drive at Country Club Drive in Cartersville. They observed a sports bike traveling south on Clubview Drive, with 26-year-old Demario Calhoun of Canton standing on [read more...]
According to Coosa Valley News Elian Carlos Saucedo, 17, of Cartersville, was arrested this week after reports said he led police on a high-speed chase on Ga 1, East 2nd Avenue, and again on GA 20. Police said that they attempted to stop Saucedo for speeding when he fled away at rate rates of speed. [read more...]
Bartow County Coroner Joel Guyton confirmed that 26-year-old Demario Calhoun of Canton died in an accident between his motorcycle and a Bartow County school bus carrying five high school students on Monday afternoon. According to crash debris and witness statements, at around 4:14, a Kawasaki Ninja and the bus were traveling east on Gilreath Road [read more...]
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger presented an “Eagle Award for Election Excellence” to Bartow County Elections at their office on Joe Frank Harris Parkway and Oak Hill Circle near Cartersville this morning. Election Supervisor Joseph Kirk accepted the award on behalf of his office. We’ll have more on this story during our local newscasts [read more...]
IRS Free File is now available for the 2024 filing season. With this program, eligible taxpayers can prepare and file their federal tax returns using free tax software from trusted IRS Free File partners. Who's eligible for IRS Free File Each IRS Free File provider sets its own eligibility rules based on age, income and [read more...]
One home received extensive damage, while another was destroyed by fire. According to a press release from Bartow Fire and Emergency Services, crews were called out just before 10 Sunday morning for a fire at 6902 Pawnee Trail, Acworth. Bartow Fire and Emergency Service crews arrived on scene to find a one-story wood frame structure [read more...]
