Commissioner Steve Taylor will not hear a controversial application for a limestone quarry off highway 140 outside Adairsville. Commissioner Taylor was initially set to consider this item during Thursday’s scheduled hearing, however Bartow County Zoning Administrator Richard Osborne announced on Wednesday afternoon that Georgia Stone Products withdrew their application. The Bartow County Planning Commission [read more...]
On Oct 4, the Bartow County Planning Commission will hear an application for a proposed limestone quarry off Highway 140, just outside Adairsville city limits. Opponents of the application say that the mining operation could pose threats to property values, traffic safety, and a local endangered plant. The city of Adairsville is also on record [read more...]
Citizens will have the opportunity to speak their minds about a proposed limestone mining quarry just outside Adairsville city limits. An application has been submitted to the Bartow County Planning Commission requesting that this property, located at 1620 Highway 140, be rezoned to allow the building of a quarry. The city of Adairsville [read more...]
Tomorrow the free drive-up COVID-19 testing site opens in Emerson. The Georgia Department of Public Health has contracted with MAKO Medical to provide the tests. The Bartow County site is at LakePointe Sports Complex at 261 Stars Way in Emerson, and it will operate weekly on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 7 [read more...]
Updated at 4:19 p.m. on August 25. Food City Markets announced that Bartow County will be the site of one of its newest stores, which will be located at Joe Frank Harris Parkway & Mac Johnson Road NW. At a virtual press conference held on Wednesday, Steven C. Smith, Food City president and chief [read more...]
Rental assistance is up for grabs through the Georgia Rental Assistance Program, both for landlords and tenants. Last week Georgia Department of Community Affairs Deputy Commissioner of Housing Tonya Curry told WBHF that so far 89 households in Bartow County have been served by the program, which aims to bring past-due rent and utility payments [read more...]
Article edited on Aug. 4 at 3:31 p.m. to clarify that landlords are also eligible for rental assistance. On Tuesday the Biden administration announced a new ban on evictions for many renters after the moratorium expired this weekend. This was driven largely by the high levels of transmission of COVID-19 in many areas of [read more...]
Local nonprofits team up to prepare children for a return to school. The Circle of Advancement is an organization that aims to uplift at-risk and underprivileged youth in Bartow County, and it has formed a collaboration with Bartow Give a Kid a Chance to present the third annual Summer Sendoff. Circle of Advancement co-founder Silken [read more...]
Masks will be optional in Bartow County Schools this fall. On Monday, Bartow County Board of Education Superintendent Dr. Phillip Page told WBHF that mask use will not be mandated when school is back in session next month. “At this point in time, in working through our teacher and parent advisory committees, that recommendation [read more...]
Cass High School announced that Matt Thompson will be taking over as head baseball coach this fall. Thompson has deep roots in Cass, exemplified by the football stadium named after his grandfather Doug Cochran. Thompson graduated from CHS in 2005 and has served as the Colonels’ assistant coach for the past 9 years. He [read more...]
