Atlanta (Feb. 12, 2025) – Cigna Healthcare has selected Piedmont as a recipient of its 2024 gold level Healthy Workforce Designation for demonstrating a strong commitment to improving the health and vitality of its employees through a workplace well-being program. The Cigna Healthy Workforce Designation evaluates organizations based on the core components of their well-being [read more...]
ATLANTA (Feb. 10, 2025) – Georgia Lottery players took home big wins this week from Diggi Games. Here’s a look at the latest winners, who all played on the Georgia Lottery mobile app: A player in Ringgold won $20,000 playing Riches of the Runes on Feb. 6. A Stone Mountain resident won $20,000 playing Lucky [read more...]
A Florida man is jailed in Bartow on numerous counts of forgery of a financial card. Just before noon Tuesday, Cartersville police officers were called to the Ingles Gas Station on West Avenue. According to the report, 36-year-old, Jorge Antonio Fernandez Reyes of Miami, Florida was sitting in his Ram Truck at the fuel pump [read more...]
Bartow County Commissioner Steve Taylor will conduct a public hearing at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, February 11, 2025 to discuss the County’s proposed operating budget for Fiscal Year 2025. The hearing will be held in the Commissioner’s Conference/Hearing Room in the Frank Moore Administration Building located at 135 W. Cherokee Avenue, Cartersville, Georgia. The proposed [read more...]
Issue Number: Tax Tip 2025-13 File for free with IRS Free File IRS Free File lets qualified taxpayers get free tax preparation, free electronic filing and free direct deposit of their federal tax refund, if they’re owed one, using guided tax preparation software. Those who don’t qualify can still use Free Fillable Forms. The IRS Free [read more...]
Cartersville, GA (February 3, 2025) In honor of Black History Month, Blood Assurance is calling on African American donors to help meet a life-saving need, especially for individuals battling sickle cell disease. Sickle cell disease, which disproportionately affects African Americans, often requires frequent blood transfusions. The best matches for these patients come from donors of [read more...]
SOCIAL CIRCLE, Ga. (January 23, 2025) – The Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ (DNR) Wildlife Resources Division (WRD) has confirmed through the United States Department of Agriculture’s National Veterinary Services Laboratories that a hunter-harvested deer sampled for routine surveillance in Lanier County has tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). This is the first case [read more...]
Bartow County Fire & Emergency Services Responds 1/24/2025 – At approximately 6:44 p.m. Bartow County Fire & Emergency Services were dispatched to 27 Etowah Lane S.W., Cartersville to a report of a residential structure fire. The caller advised that the house was on fire. BCFES crews arrived on scene to find a two-story single-family home [read more...]
ATLANTA – The Georgia House of Representatives’ Committee on Assignments named State Representative Mitchell Scoggins (R-Cartersville) as the Chairman of the House Special Rules Committee. “I’m honored and humbled to serve as Chairman of the Special Rules Committee,” said Rep. Scoggins. “Thank you, Speaker Burns.” The House Committee on Assignments, chaired by House [read more...]
NEWS RELEASE ON HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION FROM BARTOW COUNTY TAX COMMISSIONER, STEVE STEWART DEADLINE TO FILE: APRIL 1, 2025 All new homeowners are eligible to apply for Homestead Exemption if you own and occupy your home on January 1. You cannot receive homestead exemption on any other home you own. If you purchased a new home [read more...]
