In the GHSA Cheerleading State Championships at the Macon Coliseum this past weekend, Cartersville won the Class 4A competition to secure the team’s fourth championship and first since 2018. The Lady Canes beat Cambridge, Union Grove, and Harris County in the final standings. Cartersville previously won titles in 1994, 2000, 2014, and 2018.
Cartersville Police arrested 32-year-old Eric Lavon Cole Junior of Cartersville and 35-year-old Tyberius Leshawn Morris of Carrollton after a wild sequence of events that led to damage to a restaurant and two tazings early Thursday morning. Police learned of a suspect doing narcotics in Texaco in the Cartersville Village Shopping Center off South [read more...]
The American Legion Carl Boyd Post 42 in Cartersville hosted its annual Veterans Day ceremony on Monday morning. The guest speaker was retired U.S. Army Major and psychologist Dr. Bob Poston, who served 19 years in the Army beginning in 1959. He served two combat tours in Vietnam and earned two Bronze Stars and the [read more...]
Bartow County deputies responded to a shots fired call at a townhome on Point Place Drive near Cartersville at 1:36 Thursday morning. Once on scene, the complainant said he was in his residence when he heard gunfire. He said he heard 6-8 shots. He said he waited a few minutes, then walked outside, saw shell [read more...]
The Cobb County Police Department's Selective Traffic Enforcement Program, or S.T.E.P. Unit, is assisting Acworth Police in investigating a motorcycle collision that killed a Bartow County man on Cobb Parkway near Lake Acworth Drive at around 2:42 Monday afternoon. Preliminary information indicates 25-year-old Reno Gage Bilaki of White was traveling south on a Kawasaki motorcycle [read more...]
The American Legion Carl Boyd Post 42 on Martin Luther King Junior Drive and Roosevelt Street in Cartersville will send a relief truck to North Carolina to support the victims of Hurricane Helene. They will give all donations to the locals on the ground who have been on site since the beginning. They have met [read more...]
Aside from the schools, we also know that The Etowah Foundation in Bartow County and Bartow Family Resources are closed Thursday and Friday.
A traffic accident in Bartow County last week killed 27-year-old Arthur Brandon Rutledge of Rome. The Georgia State Patrol states that Rutledge was driving a 2023 Indian Scout motorcycle east on Highway 411 on September 10th when an unidentified vehicle traveling north on Burnt Hickory Road ran a stop sign. A vehicle in front of [read more...]
Men Opposing Sex Trafficking (MOST) will make a second attempt to break the world record for “longest marathon softball game” Tuesday through Sunday at Dellinger Park in Cartersville. The game will begin at 8 a.m. Tuesday and conclude at 9 a.m. Sunday, which would set the new record at 121 hours. To be certified by the Guinness Book [read more...]
A short police chase in downtown Cartersville Saturday night caused damage, and some areas were literally in the dark. At 9:17, a silver Nissan Titan failed to stop for a DUI road check and accelerated at a high rate of speed, traveling east on W Cherokee Avenue. Troopers activated their emergency equipment to get the [read more...]
