Author Craig Johnson visits the Booth Western Art Museum tomorrow for a conversation and book signing. Johnson writes the New York Times bestselling Longmire mystery series, which inspired the Netflix show. He signs books from 5 to 5:30 p.m. and again after his talk, which begins at 5:30 in the Miller/Rhoden Ballroom. Guests can buy [read more...]
Bartow County deputies and Georgia Department of Natural Resources rangers booked several people into the county jail over the weekend and into Monday on a range of charges. On November 7th, deputies arrested 64-year-old Loyal Lee Miller at his Young Road residence on warrants issued November 4th. Authorities charged him with criminal trespass, [read more...]
The Cartersville-Bartow Metropolitan Planning Organization’s newly approved Fiscal Year 2027-2030 Transportation Improvement Program directs more than $92 million toward road, bridge, sidewalk, and transit projects across Bartow County. The largest single project widens Douthit Ferry Road from Old Alabama Road to State Route 113. It replaces the bridge over the Etowah River. Utility work and [read more...]
Cartersville’s competition cheerleading team captured its eighth consecutive region title Saturday, winning both the Region 7-5A championship and the Georgia Sectional at Allatoona High School. Woodland finished as region runner-up and placed tenth in the sectional. Cass took seventh in the region. Both Cartersville and Woodland advance to the Class 5A State Championships this Friday [read more...]
The Emerson City Council has denied a rezoning request for a small commercial property on State Route 293. At Monday night’s regular meeting, the council held a second reading of the request for 0.32 acres at 647 State Route 293. Property owner Mayinampati Rathnam sought to rezone the land so vehicles could be repaired there. [read more...]
During a joint Technical Coordinating Committee and Policy Committee meeting on November 4th, the Cartersville-Bartow Metropolitan Planning Organization approved its final Fiscal Year 2027-2030 Transportation Improvement Program. It also advanced a draft calendar-year 2027 Unified Planning Work Program for public review. Transportation Planner Shanice Amos presented the final TIP after a 30-day public comment period [read more...]
Floyd County Sheriff’s Office deputies booked an Adairsville man into their jail on Saturday after they said he stalked a woman, broke into her home, and attacked her in front of her children. 37-year-old Malcolm Jarrard Thompson faces multiple charges stemming from the incident at a residence on Alpine Court. According to Coosa Valley News, [read more...]
Local high school football teams wrapped up the regular season last Friday and now turn to the GHSA State Football Playoffs. Cartersville completed an undefeated regular season Friday night, routing Woodland 69-6. The Canes led 55-0 at halftime and finished 10-0. Kaiden Kent caught two touchdown passes from Brayden Doss, and four Cartersville quarterbacks each [read more...]
Cartersville Police booked 24-year-old Larry Antonio Askew Junior of Cartersville into the Bartow County Jail on November 3rd on charges of felony possession of more than one ounce of marijuana and felony probation violation. Askew also faced six warrants issued October 28th for grooming of a minor for a sexual offense, felony statutory [read more...]
A Georgia appeals court has upheld Bartow County’s approval of a conditional use permit for a waste processing facility next to a planned townhome development on Guyton Industrial Drive and Peeples Valley Road. On November 2nd, the Court of Appeals of Georgia affirmed a lower court’s decision that allowed Justin Rice and Rice Commercial Investments [read more...]
