May starts on Monday and with the new month a full 31 days of library activities begin. The library system has an ongoing story walk that only has a few days left. This rendition of the story walks features “Moth & Butterfly- Ta Da” by Dev Petty and illustrated by Ana Aranda and published by [read more...]
It was recently announced that Bartow County has been awarded six grants from the federal government to improve transportation under the Bipartisan infrastructure law, according to an article published in the Rome News-Tribune. In total Bartow County will be granted 18.7 million dollars for six different projects around the county. The single largest grant is [read more...]
The Cartersville City Council approved four purchases and a final change order for the total amount of $559,485.53 during their most recent meeting. The final change order that was approved for the council was for a replacement for a volt switchgear for pumps at the water treatment plant. This purchase was approved back and 2021 [read more...]
The Bartow County School System announced recently announced that Cass High School has been nationally recognized for raising student achievement. Cass High has now become the 15th school in the Bartow County School system to be recognized as a Model Professional Learning community. The CHS principal Steve Revard is quoted in the school systems announcement [read more...]
Following the called Euharlee City Council business meeting held on Tuesday evening, there was a regularly scheduled work session where the council heard the first reading of an amendment to the floodplain management ordinance. It was stated that this updated ordinance was coming before the city council because a citizen had raised concern with the [read more...]
The council meeting will begin at 7 p.m. where there will be the first reading of an amendment to the city’s alcohol ordinance and the second reading of updates to the parks and recreation ordinance. In addition to these two ordinances the city council will have the first reading of attendance ordinances for all of [read more...]
What follows is a preliminary report provided to WBHF by the Georgia State Patrol in regard to an accident on North Felton Road. On April 17, Troopers responded to a vehicle versus bicycle crash in Bartow County. The investigation determined a GMC Yukon was traveling northbound on GA 3 at its intersection with E. Felton [read more...]
Georgia Power is seeking to raise rates for its customers again according to an article published in the Atlanta constitution journal. The article states that Georgia power and the Georgia power public service commission staff came to a tentative agreement to drastically raise rates for customers as soon as June 1st. The stated reason for [read more...]
The Adairsville City Council voted to approve a text amendment that would allow residential housing on the second story of commercial buildings, however they failed to make a motion for an application seeking to apply the newly approved amendment. This application was for a property at 5563 Joe Frank Harris Park Way, which proposed three [read more...]
The Euharlee City Council voted to approve the minimum acres needed for a lot to tie into the city's sewer system during their meeting held on Tuesday night. This approved change will move the minimum size needed only for the R-1 zoning from 15,000 square feet to 10,000 square feet. It was stated that there [read more...]
