The director of the city's parks and recreation department Tod Gilliam had his resignation approved by the city council. This resignation will go into immediate effect with James Gordy serving as the interim director. The city has been in the works of selling the old police building which is located at 178 West Main Street [read more...]
Bartow County held their 2023 budget hearing Wednesday morning and presented budget for the county that falls just shy of 200 million dollars. The majority of this budget, around 45%, is going to public safety. The budget for this year is up 21% from last year, however Peter Olsen, the county administrator, stated that the [read more...]
The Cartersville City Council will meet today to discuss a contract for the old police station at 178 West Main Street, along with taking on some engineering projects. Back in October 2021 the City of Cartersville released an RFP for the property. Afterwards the city received two proposals one from McWhorter Capital Partners and Womack [read more...]
One agenda item that was heard during the Euharlee Planning and Zoning Commission was potential updates to the city's alcohol ordinances. At first it appeared that this discussion was going to be centered around the fact that the last time that the ordinance was updated was in 2010. However, during the public comments portion of [read more...]
The application for the truck stop had been approved once before and it was first proposed back in 2019, but as the applicant stated there were issues caused by the pandemic that slowed work. As a result, the permit had expired, and the applicant had to represent the case to the unified zoning board and [read more...]
During the Bartow Board of Education monthly meeting a handful of purchases were made for the various schools in the district. In total there were eight items that on the consent agenda for the school board, which was approved unanimously. The total amount for all eight of those approved purchases was $1,265,772.72 with funding coming [read more...]
The first Aubrey Corporation open house held on Tuesday afternoon turned into a two-hour long question and answer session where concerned citizens inquired about every aspect imaginable in regard to this proposed concept plan. Questions ranged from conserving endangered species to how one would go about purchasing the land themselves. So many people showed up [read more...]
A Facebook post made on Monday morning stated that there was an ambulance at Woodland Middle School, and in the comments portion of this post it was alleged that a student had stabbed another student. We received the following statement from the Bartow County school system after requesting information on this incident.: In a concerted [read more...]
The Capitol Beat News Service first reported in an article published online on Thursday that an effort that could lead to the elimination of runoff elections in Georgia has surfaced in the general assembly. The State Representative from Dallas GA, Joseph Gullett, introduced a bill to the house that would allow Georgia cities to experiment [read more...]
A proposed project from the library may have been forgotten since the last time it was brought up a couple of months ago. This project was the Cartersville Library adding an outdoor stage on the property so that they could host outdoor events. The last time that this item went before any type of board [read more...]
