While many associate Saint Patrick’s Day with revelry and drinking Irish beer, the day was mostly a religious celebration until about 40 years ago, when Irish-Americans and non-Irish alike began to see the day to celebrate all things Irish.
Weather permitting, crews will shut down a portion of State Route 1/Martha Berry Highway beginning Monday. The right northbound lane will be closed for less than a quarter-mile near the Walgreens. The work will close the lane all week from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. The closure is part of the project to improve State Route 1/Turner McCall Boulevard from the Oostanaula River to the intersection with North 2nd Avenue.
WHEN: From Monday, March 18 until Friday, March 22 from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. each day
WHERE: The right northbound bound lane of SR 1 will be closed near the Walgreens
Approximately 6.5 million people age 40 and older in the United States have peripheral artery disease (PAD), according to the Center for Disease Control. In the Rome/Floyd County community and the surrounding areas, the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, impact the likelihood of the population experiencing PAD and other vascular diseases — a reason Harbin Clinic has invested in the latest technology and practices available in the field of peripheral vascular health.
A caring nurse at Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center made an impression on a family, not only for the care she provided a patient after surgery but also for making sure family members were taken care of while they were visiting their loved one.
Spring arrives on Tuesday of this week, according to astronomers. Traditionally, the first day of spring was celebrated on March 21st.
Walaa Khateeb-Jabara, a student at Georgia Highlands College (GHC) and member of the Alpha Psi Omicron chapter of the Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) honors society, has been named a 2024 Coca-Cola Academic Team Bronze Scholar and will receive a $1,000 scholarship.
A fifty-two-year-old Rome man is accused of posing as an attorney, and taking money from a nursing home resident.
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Saturday, March 16, 2024:
The Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office was called to the Waffle House in Summerville shortly after 1 AM about an incident of theft on March 10th. According to Waffle House employees, a group of teens and an adult skipped out on a $53.50 bill, leaving the restaurant without paying. One of the teens had filled out an employment application with a Rose Circle address. The responding deputy went to the address but was unable to locate anyone. The application had two phone numbers which proved to be unworkable numbers. Waffle House employees said that the store manager might want to press charges in relation to the theft.
A Chattooga County Deputy responded to a call about social media bullying and blackmail. According to the report from the sheriff’s office, a Chattooga County man told the deputy that his son had befriended, what he thought was a girl his age, on Snapchat. It turns out, that the person was not who they claimed to be and began to threaten the man’s son saying if he did not pay $300, explicit videos would be posted. The complainant had told his son to block the person on social media, which the child had done. The deputy advised that a report would be made about the blackmail attempt.