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Cartersville High School senior Destinee Farmer said she’s interested in reading “What My Mother Doesn’t Know” by Sonya Sones, a young adult novel challenged to be banned. MARK ANDREWS/The Daily Tribune News
Schools celebrate 'freedom to read'
School libraries across the country this week are celebrating students' "freedom to read" by promoting books in their collections that have been considered controversial in the past and present dur...
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Target store employee volunteers Craig Shields and Elyse Young plant a rose bush behind the Li’l Rob Taylor Memorial Ball Field in Euharlee’s Osborne Park at Saturday’s Covered Bridge City Cleanup Day. More than 100 volunteers worked, the vast majority from Target. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News
Covered Bridge City Cleanup
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Arson suspected in vacant house fire
Bartow County Fire Department has ruled a fire at an uninhabited Baker Road residence the result of arson. According to a Bartow County Sheriff's Office report, BCFD Battalion Chief Bryan Cox said ...
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Historical walking tours set for area cemeteries
With two cemetery tours scheduled in October, the lives of more than 20 of Bartow County's departed residents will be brought to the forefront. On Saturday, the eighth annual "An Evening in Oak Hil...
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Adairsville readies for 43rd Great Locomotive Chase Festival weekend
For Adairsville, the Great Locomotive Chase Festival is an annual tradition bringing thousands of visitors to the city's historic downtown but for locals, it's an opportunity for reunion and commun...
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Emerson water use improving
For a city fighting an aging infrastructure, a bit of good news came out of Monday's Emerson City Council meeting: water conservation is improving. The council approved an updated water conservatio...
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Anne Murphy, RN, with Northwest Ga. Public Health, administers a flu shot to Don Hassebrock recently at the Cartersville Civic Center where the Bartow County Health Department conducted a flu shot clinic. Soon the Bartow County Health Department will be offering, at no cost, both regular flu shots and Flumist nasal spray to school-aged children. Parents will soon learn more about this opportunity through their school system. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News
It's Flu and Flu Shot Season
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Caroline Wright serves herself a dish of frozen yogurt while her birthday wishers look on. Wright was celebrating her ninth birthday with friends at the recently opened The Sweet Spot located on West Main Street in Cartersville. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News
Cartersville finds its Sweet Spot
Returning to his roots and joining a culinary trend, Kasey Carpenter owns and operates The Sweet Spot in Cartersville, the city's first shop diving into a frozen treat sweeping the nation. The Swee...
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Rick and Carol Young in their historical attire teach visitors how to dance the Virginia Reel at Saturday’s “Harvest Time at the Homestead” at Red Top Mountain State Park. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News
Harvest Time at the Homestead
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Don Cornett demonstrates how a wooden spoke is driven into a mortise by one of the rare antique machines he utilizes to produce wheels. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News
Cartersville wheelwright perfects craft using 100-year-old machinery
Locally, Don Cornett is known as a neighbor, husband, father and grandfather, but in the wheelwright world he is "a one-in-a-million" craftsman, internationally recognized for his self-sufficient w...
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Janet Cochran, regional tourism representative, shared ideas Thursday on inexpensive travel in northwest Georgia with guests at the Cartersville Public Library. MATT SHINALL/The Daily Tribune News
Focus on 'Ways to Save' brings inexpensive Georgia travel to library
From Native American history and Civil War battlefields to high-flying adventure and fine dining, local library patrons got a taste Thursday of northwest Georgia offerings. Janet Cochran, regional...
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Kennesaw State University senior Amanda Rucker works to restore the sunken garden section of In the Valley, located in Rydal. JOHN DeFOOR/The Daily Tribune News
Kennesaw State University works to preserve In the Valley
Kennesaw State University faculty, staff, students and alumni gathered together Saturday morning at In the Valley, Rydal, in an ongoing effort to preserve the historical site and its lush vegetatio...
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Johnny and Jill Mitchell’s Euharlee restaurant, Johnny Mitchell’s Smokehouse, has won the People’s Choice Award for the past three years. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News
BARTOW BIO — Recipe for success: Owners of Johnny Mitchell's Smokehouse discuss third People's Choice Award
Over a glass of champagne, Johnny and Jill Mitchell smile. It has been a week worth celebrating. On Sept. 19, Johnny Mitchell's Smokehouse was named Best Restaurant for the third consecutive year i...
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Cheryl Barnes holds her 2-year-old daughter Sadie at the Bartow County Navigator Team’s meet-and-greet Sept. 8. Barnes is a Babies Can’t Wait representative whose 5-year-old daughter, Summer, has spina bifida. SPECIAL
Bartow County Navigator Team provides support to special needs families
Through the Bartow County Navigator Team, families of children with special needs are finding a network of support. Referring to its numerous benefits, Team Leader Wendy Allen said some of the grou...
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Kingston Elementary Media Specialist Lori Pilgrim uses a Promethean Board to conduct an interactive lesson with a fourth grade class in the school’s library. Pilgrim received the GaDOE Education Exceptional Library Media Award and was recognized recently by the Bartow County Board of Education. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News
Kingston Elementary receives state library award
Kingston Elementary School last week received an Exceptional Library Media Program Award, honoring the school's ability to provide a fun and educational library for students. "[The Exemplary Librar...
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