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Last year, Lori Jewell — education coordinator for the Pettit Environmental Preserve — teaches a group of students from Sam Jones Learning Center what creatures they may see during their visit. Since 2006, about 3,800 youth have visited the 70-acre forest and lake ecosystem. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News, File
Pettit Preserve expands access through membership
For those who can’t get enough of Bartow County’s nature and wildlife, The Pettit Preserve has announced a new tier-based membership program for 2013, which will make available the preserve’s trail...
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SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News A demolition crew begin leveling Friendship Missionary Baptist Church in Adairsville after the 103-year-old church suffered irreparable tornado damage.
Congregation to rebuild century-old church damaged by Jan. 30 tornado
On the day before Aldora Parks turned 100, they tore her church down. The 103-year-old Friendship Missionary Baptist Church — Parks is the church’s oldest member — was damaged in the Jan. 30 tornad...
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SPECIAL Former Bartow County Comissioner Clarence Brown holds the invite resoluution presented to him at the Georgia State Capitol in reognition of nearly 40 years service to his community and state. He is picturted with State Rep. Christian Coomer, R-Cartersville, left, wife Carol and State Rep. Paul Battles R-Cartersville.
State House recognizes Commissioner Brown
Former Bartow County Commissioner Clarence Brown stood in a place of honor Wednesday behind the Speaker’s podium before the Georgia House of Representatives in recognition of nearly 40 years in ser...
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Hynlee Dodson holds a Valentine’s Day card sent to her with Sophie’s paw print. Sophie is a golden retriever being trained to help Hynlee manage her diabetes. Hynlee is with her father, Derick, at the John W. Akin Masonic Lodge in Taylorsville, which will host a Feb. 23 BBQ Chicken Dinner Fundraiser to help raise the money needed to purchase Sophie. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News
Freemasons holding fundraiser to get girl a diabetic alert dog
Bartow County Freemasons, joined by their brothers from surrounding counties, are holding a fundraiser for diabetic 4-year-old Hynlee Dodson so she can get a diabetic alert dog. The Masons will ho...
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Glenn Hollingsworth talks to students at Cartersville Middle School on Wednesday during a Black History Month assembly. MARK ANDREWS/The Daily Tribune News
Cartersville Middle celebrates American history
While February is Black History Month, speakers at a Cartersville Middle School assembly on Wednesday wanted students to remember that black history is American history, and that today’s youth will...
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Child molestation, drug cases top criminal trial week
A child molestation case and drug cases top the trials expected to be heard in Bartow County Superior Court beginning Monday. Court will convene in the courtrooms of judges Scott Smith and Shepherd...
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Lynn Gore, right, receives tree seedlings from Georgia Master Gardeners Mary Willis and Ken Morris at the Frank Moore Administration and Judicial Center in observance of Arbor Day. Friday morning, Keep Bartow Beautiful and Bartow Master Gardeners distributed free tree seedlings at locations throughout the county. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News
Keep Bartow Beautiful receives nat'l recognition
Along with handing out 2,000 seedlings Friday in celebration of Arbor Day, the Bartow County Environmental Programs Division and Keep Bartow Beautiful announced its recognition as a recipient of th...
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Cartersville firefighters Friday afternoon extinguish a fire at a residence on Wofford Street in Cartersville. CFD Lt. Luke Young said the blaze began in the laundry room, but the cause remains under investigation. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News
Woman, 24, dies in Friday morning crash
A car crash on Old Alabama Road at 1:19 a.m. Friday resulted in one fatality and one injury, according to the Georgia State Patrol. A black Infiniti G37 was traveling west on Old Alabama Road when ...
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The following information — names
The following information — names, photos, addresses, charges and other details — was taken directly from Bartow County Sheriff’s Office jail records. Not every arrest leads to a conviction, and a ...
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Red Cross centralizes tornado relief services
All Red Cross disaster services for families impacted by the recent tornado have been centralized at the Red Cross’ Northwest Georgia Chapter, 112 John Maddox Drive N.W., Rome, which serves Bartow,...
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Most local astronomy fans are aware of the NASA Fireball camera pictured with Tellus Astronomy Program Manager David Dundee that is mounted on top of the Tellus Science Museum building. Although the camera is excellent at tracking meteorites, it will not be able to capture the 2012 DA 14 asteroid that will be closest to earth at about 2:24 p.m. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News, File
Asteroid closely passes by Earth today
An asteroid, 150 feet in diameter, will pass a distance of 17,200 miles from Earth today at 2:24 p.m., making it the closest an object of its size has ever passed our planet. It will not be visible...
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Bartow County Commissioner Steve Taylor, with his granddaughter Lili Womack on his lap, reads to Pat Boyter’s first grade class at Euharlee Elementary School. Womack is a student in the class where the commissioner was one of the community members who volunteered Thursday for the “Read with the One You Love” event at the school. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News
Euharlee Elementary shares love of reading
On Thursday, local law enforcement officials, retired educators and other members of the community volunteered to read to students at Euharlee Elementary School during the second “Read with the One...
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Justice Robert Benham, senior member of the Georgia Supreme Court and a Bartow County native, speaks Wednesday to members of Leadership Bartow. SPECIAL
State Capitol welcomes Leadership Bartow
Observing state government in action Wednesday, the 2012-2013 class of Leadership Bartow got an up-close view of state-level politics at the Georgia Capitol. From the gallery of the Georgia House o...
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Improvised explosive detonates in theater trash can
The box office bomb at Carmike Cinemas on Thursday wasn’t on the big screen. According to Bartow County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Sgt. Jonathan Rogers, a small, plastic bottle-typ...
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@White=[C] Adairsville state of emergency extended to March 6
@White=[C] With the Adairsville City Council’s approval during its Thursday night meeting, the city’s state of emergency will extend until March 6. City Manager Pat Crook said the extension would ...
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