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Avonlea Highlands encourages community to 'Go Red for Lynette' Friday
In honor of Go Red For Women's National Wear Red Day, Avonlea Highlands apartment community is preparing to spread awareness about how to lessen women's risks for heart disease as well as seeking f...
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Bartow Blotter 2-2
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 ...
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Jeff Lewis at last week’s Cartersville-Bartow County Chamber of Commerce’s annual meeting. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News
Jeff Lewis in running for GDOT board
After serving Bartow County residents for 16 years, Jeff Lewis now looks to serve in a new capacity as a board member for the Georgia Department of Transportation. Elected by legislators from their...
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Woman takes estranged husband's phone as child support collateral
A Cartersville man allegedly was attacked when he took his daughter home after a visitation on Monday. The victim told a Bartow County deputy that he and his estranged wife, Tara Flory, got into a...
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Police escort man out of heated Euharlee meeting
Tuesday night's Euharlee City Council meeting was a mixed bag of emotions from tears and shouting to the removal of an audience member. The night began with the approval of a resolution to rename ...
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Farmer awarded Eagle Scout rank
Thomas Farmer III was awarded the Boy Scouts of America's highest award, Eagle Scout. On Oct. 17, 2010, at Trinity United Methodist Church in Cartersville, a National Eagle Scout Court of Honor was...
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Heather Warren Cape — pictured with her husband, Jonathan, and their daughter, Evalyn Rose — is awaiting a bone marrow transplant. On Friday, her family learned a match had been found and the specimen will be tested by Emory University Hospital. SPECIAL
Bone marrow match located for new mother
After more than a year full of highs and lows, Kim Reid was overjoyed Friday that a bone marrow match had been located for her daughter, Heather Warren Cape. Her daughter's health condition was fir...
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Kingston mayor removes city clerk
Special called meeting scheduled for Thursday An ongoing battle between Kingston Mayor Dexter Jones and City Clerk Michele Jones, no relation, came to a head Monday with the removal from office of...
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Man's house broken into as he visits wife in hospital
A pistol was stolen from a Cartersville home over the weekend in an apparent robbery. Cartersville police responded to a burglary call on Hill Top Drive on Sunday. The homeowner told the officer th...
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Cartersville City Manager Sam Grove, left, presenting a PowerPoint show on the “State of the City” at the 2011 Visioning Session. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News
Visioning Session reveals city doing better than most
Cartersville Mayor Matt Santini said it is rare for a city council, city manager and department heads to gather in one room to have an honest and difficult discussion about what's best for the city...
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Bowman 'invaluable' resource for 4-H youth, agriculture community
Even though Bartow County Extension Agent Greg Bowman will be joining Gordon County's office Tuesday, his knowledge will continue to impact those he touched for years to come. For Bartow County Mas...
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Intervention Cardiologist Maxwell Prempeh, M.D., views a coronary angiogram in the Heart Cath lab. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News
CMC adds life-saving cardiac services
A common theme resonates with the announcement of Cartersville Medical Center's first interventional cardiac procedure in a new cardiac cath lab: Time is muscle. The phrase is repeated by doctors, ...
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Bartow Blotter 1-30
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 ...
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Seventeen arrested during warrant service
Seventeen people were arrested Thursday during an operation conducted by various law enforcement facilities. Arrests were made on outstanding warrants for drug charges, aggravated assault, probatio...
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February kicks off Severe Weather Awareness Week
There may be only two staff members in the office of Bartow County Emergency Management Agency, but don't be alarmed. "If something happens, all of Bartow County comes together," said EMA director...
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