![[VIDEO] Vice Presidential Nominee, Senator JD Vance, visits Lindale for campaign event](https://cdn.socast.io/9065/sites/4/2024/10/04181330/featured-JD-vance-lindale.jpg#aqua_resizer_image_not_local)
October 4th, 2024 – 6:00 PM Ethan Garrett – WRGA Digital News Editor & Video Reporter – Friday afternoon a large crowd gathered at the Mill in Lindale to hear Vice Presidential nominee, Senator JD Vance, deliver remarks for a campaign event. During his speech, Senator Vance spoke about a range of topics, including the…… Continue Reading
October 4th, 2024 – 4:50 PM City of Rome Press Release – The City of Rome’s pump station, which supplies water to the Mt. Alto tank, has experienced a critical failure in both its primary and secondary pumps. This failure is impacting the delivery of drinking water to approximately 170 households in the area, resulting…… Continue Reading
Friday, October 4, 2024–11:30 a.m. -News Release- The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) announced yesterday that Rome Sports has been selected to host the DIII Men’s & Women’s Tennis Championships for the 2027- 2028 season. The championship will take place at the Rome Tennis Center at Berry College, May 22-30, 2028. “Over the past decade,…… Continue Reading
Friday, October 4, 2024–11:19 a.m. -Floyd County Jail records- Two East Rome residents have been arrested on felony warrants charging them with identity fraud. According to the warrants: 27-year-old Avon Trey Grissom and 24-year-old Samantha Kayleen Dowdy used a woman’s EBT card at several locations in Floyd County between August 16 and August 20. The…… Continue Reading
![[VIDEO] 2024 Coosa Valley Fair here through Saturday](https://cdn.socast.io/9065/sites/4/2024/10/03150338/featured-CVF-2024.jpg#aqua_resizer_image_not_local)
Ocotober 3rd, 2024 – 3:00 PM Ethan Garrett – Digital News Editor & Video Reporter – For 75 years, the Coosa Valley Fair has signaled the start of fall for Northwest Georgia and Northeast Alabama residents. Known as “fall’s finest festival,” the fair has been proudly sponsored by the Exchange Club of Rome since its…… Continue Reading
Thursday, October 3, 2024–12:30 p.m. -Staff reports- We have this traffic alert for anyone who will be driving in the Lindale area on Friday. Vice-presidential nominee JD Vance will be at the Lindale Mill for a campaign event at 1 p.m. Motorists can expect heavy traffic and delays in Lindale and on surface roads leading…… Continue Reading
Thursday, October 3, 2024–12:15 p.m. -News Release- Floyd County Schools (FCS) is proud to announce that Stacy Thompson, a dedicated 7th Grade Science teacher at Pepperell Middle School, has been named the District Teacher of the Year (TOTY). Additionally, Tim Reynolds, a committed Special Education Paraprofessional at Model Middle School, has been honored as the…… Continue Reading
Thursday, October 3, 2024–12:15 p.m. -Staff reports- If you want to enter this year’s Rome Christmas Parade, you can register starting on October 15. The deadline to enter will be November 1. Late entries will not be accepted this year. Registration will take place online at www.romechristmasparade.com. The theme for this year’s parade, which will…… Continue Reading
Thursday, October 3, 2024–12:10 p.m. -Floyd County Jail records- Report: Man bit police officer A Cedar Bluff, Alabama man is accused of biting a Cave Spring Police Officer. According to Floyd County Jail records: 39-year-old John Edwin Terry Jr. was pounding on the side of a parked camper trailer on Gadsden Road. Terry got belligerent…… Continue Reading
Thursday, October 3, 2024–12:02 p.m. -David Crowder, WRGA News- The Rome Water and Sewer Committee got their first look at the 2025 capital budget requests on Thursday. The requests include equipment and projects, totaling just over $73 million. According to Rome City Manager Sammy Rich that sounds like a lot of money, but in the…… Continue Reading