Your Two Cents: Nearly a half-billion dollars in special taxes OK'd by Rome, Floyd voters since 1999. Berry recruit dies at High Falls. Which couple leads dance challenge fund-raising. 90-degree heat this week.

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Your Two Cents: Since 1999, Rome/Floyd voters have approved $483 million in 'special' and education taxes; that would top a half-billion dollars if either proposed extension OK'd. Your Two Cents 

2017 Berry College football recruit dies in accident at High Falls in Northeast Alabama. Vikings

Buzz: The leaderboard for the Rome Celebrity Dance Challenge couples through July 7. What's beneath Cartersville Medical Center project.  Buzz

Politics:  Rome attorney Emily Matson announces candidacy for open superior court seat in 2018. Matson

Whole lot of shaking going on in recent days in Georgia, Tennessee. Quakes

Ware Mechanical Weather Center: Highs of 90 through Wednesday with rain chances rising by midweek. Weather

Remembering Mr. William Austin 'Billy' Cromer, Ms. Lurlene Lowe, Mr. Clarence Edward 'Ed' Martin, Hilda Spiers Pachuta. Obituaries

Public Health restaurant inspection scores return Tuesday. Dining

Area arrest reports brought to you by Dr. Miniyar's Pediatrics. Crimewatch

Chick-fil-A Dwarf House Sports Report

Rome Braves get a 6-1 win over West Virginia.

 

Rematch today at 1 p.m. at State Mutual Stadium.

 

Latest from high school football.

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Please join our guests Monday including:

 

7:40 a.m. Dr. Chris Piller of Harbin Clinic Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine Rome on the July edition of Walk With a Doc.

 

8:10 a.m. Cassidy Carter from Floyd Healthcare Foundation on the upcoming NICU Rock-a-thon.