Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Heavy rain, 35-mph gusts due today from Fred. WinShape buys Legacy Marketing building. Cotton Block anchors up for auction. Hospital COVID cases climb; latest campus updates. 5 qualify for Rome ballot so far.

Heritage First Headlines

  • Ware Mechanical Weather Center: Latest updates on the impact of Tropical Storm Fred across Northwest Georgia today.
  • Business: WinShape paying $2.97 million for former Legacy Marketing campus off Technology Parkway.
  • Two Cotton Block buildings, parking lot just off Broad and Second up for auction Sept. 16.
  • Monday:170 COVID patients in Rome, Cartersville, Calhoun hospitals; 8 others awaiting tests. Another Bartow virus death. 981 people got first vaccination dose since Friday. Kemps offers packed hospitals additional support.
  • COVID on campus: Floyd would close a school if staffing became an issue because of the pandemic; no schools at that point Monday. Last reports: 156 virus cases at Polk, Floyd, Rome, Calhoun and Cartersville schools as well as 12 at Berry (staff, summer students).
  • Qualifying: 3 incumbents, 2 newcomers seek Rome Board of Education seats; familiar face first to qualify for Rome City Commission.
  • Obituaries: Mrs. Aretha "Rita" Harris, Ms. Alice Haney Morrow, Ms. Melissa "Kay" Reddish, Mrs. Jeanette Roberson.
  • Dining: Public Health restaurant inspection scores, Tuesday-Saturday.
  • Crimewatch brought to you by Big Dan's Car Wash. Updates on arrests.

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Harbin Clinic Headlines: Meet Dr. Ademola Adeseye, who joins Harbin Clinic Cardiothoracic Surgery and will begin seeing patients August 16. Dr. Adeseye is one of the 10 doctors joining Georgia's largest privately owned, physician-led healthcare community.

 


  • Rome Braves open final month of the season at home tonight.
  • Atlanta Braves at Marlins tonight.
  • Atlanta Falcons announce 100% vaccination rate. High school football notes; at Miami Saturday night.
  • John McClellan's high school predictions. McClellan
  • Tillman 5K this Saturday; what to know.

 

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