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The Rome Public Works Committee has given its approval to the closing of the upper portion of Medical Drive off of Three Rivers Drive as part of the new Rome Middle School project.
The approval would be contingent on the
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The joint solid waste committee discusses landfill tipping fees Tuesday
Some members of the Rome-Floyd Solid Waste Committee think it may be time to look at an increase in tipping fees to address the issue of waste coming in f
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ROME, Ga. (AP) - An advisory committee says that a northwest Georgia statue of Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest should be placed inside a local museum.
The statue of Forrest, credited with being a founder of the Ku Klux Klan, was removed from its base in Rome‘s Myrtle Hill Cemetery in January. The Rome News-Tribune reports that City Commissioner Jamie Doss reported the recommendation of the committee to the full City Commission last week.
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“The committee likes the idea because they can tell the whole story (about Forrest),” Doss said. “They can tell the truth, the good and the bad.”
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