Category Archives: Floyd County

Rezoning application for data center at Plainville Road at Highway 53 withdrawn

Rezoning application for data center at Plainville Road at Highway 53 withdrawn

Thursday, February 6, 2025–4:45 p.m. -Staff reports- A rezoning application for a proposed data center at Highway 53 and Plainville Road across from the Lowe’s Distribution Center was withdrawn prior to Thursday’s Rome-Floyd Planning Commission meeting. Atlas Development Inc. made the application to rezone the property from Suburban Residential to Heavy Industrial. Plans submitted for…Continue Reading

GNTC’s Sargento is State EAGLE Award regional finalist

GNTC’s Sargento is State EAGLE Award regional finalist

Thursday, February 6, 2025–11:15 a.m. -GNTC News Release- Noelia Sargento, winner of Georgia Northwestern Technical College’s (GNTC) EAGLE Award for 2025, was selected as a regional finalist for the State EAGLE Award by the Technical College System of Georgia. Sargento learned that she was named a regional finalist at the recent 2025 Awards for GOAL,…Continue Reading

Man charged in machete assault

Man charged in machete assault

Thursday, February 6, 2025–11:11 a.m. -Floyd County Jail records- A Shannon man is accused of assaulting another man with a machete at his Barron Road residence on Wednesday. According to Floyd County Jail records: 40-year old Christopher Alan Carter cut the victim’s hand with the weapon. Carter also fired a shotgun and refused to obey…Continue Reading

Arrest reports for February 6

Arrest reports for February 6

Man charged with aggravated assault, motor vehicle theft A 30-year-old Celanese man was jailed on multiple charges following a reported altercation on Shorter Avenue Thursday morning. According to Floyd County Jail records: Stephen Kyle Ingram attempted to strangle a woman and left scratch marks on her leg. Ingram also disconnected the woman’s landline phone and…Continue Reading

Planning commission set to take up data center rezoning

Planning commission set to take up data center rezoning

Wednesday, February 5, 2025–11:30 a.m. -Diane Wagner, Rome News-Tribune- This story is possible because of a news-sharing agreement with the Rome News-Tribune. More information can be found at northwestgeorgianews.com Plans for another data center, on about 178 acres between Plainville Road and Ga. 53, will go before the Rome Floyd Planning Commission on Thursday. Atlas Development…Continue Reading

Warrant: Man disrupts adult education class, makes death threats

Warrant: Man disrupts adult education class, makes death threats

Wednesday, February 5, 2025–11:12 a.m. -Floyd County Jail records- A Garden Lakes man is accused of disrupting an adult education class at Georgia Northwestern Technical College in Rome by making aggressive gestures toward multiple students and threatening to kill people. According to an arrest warrant: 21-year-old Jordon Devonn Mitchell exclaimed, “Kill everyone, slit their throats;…Continue Reading

Arrest reports for February 5

Arrest reports for February 5

Wednesday, February 5, 2025–11:05 a.m. -Floyd County Jail records- Man accused of stealing water A Silver Creek man was arrested on Craton Road Tuesday on a felony count of theft of services. According to Floyd County Jail records: 75-year-old Bobby Gene Loveless bypassed a water meter in an attempt to obtain service without paying. The…Continue Reading

GNTC’s Greg Paulson wins the grand price on ‘Family Feud’

GNTC’s Greg Paulson wins the grand price on ‘Family Feud’

Wednesday, February 5, 2025–10:16 a.m. -News Release- Chef Greg Paulson, program director and instructor of the Culinary Arts program at Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC), and his family won the grand prize on “Family Feud.” Paulson, his wife Beth, and stepchildren Matthew, Keely, and Julie won a five-day run on the national television show and the grand…Continue Reading

Whitfield County murder suspect arrested in West Rome

Whitfield County murder suspect arrested in West Rome

Wednesday, February 5, 2025–8:33 a.m. -John Bailey, Rome News-Tribune- This story is possible because of a news-sharing agreement with the Rome News-Tribune. More information can be found at northwestgeorgianews.com GBI agents, the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office, and local law enforcement arrested an 18-year-old West Rome man at his home off Burnett Ferry Road on murder charges. …Continue Reading

Harbin Clinic’s Dr. Brad Bushnell is Doctor of the Day at State Capitol

Harbin Clinic’s Dr. Brad Bushnell is Doctor of the Day at State Capitol

Wednesday, February 5, 2025–8:05 a.m. -News Release- Brad Bushnell, M.D., M.B.A., an orthopedic surgeon at Harbin Clinic, was the Doctor of the Day on Tuesday at the State Capitol in Atlanta. The Medical Association of Georgia’s Doctor of the Day works in the Medical Aid Station at the State Capitol, where they provide free minor…Continue Reading