More media: Watch the City Commission/Georgia Municipal Association presentation here. Also, Sen. Chuck Hufstetler will join us at 7:40 a.m. Thursday on the Hometown Headlines Radio Edition on WRGA 98.7 FM and online at wrga.streamon.fm. Media release: On Monday, Aug. 27, 2018, state Sen. Chuck Hufstetler (R-Rome) was honored with the “Champion of Georgia’s Cities” legislative… Read more
Floyd County’s elections and registration supervisor, Dr. Willie Green III, is leaving his post and the county seeks a “chief clerk” to run the department. The search officially closes on Dec. 31, well after the Nov. 6 general election. The county’s “help wanted” section seeks a candidate to “administer federal, state, and local… Read more
New Thursday: Hometown Headlines added a Twitter survey on the curfew. To see it, click here. New Tuesday: Hometown Headlines has filed an Open Records Request with the city of Rome regarding any and all data shared with city commissioners — in commission meetings and committee meetings — regarding juvenile crime concerns so far… Read more
The Floyd County Republican Party is teaming up with the state GOP party to open a regional field office in Rome later this month. The new office will be opening at 420 Broad St. inside the former Fricks Furniture building now owned by Fred Taylor, according to Andy Garner, Floyd GOP Chair. “This will be… Read more
The Floyd County Board of Education meets Tuesday, Aug. 7. Caucus begins at 5 p.m. in the superintendent’s office and the board meeting begins at 6 p.m. in the board room. Prior to caucus, the board will meet at 4:30 p.m. in the superintendent’s office for a closed meeting to discuss property and litigation… Read more
There’s no down time this election cycle. Just ask the candidates — even the ones running for sheriff in 2020. One example is Geoff Duncan, who won a bruising Republican primary runoff over David Shafer. A recount is expected but it is assumed Duncan will get the win. No matter, he was busy early Wednesday… Read more
On radio: Today’s Hometown Headlines Radio Edition on WRGA 98.7 FM and online at wrga.streamon.fm includes a 7:40 a.m. interview with Geoff Duncan, who edged his way to a win in the GOP primary runoff for lieutenant governor, and an expanded look at the results at 8:10 a.m. LATEST HEADLINES Brian Kemp pulled off the… Read more
The Democratic Party of Georgia will hold its 2018 State Convention to kick-off the General Election campaign on Saturday, Aug. 25. The convention will feature all of the Democratic nominees for statewide office. Local Democrats will have an opportunity to serve as delegates to the state convention. During their monthly meeting on Thursday, August 2, Floyd County… Read more
ABOUT ELECTION DAY: This has been a runoff we soon won’t forget, especially for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. The GOP race for lieutenant governor also got hot toward the end. SO FAR TODAY: -here’s the 2 p.m. count for select precincts today: 133 people at North Rome, 94 at Town Rome, 28 at South Rome,… Read more
Endorsements continue in GOP governor’s race as Trump backs Kemp, Deal supporting Cagle: The final days of the Casey Cagle-Brian Kemp battle for the Republican nomination to be Georgia’s next governor continues to be a blow-by-blow boxing match. One Monday, the state’s most highly regarded Republican, Nathan Deal, endorsed Cagle–a bit of a surprise… Read more
Georgia’s senior U.S.senator is standing with the intelligence community following President Trump’s statements about no Russian meddling in the 2016 president election. Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., posted the above Tweet Monday evening following Trump’s comments that enraged both parties. He was standing with Vladimir Putin when he said the doubts there was any Russian interference.… Read more
Friday morning, Floyd County sheriff’s candidate Tom Caldwell joined us on the Hometown Headlines Radio Edition on WRGA 98.7 FM to talk about his exit a week earlier and what’s next. Caldwell is continuing his campaign for sheriff, running as a Republican. In the interview, which is available above, Caldwell says he did not campaign… Read more
Campaign finance reports are in and for the six candidates on the fall ballot for two seats in the state Senate and one in the state House, a lot of the contributions are from political action committees. In fact, few individual donations of more than $100 are shown in the reports filed with the state… Read more
On radio: Mark Cochran of Cevian Design Lab, an avid watcher of the Supreme Court of the United States, joins us at 8:10 this morning on Hometown Headlines Radio Edition on WRGA 98.7 FM/online at wrga.streamon.fm with his reaction to Trump’s pick for the next justice. U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., on Brett Kavanaugh nomination… Read more
Update: Tom Caldwell issued the statement below Friday afternoon announcing his intentions to continue his campaign for Floyd Sheriff in 2020. From Floyd County Sheriff Tim Burkhalter: Today Floyd County Sheriff Chief Deputy Tom Caldwell was relieved of Command by me for Conduct unbecoming of an officer. Chief Deputy Caldwell had been ordered directly by me… Read more
As of noon Friday, total of 22 advance voters: That makes 197 total early voters since the start of voting on Monday. Friday’s final numbers were not available by the end of the day. Voting resumes Monday through July 20, on weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at both Floyd County Administration building… Read more
The Rome City Commission will discuss a resolution to put a public referendum on the November ballot to change Sunday pouring hours.Georgia’s new “Brunch Bill” (S.B. 17) would allow cities to change Sunday alcohol pouring times from 12:30 p.m. to 11 a.m. if approved by a referendum. The referendum proposal goes on first reading… Read more