Felton News

Local author Mary Duncan poses with her book, Young Love and Tragedy, outside the Cedartown Standard office A new book with the story set in the Felton community is completely fiction, but is so close to real world issues that it could seem true, according to its author Mary Duncan.

A tornado ripped through Haralson County just north of Buchanan on March 2; one of the most powerful storms to hit the area in a year, yet causing only one serious injury and causing major damage to only a few buildings.

A severe thunderstorm skirted Polk County Friday night, with reports of a few trees downed in the southern part of the county, but no structural damage.

Updated 8:45 p.m. The National Weather Service has issued a tornado warning for Cherokee, Cobb and Paulding counties, effective until 9:40 p.m. A collapsed house is being reported in Haralson County in the storm's trail, and 11Alive says people on the ground west of Dallas reported seeing a tornado.

On Wednesday, December 28, 2011, Polk County police arrested Randal Fred Shuemake , age 52 of McKibben Road in Felton, Ga.; on multiple charges related to the operation of a chop shop.