Rockmart News

Bill Wanke, with Ceramics by Cheryl of Temple, Ga., sets up some of the pottery and other crafts hand painted by his wife, Cheryl Wanke Friday afternoon at Seaborn Jones Park in downtown Rockmart.

Gas prices are finally starting to ease up at the pump, though it's not much. Regular unleaded gasoline could be purchased in Cedartown this afternoon for as low as $3.94 at Kroger for reuglar unleaded.

Rockmart Fire and Emergency Services personnel join property owners in assessing the storm damage at 218 Bluff St.

A project, totaling $2,166,000, will soon begin in Rockmart's Goodyear Village. The scope of work will include sewerage system improvements and sewer rehabilitation and will be done in three phases.

Bill Wanke, with Ceramics by Cheryl of Temple, Ga., sets up some of the pottery and other crafts hand painted by his wife, Cheryl Wanke Friday afternoon at Seaborn Jones Park in downtown Rockmart.

Julian Welch enjoys riding his four-wheeler. slideshow Julian Welch, an upcoming seventh-grader, loves playing football and basketball.

From The Polk Fish Wrap Thousands expected at Homespun Festival in downtown Rockmart Thousands are expected to arrive at Seaborn Jones Park in Rockmart Friday and Saturday, July 18-19, for an experience they ...

Preliminary results from Tuesday's General Primary election painted a portrait of disappointment for an incumbent, long-serving county commissioner.

Voters are trickling into precincts in Rockmart and Aragon with only a light turnout seen by 10 a.m. today.

Mark Mettler entered Grady Memorial Hospital on March 1, straight from the sky. He was flown in from Rockmart after a parachute jump that went horribly wrong.

Roy and Elaine Anderson will be the grand marshal of the 2008 Homespun Festival Parade, scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 19 in Seaborn Jones Park, downtown Rockmart.

Police say a registered sex offender from Georgia confessed to killing a 13-year-old girl whose body was discovered by a maid in a hotel room.

An old home on South Piedmont Avenue, which at one time housed The Rockmart Journal, is no more.

Complaints against two Gwinnett County teachers accused of trying to help students cheat on a standardized test were among several cases sent to a state ethics agency recently.

A tree limb fell across a power line around 1:15 p.m. today, cutting power to around 1,350 Rockmart customers.

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Authorities are trying to determine the cause of death of an 11-year-old Paulding County boy.

U.S. Marshals said Thursday that their search for a convicted child molester in Metro Atlanta is their top priority.

Rockmart Police Chief Larry Harris, seated, talks with Deputy Chief John Adams about impact the economy can have on crime.

A manufacturing firm, which is expected to bring up to 80 jobs to Polk County, is nearing final agreement to purchase the 100,000 square foot speculative building in the Rockmart 101 Industrial Park.