New lighting is coming to the old football field at the Nathan Dean Community Center, and heat and air units are being replaced at the city’s gymnasium at the J.L. Ellis City of Rockmart Complex in…
Firefighters on Tuesday got a chance to smile and the city got to show its appreciation for lifesaving efforts that were taken on as a team last month. Early on in March, Rockmart firefighters got a…
Officials from the Polk County Jail provide arrest reports on weekday mornings. Find the Tuesday, April 14, 2026 report below.
Thelma Joyce “Joy” Elliott, age 55, of Rockmart, GA, passed away Monday afternoon, April 14, 2025. Joy was born in Atlanta, GA, on November 18, 1969, daughter of Thelma Joyce Barrett Collins and the late Anthony…
Officials from the Polk County Jail provide arrest reports on weekday mornings. Find the Monday, April 14, 2025 report below.
Don’t expect opening until end of next month Well, the workers are getting there on a bridge project in Cedartown. The replacement of the span over a branch of Cedar Creek remains underway as much of…
Contract rescinded in April 16 Special Session Polk School District Police Department’s Chief on Thursday was credited for the booking of a Cedartown High School football and track coach who was charged with improper sexual contact,…
Reverend Nathan Wesley Forrister, Sr., age 88, of Bremen passed away on Sunday, April 14, 2024. He was born in Cedartown on October 12, 1935. Reverend Forrister was the son of the late, J. Coleman Forrister…
A second individual was taken into custody and later released on bond after being arrested by the Drug Task Force on charges in connection with the search of a Spruce Street house this month, according to…
Mrs. Lynda C. Royer, age 71, of Dallas, GA, passed away Friday, April 14, 2023, at her residence. Lynda was born in Chamblee, GA, on September 5, 1951, daughter of the late James Virgil Carter, Jr.…
