Tag: help
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Annual Thanksgiving meal returns to Rockmart on Nov. 15
An annual Thanksgiving tradition of help the community began as a family affair and is now backed by an organization is coming up in Rockmart next Saturday to help families in need or individuals who won’t have a place to go on Turkey Day have an opportunity to celebrate and enjoy a community meal. God’s…
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UPDATE: Mom located – Cedartown Police found child alone on Sixth Street seeking help locating parents
UPDATE: Not long after a text alert went out to phones after Cedartown Police and this item went up online, Chief Jamie Newsome called with good news: the mother of a child was located. Police found the child this morning on Sixth Street alone and officers brought him to the Cedartown Police Department office after…
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Big crowd gets help for school year’s start
Weather didn’t dampen the spirits or the need to help the community over the weekend for an annual Back to School event that drew hundreds to Cedartown. The Saturday event at the Boys and Girls Club in Cedartown hosted by Pryor to Success brought together organizations, clubs and help from donations to ensure that when…
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Pool players honor “Doc” and help his family
Ronald “Doc” Carter was once a fixture at area pool rooms and especially at Cedartown’s own Action Room Billiards. An unexpected tragedy took him too early from family and friends, who worked together to honor the longtime pool player in Polk County over the weekend with a charity tournament in his honor. Family members received…
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Officers injured during Saturday chase, suspect remains at large
Polk County Police and other local agencies got involved in a chase that began in Rockmart and ended suddenly when two Polk County Police cars were involved in a wreck on Highway 101 trying to get the suspect in Floyd County. A release from PCPD at midday noted that Officers John Chandler and Tre McDonald…
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UPDATE: Police seeking help contacting parents of child found in Johnson Lake area – Parents Found
Editor’s Note: Typically I would have posted an update about this immediately on the site, but instead was in transit at the time and forced to rely on the majority of readers to find the information via an update on Facebook. Apologies to those who missed the news at the time. – KtE UPDATE: The…
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GALLERY: Lusted captures more than 1,000 cats to help stray population
The Cedartown-Polk County Humane Society celebrated a volunteer who has made a real impact on the community’s stray population of cats over the past years. When Pat Lusted moved to Rockmart several years ago from Albany, New York, she was looking to help in some way with pets, and found her calling with the help…
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binary comment Cedartown United Fund: Thanks to Winn family for continued support
Local families are able to receive the help they need thanks to the continued efforts of the Cedartown United Fund, and one of their major contributors who continues to give even after earning their just reward. The fund in 2024 provided some 1,300 households in the Cedartown area with financial and other assistance via their…
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CPD: Report Aggressive Panhandling when encountered
A local resident recently reached out to Polk Today to share an experience with a woman in the Walmart parking lot with a history of sob stories to get a few bucks from well meaning folks in Polk. The reader who shared their story had their camera rolling as Theresa Lynn Duffey approached a vehicle…
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Karra Fennell and her children are in need of help after a house fire on Saturday night left them without any belongings. E-911 Dispatcher needs community help following house fire
A house fire on Saturday night ended with a Polk County E-911 dispatcher losing their home, and needing the community’s help now more than ever. Polk County Fire-Rescue responded to the house fire on Antioch Road on Saturday night, January 4 around 10:30 p.m., and found Karra Fennell’s residence on fire. After battling the blaze,…