Tag: September 3
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GALLERY: 2025 Polk County Fair
The Polk County Fair saw big crowds and a lot of fun for people of all ages from Wednesday, September 3 through Sunday, September 7. Check out photos from this year’s fair taken on September 3 and September 5, 2025:
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2025 Polk County Fair kicks off tonight!
Get ready for fun as PSD Night opens the 2025 edition of the Polk County Fair in Cedartown, a fundraiser for the Cedartown Exchange Club. Polk School District Students and Staff get in free to the fair when gates open at 5 p.m. The fair remains open tonight until 10 p.m. Fairgoers will have several…
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FINALLY FAIR TIME FOR 2025
Ah yes, the air is starting to feel crisp. The crops are closer to harvest time, and that must mean one thing: the Polk County Fair is back for 2025. Make sure to head out to the fairgrounds in Cedartown off the Highway 27 by pass at Cline-Ingram-Jackson Road between the nights of September 3…
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Skydive Spaceland Atlanta closes on Grady Road
Skydive Spaceland Atlanta – once the home of another skydiving business on Grady Road – announced that they have ceased operations for their metro area branch due to “economic challenges” they couldn’t overcome. The company based in Texas and Florida will continue providing jumps out of the Houston and San Marcos locations, and their Clewiston…
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County Commission hears from cities on sludge, but no movement for landfill change
What to do about municipal sludge? That remains a question where the positions so far haven’t changed on either side, and though there’s opportunity for some common ground it for the moment isn’t found at the landfill. City officials from Cedartown and Rockmart this past Tuesday came before the Board of Commissioners to bring back…
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Board of Education approves TAN resolution
The Board of Education during their Tuesday work session approved of a new Tax Anticipation Note resolution sought from Polk School District administration to help ensure that bills will be paid through year’s end. The resolution for the note for $5 million comes with a requirement that the money be used to pay the bills…
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Willard R. Williams Sr.
Mr. Willard R. Williams, Sr., age 72, of Rockmart, GA, passed away Tuesday, September 3, 2024. Willard was born in Dallas, GA, on September 10, 1951, a son of the late Claude E. (Edgar) Williams and Dollie Savannah Miller Williams. He had lived all his life in Rockmart and was a member of Morning View…
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PCSO: Four-Year-Old’s Death Being Investigated As a 2nd Degree Murder
A toddler’s death is being investigated as a homicide due to the negligence of a gun owner, according to a release from the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office late this afternoon following a Friday incident. Here’s the full release from the PCSO: Paulding Detectives arrest a local man on Second Degree Murder charges in the death…
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Polk Jail report – Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Officials from the Polk County Jail provide arrest reports on weekday mornings. Find the Tuesday, September 3, 2024 report below. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});
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Peaches and Junior are the Humane Society Pets of the Week. Humane Society Pets of the Week – September 3, 2023
Polk Today provides this weekly feature promoting dogs and cats up for adoption at the Cedartown Polk County Humane Society. Please consider providing these pets a loving home or tell those who might be interested about their availability. Peaches is an adorable little chihuahua girl that weighs about 10 pounds. She is a year and half old…