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Saturday, November 28, 2015

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 11/29/1965 to 12/5/1965

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Interest was so high in the Georgia Class AA football championship game slated for Saturday night in Atlanta that West Rome officials announ...
Saturday, November 21, 2015

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 11/22/1965 to 11/28/1965

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Preface “Why do you spend so much time writing this every week?” The young woman asking me the question wasn’t being rude—just curious. It d...
Saturday, November 14, 2015

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 11/15/1965 to 11/21/1965

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The final equipment for West Rome’s new state-of-the-art industrial arts shop arrived and the program shifted into high gear this week in 19...
Saturday, November 07, 2015

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 11/8/1965 to 11/14/1965

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Back in 1965, almost all phone calls between Rome and Atlanta were carried on a single phone cable—so when a construction company cut that c...
Monday, November 02, 2015

The Passing of a Friend

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I wasn't a close friend to Mark. Still, he was my friend, and he was a good man with a kind heart and a generous spirit, and he shouldn...
Friday, October 30, 2015

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 11/1/1965 to 11/7/1965

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The annual East Rome-West Rome football game generated more than the usual excitement in 1965, because this game would determine not merely ...
Friday, October 23, 2015

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 10/25/1965 to 10/31/1965

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Just imagine if all these planned interstates had come to fruition: the Rome-Floyd County Chamber of Commerce announced that talks were unde...
Saturday, October 17, 2015

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 10/18/1965 to 10/24/1965

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West Rome took on the Rossville Bulldogs in an away game on Friday, October 22nd; the Chieftains lost 27-14--but considering how every progn...
Saturday, October 10, 2015

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 10/11/1965 to 10/17/1965

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One of the advantages of having multiple community-focused high schools rather than one high school located in the hinterlands: members of t...
Saturday, October 03, 2015

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 10/4/1965 to 10/10/1965

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The Chiefs fell 20-14 to the top-rated Kingsport team on October 8th in an away game played in Kingston, TN. "We were outmanned," ...
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