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Friday, October 26, 2018

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 10/28/1968 to to 11/3/1968

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The West Rome football team went into the week one game behind crosstown rival East Rome in Region 7-AA... and that meant that West Rome had...
Friday, October 19, 2018

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 10/21/1968 to 10/27/1968

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Head football coach Nick Hyder announced that Jimmy Edwards (who had served as the Chieftains' quarterback in 1967 but had been moved to...
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Friday, October 12, 2018

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 10/14/1968 to 10/20/1968

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A study of the Rome City Schools told us what a lot of us already suspected: the schools on the west side of town fared better than schools ...
Saturday, October 06, 2018

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 10/7/1968 to 10/13/1968

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Rome City Schools received Headstart Program approval for the current school year. The approval came almost two months after the school year...
Sunday, September 30, 2018

Gray Rocks

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Erin Gray once came to my house and gave me a piece of the moon.  Yeah, I know it sounds weird, but it's true! Gray is most fondly rem...
Friday, September 28, 2018

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 9/30/1968 to 10/6/1968

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Now this is fast-tracking: just a week after the Board of Regents approved the proposal for a junior college in Floyd County contingent on ...
Friday, September 21, 2018

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 9/23/1968 to 9/29/1968

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The week began with only three undefeated high school football teams in this part of Northwest Georgia: West Rome, Trion, and Chattooga. Tha...
Friday, September 14, 2018

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 9/16/1968 to 9/22/1968

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The 20th annual Coosa Valley Fair kicked off its six-day run-on Monday, September 15th; the vocal group the Ink Spots took part in the openi...
Sunday, September 09, 2018

Life in Four Colors Sidebar - Believe It Or Not...

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I love comics. That's no secret. I've owned tens of thousands of comics in my lifetime. What may be surprising, though, is what I ...
Friday, September 07, 2018

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 9/9/1968 to 9/15/1968

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It was midterm primary time this week in 1968, but apparently no one noticed: the vote turnout was estimated at only 8%. Local officials bla...
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