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Sunday, December 30, 2018

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 12/30/1968 to 1/5/1969

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The Christmas/New Year's holiday break came to an end for West Rome students as school resumed on Thursday, January 2nd. While there wer...
Friday, December 21, 2018

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 12/23/1968 to 12/29/1968

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Rome and Floyd County students celebrated a long holiday break. Both school systems were closed the week of Christmas and the week of New Ye...
Thursday, December 13, 2018

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 12/16/1968 to 12/22/1968

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Christmas was approaching fast, but West Rome students were still hard at work, since school was in session the entire week of December 15th...
Thursday, December 06, 2018

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 12/9/1968 to 12/15/1968

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After months of discussions about consolidating Rome's high schools into one inconveniently-located-for-everyone Rome High, the School B...
Saturday, December 01, 2018

Fifty Years Ag This Week in West Rome - 12/2/1968 to 12/8/1968

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Santa paid a visit to Rome on Monday night, December 2nd, to lead the annual Christmas Parade. The parade, which began at 6pm, started at Ba...
Sunday, November 25, 2018

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 11/25/1968 to 12/1/1968

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The Santa Bowl King and Queen were crowned at the Santa Bowl Mite & Pee Wee game held at Barron Stadium. While the winners weren't C...
Saturday, November 17, 2018

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 11/18/1968 to 11/24/1968

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West Rome kicked off its basketball season on November 23rd with an away game against Cartersville, and Coach Randall Kent was cautiously op...
Tuesday, November 06, 2018

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 11/11/1968 to 11/17/1968

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Romans awoke to surprise snow flurries on Monday morning, November 11th, and continued off and on through the day and into the early evening...
Friday, November 02, 2018

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 11/4/1968 to 11/10/1968

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Just as is the case this year, the election of 1968 also drew a record turnout of voters in Floyd County and in Georgia. Of course, the 1968...
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...
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