ATLANTA – North Georgia Staffing is recruiting more than 30 employees to work at a manufacturing plant in Polk County. The Georgia Department of Labor (GDOL) will host a recruitment for the company Wednesday, June 1, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the GDOL’s Cedartown Career Center located atContinue Reading
Polk County Sheriff: John Wayne Anderson – 11.99% – 564 votes *Johnny Moats (I) – 88.01% – 4141 votes Polk County Commission District 2: Ray C Barber (I) – 43.25% – 1975 votes – HEADED TO RUNOFF Edward Phillip Bentley – 15.92% 727 votes Ricky L Clark – 11.87% –Continue Reading
Cedartown Police, along with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are looking into three separate shootings and are trying to determine whether or not they are related. The fatal shooting of 35-year-old Kenneth “Mudd” Albert early Sunday morning (May 22) is being investigated as a homicide. A neighbor who stopped byContinue Reading
The polls opened this morning at 7:00 a.m. and will remain available until 7:00 p.m. tonight as a record turnout is expected in the Polk County Primary Election. For the first time since Reconstruction, the countywide election is exclusively Republican, as no Democrats qualified for any county office. Unlike inContinue Reading
PRESS RELEASE The Cedartown Police Department along with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are investigating the shooting death of a 35-year-old Cedartown man. Kenneth Sheldon Albert was found dead this morning inside his home at 137 Barnes Alley in Cedartown.Continue Reading
More details have been released in the fatal single vehicle accident that claimed the life of two Cedartown men. According to Sgt. Joseph Stephens of the Georgia State Patrol, a 1993 Geo Tracker was traveling south on Cave Spring Road at about 7:00 p.m. Thursday evening when the driver negotiatedContinue Reading
A long time judge, accomplished author, and World War II hero is being remembered this week after he died on Tuesday. He was 94. According to his obituary, Judge Winn was born in Douglasville, Georgia, on September 19, 1921. He entered the military service as a Naval Aviation Cadet inContinue Reading
ATLANTA – One lucky man is jumping for joy since purchasing a winning Georgia Lottery instant ticket worth $50,000 in Cedartown. Jay Lovell of Ashville, Ala., played the popular instant game Jumbo Bucks Classic to win his top prize. “I’m shocked,” he said. “I went for a Powerball ticket butContinue Reading
UPDATED 5/13/16 – 6:03 a.m. According to Polk County Coroner Tony Brazier, Donald Pittman, Jr., and William Jeremy Beck, both age 28 & both of Cedartown, were pronounced dead on the scene at 8 pm Thursday night on Cave Spring Road near Friendship Rd. Both men were ejected after theContinue Reading
The most unlikely of comebacks was completed by the Cedartown Bulldogs in the first game of a Tuesday night double header that propelled them to a series sweep and a birth in the GHSA Class 3A Final Four for the first time in 22 years.Continue Reading