As the school year starts on August 8, the Polk School District Board of Education will be down one member as one of the newest board members tendered his resignation at Tuesday’s school board meeting in Cedartown. Hal Floyd, who soundly defeated former school board chairman Harold McDurmon in theContinue Reading

MEDIA RELEASE ATLANTA (July 27, 2017) | Earlier this month, Sen. Bill Heath (R – Bremen) was elected President of the Executive Council of the National Assembly of Sportsmen’s Caucuses (NASC). The NASC is a program of the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation (CSF). NASC provides the platform for members to protectContinue Reading

The unemployment rate for Polk County checked in at 5.5% in June which was up slightly from 5.3% in May but down from 6.3% from 12 months earlier. Polk is tied with Floyd County for the second highest unemployment rate in Northwest Georgia, while Murray County had the highest unemployment rateContinue Reading

MEDIA RELEASE Polk County, GA – Three (3) people were arrested and charged with crimes related to possession, of images of child pornography and other violations of Georgia laws after a several week long investigation by the Polk County Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division, Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s Child ExploitationContinue Reading

Police are searching for a teen who reportedly ran away from the Murphy-Harpst Children’s Center last week. According to police reports, the child, listed as Natalie Shai Baker, 16, was in state custody at the children’s home and was reported missing on May 27. The family of Baker, who livesContinue Reading