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Horses jump the hurdles Saturday in the 46th annual running of the Atlanta Steeplechase at Kingston Downs. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News
@White=[C] Bartow Village spotlights community at 48th Steeplechase
@White=[C] The 48th annual Atlanta Steeplechase saw a brand-new addition this year in the form of Bartow Villiage, a pavillion featuring the best of Bartow County and what it has to offer. Organiz...
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BCSO part of state child porn bust
As a result of a three-month investigation led by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, search warrants were executed this week in 37 Georgia coun...
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'Play On!' opens Friday at The Legion Theatre
With four decades of community theater experience, Teresa Harris can easily relate to the characters in Rick Abbot’s “Play On!” Opening Friday, The Pumphouse Players’ production is a comedy about a...
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Euharlee students stack up against the competition
Euharlee Elementary School students Bailey Hynes, Dylan Ferguson and Leah Stantz in recent months have traveled to Maryland and Orlando to compete in sport cup stacking championship competitions. A...
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Heatco worker Andres Ortegon swages tubes during Thursday’s Manufacturing Appreciation Week industry tour. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News
Manufacturing Appreciation Week puts focus on producers
Each April, Georgia celebrates the economic impact of businesses in the manufacturing arena. The creation of components or end-use products has historically been a major employer and tax base for B...
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DTF busts business behind drug sales
Behind the pool tables and video gambling machines, officials say a local business was operating a trade of a different sort. In an operation stemming from a three-month investigation, 12 agents fr...
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Dinner dispute leads to assault with a fork
Hide the silverware. An Acworth woman on Wednesday wielded a fork after an argument over dinner went awry. Lisa Mills allegedly began arguing with a family member over the meal about 7:15 p.m. when...
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Adairsville council OKs McDonald's expansion
Despite previous objections from a neighboring church, the Adairsville City Council voted unanimously Thursday to allow a McDonald’s restaurant to reduce the buffer between the two properties from ...
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Cartersville Elementary School Principal Ken MacKenzie sits in a chair while Southern BMX rider Mike Green sails over his head. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News
Test prep includes positive thinking
Next week, third- through eighth-grade students will begin taking their annual Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests. In an effort to encourage Cartersville Elementary School students to meet their...
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Bonnie Plant Manager Daniel Dawson, right, leads Leadership Bartow participants on a tour of the facility. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News
Leadership Bartow looks inside Ga.'s largest industry
As the Leadership Bartow class of 2013 wraps up with the final of eight program days held each month since September, the leadership development program finished the year with a look at the state’s...
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U.S. Marine veteran Mac McQuown stops by Cartersville Fire Station 4 and talks with firefighters and Fire Chief Scott Carter, far right. McQuown spent Wednesday night at the station before beginning his trek north to Dalton today. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News
Veteran's 15,000-mile journey passes through Bartow
A hero’s welcome awaited Mac McQuown Wednesday afternoon at Cartersville Fire Station 4. The U.S. Marine Corp veteran, carrying a large American flag, walked into Cartersville via U.S. Highway 41 j...
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Severe weather moves in today
Strong storms associated with a cold front will sweep through the area today and into Friday. An upper level system and the associated cold front will approach the state today and push through over...
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Stilesboro Academy, 1903 courthouse focus of EVHS program
Known for their historic value, the Stilesboro Academy and the 1903 Bartow County Courthouse will take center stage Tuesday. By highlighting the structures, the Etowah Valley Historical Society wil...
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Pictured with his mother Joyce Krug, Eric Krug, who was a college baseball standout, got into a car with a drunk driver and it changed his life forever. The mother and son shared the story at Woodland High School, which will join other area schools celebrating their proms. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News
Prom campaign focuses on positive 'Decisions'
Sixteen years ago, Eric Krug went from being a college athlete at Oglethorpe University to being confined to a wheelchair or walker without the use of his voice and much of his right hand, due to a...
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Mona Lewis listens to Bartow County 4-H member Isaac Griner explain the sport of modified trap shooting. Bartow County 4-H members made poster presentations at Tuesday evening’s Cooperative Extension open house at the Olin Tatum Agricultural Building. SKIP BUTLER/The Daily Tribune News
Cooperative Extension hosts open house

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