Category Archives: Video

[VIDEO] Ribbon-Cutting Event held for Parks Hoke Park Improvements

January 18, 2023

January 18th, 2023 – 3:30 PM Ethan Garrett – WRGA Digital News Editor & Video Reporter – Wednesday afternoon the community was invited to a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Parks Hoke Park on Hardy Avenue to celebrate recent improvements to the park. The new improvements to the park include a new basketball pavilion with a restroom…… read more

[VIDEO] 2023 Downtown Rome Freedom March & MLK Day Event

January 16, 2023

January 16th, 2023 – 3:30 PM Ethan Garrett – WRGA Digital News Editor & Video Reporter – Rome’s Martin Luther King Commission hosted its annual community Freedom March in downtown Rome on Monday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Participants met at the corner of First Avenue and marched down Broad Street together…… read more

Video: Man arrested at county commission meeting Tuesday

January 11, 2023

Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023–12:08 p.m. -John Bailey, Rome News-Tribune A former local bank president was arrested and charged with preventing or disrupting a lawful meeting or gathering when he refused to leave the podium after his time expired at a Floyd County Commission meeting. Mark Kenneth Swanson, 56, of Rome requested additional time to speak…… read more

[VIDEO] Texas Fugitive Indicted in Gordon County

January 10, 2023

January 10th, 2023 – 11:55 AM WRGA Staff Reports – 29-year-old fugitive Dalton Lee Potter of Leakey Texas has been indicted in Gordon County. Back on September 7th of 2020, Potter was pulled over on I-75 near the Whitfield-Gordon County line after a license plate scanner detected a trailer that had been stolen from Chattanooga.…… read more

[VIDEO] “Bring One for the Chipper” 2023

January 7, 2023

January 7th, 2023 – 4:00 PM Staff Reports – Saturday morning the Keep Rome Floyd Beautiful organization hosted the 2023 “Bring one for the Chipper” event at the Rome Home Depot. With the holiday season now over, locals brought out their natural Christmas trees and unloaded them with the help of volunteers. Keep Rome Floyd…… read more

[VIDEO] Rome Trail & Transportation Planning Departments Merge

January 5, 2023

January 5th, 2022 – 11:23 AM Doug Walker – City of Rome Julie Smith, longtime trails advocate, has been named as the new Transportation and Trails Planner in the Rome Floyd County Planning office. Learn more about upcoming plans for 2023 in the City of Rome’s video above:… read more

Video: Vehicle sought in connection with fatal crash has been identified

January 5, 2023

Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023–9:00 a.m. STAFF REPORTS Floyd County Police continue to investigate a fatal wreck Wednesday afternoon on Martha Berry Highway at Selman Road. The crash occurred just before 2 p.m. when a southbound Nissan Altima, driven by 37-year-old Hilda Santizo-Perez of Rome, was struck by an unknown vehicle causing it to careen into…… read more

FCPD responds to Two-Vehicle Wreck on Martha Berry Blvd and Selman Road

January 4, 2023

January 4th, 2023 – 3:40 PM Ethan Garrett – WRGA Digital News Editor & Video Reporter – These are the preliminary reports from WRGA News that are subject to change if more information should become available: On Wednesday afternoon 911 dispatch received reports of a serious accident on Martha Berry Blvd in the area near…… read more

[VIDEO] FCPD investigating Fatal Wreck on Martha Berry Blvd

January 4, 2023

January 4th, 2023 – 3:40 PM Ethan Garrett – WRGA Digital News Editor & Video Reporter – 4:49 pm UPDATE: One driver is dead following a crash on U.S. 27 at Rhinehart Equipment company. Police are looking for a large gray sedan that stopped but left the scene. The crash occurred just before 2 p.m.…… read more

Video: Cave Spring 2023 Polar Plunge

January 1, 2023

Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023–3:35 p.m. David Crowder – WRGA News More than 100 brave souls plunged into the New Year by jumping into the chilly waters of the Cave Spring swimming pool. The Cave Spring Polar Plunge has become a New Year’s Day Tradition. Although the air temperature Sunday was in the upper 60s, the…… read more