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![[VIDEO] Vehicle strikes pedestrian on Second Avenue Bridge](https://cdn.socast.io/9065/sites/10/2023/01/19161354/featured-Vehicle-vs-pedsestrian-jan-19-23-150x103.jpg)
January 19th, 2023 – 4:00 PM Ethan Garrett – WRGA Digital News Editor & Video Reporter – This preliminary report is subject to change as more information becomes available: On Thursday afternoon Floyd 911 dispatch reported that a vehicle versus pedestrian accident occurred on Second Avenue in the area near the levee. When first responders…… read more
![[VIDEO] Turner McCall bridge replacement could begin as early as next year](https://cdn.socast.io/9065/sites/10/2023/01/19144237/featured-bridge-replacement-150x103.jpg)
Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023–2:22 p.m. -David Crowder, WRGA News (Video by Ethan Garrett – WRGA) Work on the replacement of the Turner McCall Boulevard bridge over the Etowah River and Norfolk Southern Railroad is set to get underway next year, but it’s still unclear if that work will coincide with the widening of Second Avenue.…… read more
![[VIDEO] Ribbon-Cutting Event held for Parks Hoke Park Improvements](https://cdn.socast.io/9065/sites/10/2023/01/18154018/featured-Parks-Hoke-Park-2023-Ribbon-Cut-150x103.jpg)
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](https://cdn.socast.io/9065/sites/10/2023/01/16160645/featured-MLK-day-2023-150x103.jpg)
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
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](https://cdn.socast.io/9065/sites/10/2023/01/10120434/featured-Potter-indicted-texas-fugitive-150x103.jpg)
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](https://cdn.socast.io/9065/sites/10/2023/01/07181508/featured-one-for-the-chipper-2023-150x103.png)
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](https://cdn.socast.io/9065/sites/10/2023/01/05113010/featured-trail-goers-rome-150x103.png)
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
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
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