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New charges following shooting death of 5-year-old in Bartow County.
Politics: Q&A with state House District candidates Katie Dempsey (incumbent) and Brad Barnes. Topics: Pandemic aftermath and Georgia's initial response.
Statewide death toll at 1,606 with 37,642 confirmed cases in Georgia, 786 in our area with 65 deaths. No remdesivir heading to NW Georgia so far.
Dining: Appalachian Grill reopens Tuesday with patio seating carry out. Blue Fin upgrades online/text ordering. Moe's BBQ: No in-house dining but porch, picnic tables available.
Your week ahead: Advance voting begins; drive-through/virtual high school graduations, Rome commission gets open-container proposal.
Ware Mechanical Weather Center: About a half-inch of rain today into Tuesday. Mid 70s Tuesday and Wednesday.
Rant of the Day: Time to recycle recycling.
In Cartersville this morning, things are a little bit greener. After a pandemic-imposed hiatus, recycling begins again in this city of 21,000-plus.
We were halfway to Cartersville on Saturday morning in our hunt to repurpose used plastic and aluminum cans. That midpoint was at Marglen Industries just off Calhoun Road and Ward Mountain Road amid one of the more beautiful landscape settings in our area.
The company has offered to accept plastics and aluminum cans while Rome and Floyd County continue to place recycling on hold for reasons we'll get to in a minute.
But also under consider by County Manager Jamie McCord and City Manager Sammy Rich is perhaps the potential to outsource some recyling duties to Marglen or Ira Levy's Paper Recovery operation. Apparently a money loser at best, city and county leaders are using the pandemic downtime to search for ways to at least offset some of those expenses.
It was part of a lengthy discussion with the joint services committee recently and on the agenda for a few others as well. It may have taken us some 50 years since the first Earth Day but we finally get it -- that recycling is a trend that helps the evironment and trims landfill costs. It is good to know no community leaders have expressed an interest in moving away from recycling despite those costs.
But with more things opening and a strong consumer push to be green, it is high time to recycle recycling in all of Northwest Georgia.
