from press release

Bowdon native and Athens resident guitarist Rick Fowler will bring his band’s high-octane energy and soul – and a keyboard icon – to Carrollton’s Moonshadow Music Hall Saturday, May 9. The Rick Fowler Band’s expanded homecoming show will have no opening act.

by Carole Scott, StarNews

The necrotizing fasciitis contracted by 24-year-old University of West Georgia graduate student and an employee of the Sunnyside Cafe, Aimee Copeland, is most often caused by unusually strong strep bacteria. However, the flesh eating bacteria she acquired when she cut her calf badly as a result of falling when a homemade zip line on the Little Tallapoosa River in Carroll County broke was aeromonas hydrophila bacteria.

from press release: posted 9:32 p.m., 5/16/2012

This summer the Whitesburg Public Library will offer a full schedule of free programs for children, teens/tweens and adults. All ages will have opportunities to win prizes including a Nook Color, $25 gas cards, Quest Comics gift certificates, Whitesburg Water Park passes, Dollar General and Subway gift cards, books, stuffed animals and even a special lunch with Whitesburg Elementary School’s new principal, Jared Griffis.

All Carroll EMC offices will close Wednesday, May 16 to allow their entire staff to participate in a day of emergency training. During the one-day closing, please make payments at CEMC’s kiosks, automated phone payment system (770-832-3552) or pay onlineat www.carrollemc.com. To report a power outage, call 1-877-9-OUTAGE (1-877-968-8243) or report it online atwww.carrollemc.com.

by Sunny Kirby, StarNews

On May 8th, Villa Rica officer Kai Waldo responded to a call that a man with active warrants was seen at Villa Rica Tire, on Highway 78. Upon contact, the suspect, Larry Defoor, gave Officer Waldo a false name – Ray Anthony Palcher.
 

from press release

Pianist-composer Stanton Lanier will present a concert at the Carrollton Cultural Arts Center on Friday, May 4 at 7pm in the Danny Mabry Theatre. Tickets are $10 for all seats. The show will begin following the opening reception for gallery exhibitions featuring The Atlanta Artist Center in the Roush Gallery (a group show of Atlanta artists) and local artist Brian Mack in the Galleria.