Payne News

This coming school year, many teachers across Georgia will be teaching a common core of instructional standards that nearly every state in the country has adopted.

Juniors and seniors at both Twiggs County Middle High School and Twiggs Academy recently completed in the first annual Richard Lynn Daniels Traffic Safety Essay Challenge.

Any time a student is given a chance to try again, it’s a good thing. That’s the thought process behind a new offering to allow high school students to retake End Of Course Tests, area school officials said.

Avondale Estates resident and World War II veteran Denis Payne talks about his time in the military while sitting near memorabilia on display in his home.

Taken from the 50 Years Ago column of the Thursday, July 27, 1961, edition of the Rome News-Tribune City Council voted to abolish the Board of Public Works after such a group was tested for more than three years.