Temple News

Parents of students at Temple High School attended the Carroll County Board of Education meeting Thursday to get their questions answered about the mercury found in the schoola s gymnasium and to air their concerns.

Temple High Schoola s gymnasium has been closed to students and the public since Oct.

What began as a cotton farm in the Center Point community near Temple eventually changed its focus to cattle over time, but the family working the property hasna t changed in more than 100 years.

Voter Registration Coordinator Janice Duff, left, Board of Elections Chairman James Gamble and Elections Supervisor Patti Brown-Traylor count the paper absentee ballots Tuesday before running them through the machine to be scanned during a recount of the Temple mayoral election.

Carroll County Elections Supervisor Patti Brown-Traylor said Friday she will order a recount in the Temple mayoral race that was decided by three votes.

In the end, it took the final tally of absentee ballots and early voting ballots to decide the heated Temple mayoral race and Mayor Rick Ford narrowly survived the challenge of former Mayor Lester Harmon.

Nine men - five of them from northeast Georgia - have been arraigned on federal fraud charges accusing them of tricking a Rome paper mill into paying $4.8 million for ``phantom loads'' of timber.

Although municipal elections historically draw little turnout and few people have cast a ballot as part of early voting over the past weeks, Carroll County election officials say todaya s election may draw a bigger crowd than expected because of the competitive nature of many of the races.

Oglethorpe County road department worker Neil Farnsworth, left, watches Joe McCannon excavate Friday where a section of Walter Sams Road was washed out from the recent heavy rains.

When Temple resident Tim Cedar came home from being out of town recently, the 79-acre lake that his home had previously overlooked was no longer there.

Temple resident Patrick Smith goes all out to entertain, and scare, the trick-or-treaters in his Villa Rosa neighborhood on Halloween.

The wife of a man running for the Temple City Council was assaulted on Wednesday while campaigning for her husband, according to police.

TEMPLE, Ga. (MyFOX ATLANTA - A heated city council race in the city of Temple has led to charges of racism and hateful language.

Villa Rica officials were working furiously Monday to fix the damage caused by massive amounts of overnight rain, but the chore was made more difficult as rain continued to fall throughout the day.

Carroll County Schools fund equity is dwindling as the economy takes its toll on the school systema s budget.

A collision involving a motorcycle and bicycle in LaGrange Friday has left two men dead.

Nearly two months after a tractor-trailer hauling $8.8 million in pharmaceutical drugs was stolen from a truck stop in Temple, the cab was recovered this week off of Interstate 20 in Madison.

Carroll County Elections Superintendent Patti Brown-Traylor has been preparing for the start of candidate qualifying which begins on Monday.

A recent visit by USDA officials found evidence of beaver activity in a Villa Rica section of the Little Tallapoosa River south of I-20. Less than six months after more than beavers were eradicated and their dams destroyed from a section of the Little Tallapoosa River in Villa Rica, there are signs that at least some beavers are again calling the ...

At the request of Superintendent John Zauner, Carroll County Board of Education members Monday agreed to cut the number of furloughs from three days to two-and-a-half days, using $70,000 in cash reserves and $167,000 in cuts in other areas.