Thursday, January 10, 2013
Increased police presence at local schools will become part of everyday operations in wake of the Newton, CT, tragedy.
Despite the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre occurring a month ago, area school districts aren't quite ready to return to a sense of normalcy. School districts continue to implement forms of heightened security in the tragedy's aftermath. Both Bartow County and Cartersville City schools continued with its increased police presence on their campuses when their second semester got underway earlier this week. Cartersville Police Capt. Mark Camp said officers will continue patrolling city schools and surrounding areas for the remainder of the school year. Also, three school resource officers—two at Cartersville Middle School that also handle incidents at the primary and elementary school and one at Cartersville High School—will also …
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
The sheriff's office will provide firearms training to at least 400 people in Cartersville as, across the region, interest in firearms soars following the school shooting in Newtown, CT.
Requests for firearms licenses in Bartow County have spiked since the mass shooting at Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School that killed 20 students and six adults. The local Probate Court, which issues Georgia Weapons Carry Licenses, normally averages 120 applications a month, Chief Clerk Rhonda Clark said. "In the three weeks since the shooting in Newtown, we have had 365 applications," she told Cartersville Patch on Tuesday. "It would be more if our LiveScan fingerprinting system had not went down for several days." Clark said her office is averaging about 40 applications a day when normally it receives only about four per day. Gun sales and permit requests have surged across metro Atlanta due to fears of mass violence and …
Monday, January 7, 2013
Three weeks after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, CT, Cartersville City and Bartow County schools students return to school from the holiday break.
As Newtown, CT, officials prepare to open the discussion on the fate of the Sandy Hook Elementary School building where a lone gunman killed 20 students and six adults, local authorities plan to continue their focus on the safety of schools. Cartersville City and Bartow County schools students Tuesday return from the holiday break. They'll go back to a continued police presence in and around local schools. Following the Dec. 14 mass shooting, the Cartersville Police Department and Bartow County Sheriff's Office, along with the Georgia State Patrol, increased patrols in school zones for the week remaining before holiday break. Police will continue their patrols of the city schools and surrounding areas for the remainder of the school year, …
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Patch bloggers and commentators in and around Cartersville and throughout Georgia offer their thoughts on last week's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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Sunday, December 23, 2012
The shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, last week spread grief and turmoil across the country, including to towns and neighborhoods throughout metro Atlanta and north Georgia. Many of Patch's contributors have responded with thoughtful and thought-provoking posts to continue the local conversation about what the mass murder of children and their teachers means, and how we should respond. Here is a glimpse at some of their blogs and opinion pieces, in case you missed them: Michael Tanner on asking the "tough questions" of God: Here's a thought. If you truly want to know where God was on the morning of the Newtown, CT school shooting; why don't you just ask Him? Why don't you just dust off your Bible, humble yourself to your knees, bow your …
Saturday, December 22, 2012
A Cartersville City Schools board member and Cherokee Judicial Circuit public defender called attention to the issue on Facebook. We need new ideas. What are yours?
In the wake of the tragedy that took the lives of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, a blogger from across the country was arguably the first to break through the noise and galvanize a debate around mental health. Liza Long’s blog post about raising a mentally ill child, "I Am Adam Lanza’s Mother," talks about her experiences raising her 13-year-old son, whom she describes as a gifted but unpredictable child who has threatened to kill her and himself. As she put it, “I love my son. But he terrifies me." Her blog post quickly went viral, got picked up by the The Huffington Post and others, earned a million likes on Facebook, and led to Long's appearance on CNN to talk about the way mental illness is …
"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," the NRA's Wayne LaPierre said.
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Saturday, December 22, 2012
In an amazing Friday morning press conference in Washington DC, the National Rifle Association broke its weeklong silence following the horrific shooting of 26 people at a school in Newtown, CT, and called for a surge of gun-carrying "good guys" around American schools. NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre called for a new kind of American domestic security revolving around armed civilians, arguing that "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." "We care about our president, so we protect him with armed Secret Service agents," LaPierre said. "Members of Congress work in offices surrounded by Capitol Police officers. Yet, when it comes to our most beloved, innocent, and vulnerable members of the …
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Cartersville Patch and Patch sites nationwide will participate in an online moment of silence in memory of the victims of the school shooting in Newtown, CT.
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
Cartersville Patch and other Patch sites will go dark at 9:30 this morning. And so will thousands of other websites across the country. Patch and other online companies are taking part of an online moment of silence in memory of the victims of last Friday's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. The event will last one minute. As of 6 p.m., more than 130,000 people took the pledge on Causes.com. Websites wishing to participate can embed a green ribbon on their site, like the one you see in this article. Twitter users are also asked to use the hashtag #momentforSandyHook to show their support. Online entities can also visit webmomentofsilence.org for a JavaScript code to automatically darken their site at 9:30 a.m. The …
Churches across Cartersville and Bartow County will ring their bells 26 times at 9:30 a.m. in memory of the 20 students and six adults that died in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Cities across the country are encouraging local churches to remember the 20 children and six adults who died a week earlier in a Connecticut school shooting.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Updated Thursday, 12 p.m. Bartow County Commissioner Clarence Brown today released this statement: "On Friday, Dec. 21, at 9:30 a.m., local churches throughout the county will join in unison to ring their bells 26 times in memory of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy. "Commissioner Brown invites all county employees that wish to participate to recognize this solemn event with a moment of silence as the bells ring." Original Report Cartersville is one of many cities in Georgia encouraging its local churches to ring bells Friday in memory of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. A lone gunman claimed the lives of 20 children, ages 6 and 7, and six adults, including the principal and a …
Monday, December 17, 2012
Cartersville and Bartow County schools also are set to review safety plans after the killing of 20 students and six adults at a Newtown, CT, elementary school.
Local authorities are increasing patrols and police presence around schools in Cartersville and Bartow County following Friday's mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. A total of 27 people were killed—20 students, ages 6 and 7; six adults at the school, including the principal and a counselor; and the mother of the lone gunman who took his own life, Newtown Patch reports. Bartow County Schools Police Chief Dan Knowles said he's asked staff members to ensure local schools are secure and prepare for emergencies. "The staff members see those building every day," said Knowles. "If there's a door that won't lock, if there's an intercom problem, if they need a new radio, anything along that line, let's start looking at …
wyle jones
11:05 am on Thursday, January 10, 2013
I have an idea! Since most police depts. have a posse or similar volunteer deputies,why not let them disperse to all schools and to be armed. I`d volunteer in aaheart beat more ›