Progress 2012
- Progress 2012: Health
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Northwest Georgia Healthcare Partnership seeks to improve community health status
Nancy Kennedy, the Northwest Georgia Healthcare Partnership’s executive director, at the 2003 Healthcare Classic. The Healthcare Classic was named the Bill Gregory Healthcare Classic in 2007 after the late Dr. Bill Gregory, who was killed in a tragic cycling accident on Fort Mountain. Kennedy has served as the partnership’s only executive director. (Contributed photo)
Imagine 30 leaders of business and industry, health care providers, local government, education and public health volunteering to put aside their personal agendas.
Continued ... - North Ga. Health District makes an impact on region: Initiatives include helping people with STDs, restaurant inspections
- Murray County has rallied behind hospital many times
- Changing doctors: Practice of medicine evolves over the decades
- Hamilton Health Care System: From small community hospital to innovative health delivery system
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- Progress 2012: Business
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The story of carpet: In late 1800s, Dalton nurtured the tufted textile industry
H.C. Ball, right, inspects the frame in this contributed photo from the 1960s. (Contributed photo)
The carpet industry in the United States began in 1791 when William Sprague started the first woven carpet mill in Philadelphia. Others opened during the early 1800s in New England. Included in that area was Beattie Manufacturing Co. in Little Falls, N.J., a company that operated until 1979.
Continued ... - Lauding our leaders: Junior Achievement to induct four into Hall of Fame
- Peacock Alley has long history, about to make more
- Jordan’s journey: Man explores his family’s ancestry, learns about links to Georgia’s history
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- Progress 2012: Quality of Life
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Return of the Roadrunners: Dalton State College seeks to reclaim exciting, winning basketball program
Dalton Junior College boasted an exciting basketball team in the late 1960s and 1970s. The Roadrunners became a national power in their league during the 1971-72 season, sporting a 35-2 record and frequently scoring more than 100 points per game. (Contributed photo)
In an area known more for carpet weaving skills and the success of its high school football players, there was a time when Dalton was also known as the home of one of the most colorful, successful and mythic basketball programs in the state.
Continued ... - 150 years strong: Mineral Springs United Methodist Church to celebrate sesquicentennial this summer
- Greenways could help revitalize one of Dalton’s oldest neighborhoods
- Speed and survival: Chatsworth track seeks to become hotspot again
- The Creative Arts Guild: Enriching expressive and cultural experiences
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- Progress 2012: Salute To Murray
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‘From the cliffs of old Cohutta’: Murray’s historic Rock Building restored to its original glory
The original faculty at Murray County High School: front row, from left, Ruby Henderson, Pauline Ogletree, Lula Gladden, Irene Chambers and Leota McDonald; second row from left, Herbert Rogers, Rolond Carter, L.N. Foster (principal), G.I. Maddox and Jack Greeson; third row from left, Julian Keith, Elswick Keith and Edward Chapman. (Photos courtesy of Whitfield-Murray Historical Society)
Helen Taylor was a bit frightened, but still very excited to be entering Murray County High School.
Continued ... - ‘Pretty hard work’: Heyday of logging in the Cohuttas
- The Wright Hotel: ‘A museum of a most unusual type’
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