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93New spots
99New stories

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This week in Rome

Five picks from this week's calendar. See all 13 events, day by day →

Mount Aventine Bakery

Saturday 7am · Ridge Ferry Park · Free

Fallen Heroes Dice Run

Saturday 9am · Southern Devil Harley-Davidson

Sensory Saturday #1

Saturday 9am · Chieftains Museum/Major Ridge Home

Sunflower Harvest Festival

Saturday 10am · Rocky Hollow Patch

Roots

Saturday 10am · Roots at Bentley Lake

New in Rome

Places that opened, reopened, or earned a mention this month — the ones we'd go back to.

Foil&Co. Hair Salon

Beauty

Rome’s Aveda secret: Foil&Co. Hair Salon is the only official Aveda spot in town, using plant-powered color and treatments that leave hair healthy, shiny, and actually manageable.

foilandcohairsalon.com ↗

Snowberry's Grooming & Pet Boarding

Pets

Pamper your pup locally: Snowberry's Grooming & Pet Boarding has been Rome’s go-to since 1970 for regular and show grooming, nail trims, and breed-specific cuts, plus a dog daycare and hotel with climate-controlled indoor and outdoor play spaces.

snowberrysgrooming.com ↗

The Rail 3373

Restaurants

Swing, sip, repeat: Grab the crew and post up at The Rail 3373 for Full Swing Simulators that jump from virtual golf to darts to Zombie Dodgeball, then refuel with food and drinks.

therail3373.com ↗

Rome’s best businesses

Every spot worth knowing, in one place.

The restaurants, shops, and services the newsletter recommends, all in one place — every listing checked, and paid pins marked every time.

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Most read in Rome

The five stories Rome readers clicked most this month, from the daily editions.

  1. Police officer put on leave after shooting family’s pet donkey in the US

    A police officer in Rockmart, Georgia, has been placed on administrative leave after he shot and killed a family's pet donkey, HeeHaw, in the early hours of Sunday morning.

    Full story at theanimalreader.com ↗

  2. Baby donkey HeeHaw killed by trespassing cop: 'No way they thought they were in danger from tiny donkey'

    A baby donkey named HeeHaw was shot and killed by a Georgia police officer while he trespassed on his owner's property while searching for a missing child.

    Full story at us.headtopics.com ↗

  3. GBI investigating shooting involving Rome police officer near elementary school

    The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) is investigating a shooting involving a Rome police officer that led to a brief school lockdown and closed a nearby road.

    Full story at cbsnews.com ↗

  5. Enough fentanyl to kill 8,000 people pulled off the streets

    A traffic stop in Cartersville, Georgia, ended in the arrest of Jacobi Wilkey, a known drug trafficker known as JacobiWilkey, who was identified as a "known drug trafficked" by police as he was stopped for an expired registration.

    Full story at wsbtv.com ↗

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